Consultant Gastroenterologist

Are you ready to take your career to the next level while achieving the perfect work-life balance? At North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, we offer the ideal environment for ambitious professionals to thrive.

You'll have the opportunity to work alongside an inspiring, passionate team, enhance your medical research skills, and boost your clinical confidence all while making a real difference in the lives of our patients.

We're looking for enthusiastic, innovative Consultants who are eager to make an impact. Join us as we expand and enhance our Gastroenterology Services to meet the evolving needs of the communities we serve. As part of our renowned Postgraduate Medical Education Centre, you'll benefit from our close links with prestigious institutions like Leicester and Cambridge, giving you access to outstanding training and development.

Our JAG-accredited Endoscopy units offers opportunities for hands-on learning across a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. You will have the chance to lead the development of exciting new services like Endoscopic Ultrasound and the expansion of our IBD services.

At North West Anglia, we truly believe in a flexible, healthy work-life balance. Whether you prefer to work full-time, part-time, or on a job-share basis, we're open to finding the right arrangement for you.

Want to know more or have an informal chat? Reach out to Dr. Phil Roberts, Clinical Lead for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at .

Main duties of the job

You'll work 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week, comprising 8.5 PAs of direct clinical care and 1.5 PAs for supporting professional activities. Within your first three months, you'll sit down with us to craft a tailored job plan that reflects your professional goals and aspirations. We're happy to be flexible, so if you want to adjust your PA allocation, we can discuss that too.

In this role, you'll join a collaborative, forward-thinking Gastroenterology team, working closely with our Hepatology experts to deliver exceptional inpatient and outpatient care. You'll lead weekly outpatient clinics and have the flexibility to take time off or receive additional payment for covering extra duties when agreed in advance.

We'll ensure you have full administrative and secretarial support, so you can focus on what really matters: providing outstanding care, teaching, and mentoring. You'll also be involved in audit, governance, and mortality/morbidity reviews helping to drive continual improvements across the service.

As a Consultant, you'll be at the forefront of patient care, expected to uphold the highest standards of practice, while adhering to Trust policies on patient safety and infection prevention.

About us

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust provides acute care to our local communities via two District General Hospitals in Peterborough and Huntingdon, and a community hospital in Stamford.

We are promoting flexible working and a health work/home life balance. Agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
• In-house Physiotherapy Services
• Career development and training opportunities
• Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
• Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
• Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

Job responsibilities

If you require more information, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.

Person Specification Qualifications

• MB ChB/MBBS or equivalent MRCP
• CCT in Gastroenterology (or equivalent or within 6 months of receipt of CCT at time of interview) or on the Specialist Register
• Higher qualification (e.g. MD, PhD)

Experience

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT Gastroenterology with General Internal Medicine and Hepatology sub-speciality accreditation.
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on a range of problems relating to Gastroenterology.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients to the highest clinical standard.
• Ability to organise and affect high quality outpatient Gastroenterology services.
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
• Publications in referred journals. Ability to pursue high quality clinical, health services or epidemiological research.
• Evidence of ability to pursue independent audit and research
• Clinical governance: demonstrates awareness of good decision making. Awareness of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors
• Evidence of ability to pursue independent research

Key Skills

• Ability to undertake diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic treatment for portal hypertensive problems.

Other

• Full Registration and license to practice with the GMC
• Demonstrates honesty, commitment and integrity
• Member of Medical Defence Organisation

Commitment to Clinical Governance/improving quality of patient care

• Clinical governance: demonstrates awareness of good decision-making. Awareness of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors.
• Audit: experience of audit.
• Teaching: experience of supervising undergraduates, junior doctors and other staff; ability to teach clinical skills.
• Research: ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems; ability to critically appraise published evidence. Evidence of research experience.

Communication Skills

• Ability to communicate with other members/ grades of staff, patients, families and General Practitioners.
• Commitment to multidisciplinary work
• Specific training in communications skills, teaching etc

Planning Skills

• Evidence of involvement in service developments/ planning.
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Evidence of successful implementation of new working patterns/methods

Management Skills

• Knowledge of the corporate structure of NHS Trusts, the NHS plan and clinical governance
• Evidence of specific training in management (e.g. courses, practical experience)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Clinical Lead Gastroenterology and Hepatology