The successful candidate will join an established team of Upper GI cancer surgeons, working within the RLUH providing an Upper GI cancer resection service for Liverpool and surrounding areas. This comprises a population in excess of 1.5 million patients, and generates approximately 150 resections per year This includes patients from across the region including patients from the catchment area of North and South Liverpool, the Wirral, St Helens and Knowsley, North Cheshire, Southport, Chester and the Isle of Man. The successful candidate will join an existing team of substantive Upper GI cancer surgeons based at RLUH. Expected duties will include an active role in maintaining and developing the elective Upper GI cancer service, whilst contributing equitably to the out of hours service; for both elective and emergency activity. The unit facilitates mentorship and two-consultant operating where necessary, particularly in the early years of Consultant appointment. The new appointee will have equitable working conditions to colleagues within both the Upper GI unit and wider surgical department. The Upper GI unit works as a team with a consultant ward round every day, 365 days a year. Postoperative and emergency patients are looked after by the consultants within the Upper GI team. Therefore, when a colleague is on leave or at a different hospital site there is no requirement for cover. There is a weekly planning meeting after the Specialist MDT meeting (SMDT) to facilitate staffing of clinical activities. RLUH has a dedicated Upper GI enhanced recovery ward. In addition, there is a dedicated Postoperative Critical Care Unit (POCCU) and an ITU unit with a combined total bed capacity of 35 beds, with an additional Enhanced Surgical Recovery Area of 5 beds. The service is supported by three Specialty Trainees, a senior Upper GI fellow, four specialist nurses and four dedicated Upper GI Dieticians. There is also a dedicated team of anaesthetists that support the service for both preoperative assessment and single lung anaesthesia; with provision for CPET testing. The regional SMDT is held weekly at RLUH, and is a collaboration between Upper GI Surgeons, Gastroenterologists, Radiologists, UGI Cancer Specialist Nurses as well as Specialist Histopathologists at LUHFT, together with UGI Cancer Specialist Nurses from all the regional hospitals trusts and Medical/Clinical Oncologists from Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. In addition to undertaking resections at RLUH, the successful candidate will be expected to develop/maintain an interest in benign Upper GI Surgery. This includes all aspects of complex benign Upper GI work, but currently excludes bariatric surgery. There are sessions both at the RLUH for complex major work, and lists at AUH and Broadgreen Hospital sites for ambulatory surgery. The Upper GI Cancer clinic is a joint collaboration between all of the Upper GI Resectional surgeons and is held twice weekly at RLUH with up to six clinic streams. There is, in addition, a weekly specialist Upper GI benign and General Surgery clinic (two streams) at the Broadgreen site and a further weekly Upper GI benign clinic at RLUH. There is adequate provision within the job plan for travel to the Broadgreen site. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute equitably to the Emergency General Surgery service at LUHFT, which currently has two parallel on call teams at the RLUH and AUH sites. The RLUH EGS service is covered by a Surgeon of the week (currently 1 in 14 rota) who has no elective commitment during that week and is responsible for the provision of Emergency Surgical care for inpatient surgical emergency work; including day to day decision making, consultant led ward rounds and operating. AUH site has dedicated Trauma and EGS Surgeons with General surgeons contributing only to out of hours and weekend emergency rotas. The existing subSpecialist Upper GI emergency provision will form part of the emergency cover for the city. There will be a pro rata contribution by the new appointment to this activity, shared equally between the Upper GI Surgeons. This will include, not only the provision of Emergency Upper GI provision, but also provide 24/7 cover for Specialist (Cancer and complex benign) Upper GI inpatients at the Royal site, and a regional on-call for complex oesophagogastric emergencies.