PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE. As a medical consultant at South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS FT trust, you will have continuing responsibility for care of your inpatients and outpatients. You will be in charge of inpatients of Consultant colleagues during periods of on call duty, holidays, study leave and short term sickness. You will be expected to supervise junior Medical Staff allocated to you and you may be a nominated educational and clinical supervisor to identified junior medical staff assigned to Gastroenterology with appropriate training provided if necessary. You will also be expected to undertake as part of the team an active role in regular departmental Clinical Governance meetings. You will share responsibility for provision and development of the Gastroenterology service with the consultant team and successful recruitment will help to develop seven day services at the South Tyneside site. The post holder is expected to possess Membership/Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and to be on the GMC Specialist Register for both General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the time of taking up the post. It is anticipated that the entire team will contribute to co-ordinated working across both sites and improve efficiency and patient pathways. Development of subspecialty interest would be encouraged.