Job Summary
Locum Consultant Gastroenterologist at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
40hrs per week (10 PA's)
12 Months Fixed Term contract
Salary dependant on experience £88,364 - £119,133
An excellent opportunity has arisen to join our expanding patient centred and supportive Gastroenterology department at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Our hard-working and forward-thinking team are keen to develop the Gastroenterology service and would welcome similar minded candidates to join our department. This is an exciting time to join us with opportunity to support outpatient transformation as part of a blended workforce as we develop our Luminal and Liver services and establish novel outpatient pathways. Our Gastroenterology service is one of the busiest in the UK - we offer a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for all gastroenterological conditions.
Main Duties of the Job
We carry out approximately 15,000 endoscopic procedures per annum and are a spoke centre for the North-West Endoscopy training academy and admin hub for Bowel cancer screening within the Lancashire region. We have 7 Clinical Endoscopists, 1 trainee Clinical Endoscopist and have also been successful in securing funding to recruit to an Endoscopy Nurse Consultant post as well. An open access endoscopy service straight-to-test fast track upper and lower GI endoscopy services are well-established. A wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures are carried out including banding of oesophageal varices, thrombin injection for gastric varices, oesophageal, duodenal and colonic stent insertion, balloon dilatation, colonoscopy and polypectomy, upper and lower GI endoscopic mucosal resection, push enteroscopy, ERCP, EUS and capsule endoscopy. The department has an established EUS service for UGI and HPB.
We have weekly multidisciplinary meetings in Radiology, Upper & Lower GI as well as HPB cancer. We are integrated into a clinical network with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals for UGI Cancer and with East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Leeds for HPB services and Liver transplant services respectively.
We have a weekly SMT meeting, monthly Gastrointestinal Directorate meeting, bi-monthly Gastroenterology Business and Endoscopy user group meetings as well.
About Us
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents and employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
The organisation provides specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. We also have specialised Cardio-thoracic Surgical and Sleep Medicine services (including polysomnography) and provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.
Job Responsibilities
The Department of Gastroenterology is part of the Surgery, Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Theatres (SACCT) Division and physically comprises a Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit and a Gastroenterology ward. Our large JAG accredited Endoscopy unit has 5 Endoscopy procedural rooms with funding secured for expansion of the unit with addition of a 6th Endoscopy procedural room in 2023. Endoscopy recovery and restoration is also being supported through activity at a temporary modular unit run by an insourcing company until May 2024. We are a performance driven and responsive service utilising an Endoscopy performance dashboard to improve and maintain standards. The appointee will assist the Endoscopy unit in providing a high-quality endoscopy service maintaining best practice with reference to standards outlined by the JAG global rating scale (GRS) for endoscopy.
We offer a consulting service in Gastroenterology with dedicated IBD, Nutrition and Liver clinics. The current Gastroenterology workforce comprises 6.8 WTE Consultants, 3 Specialist Trainees (from the North-West Deanery) and 2 Trust Grade Registrars/Clinical Fellow equivalent. We are also supported by 3 IMT and 2 FY1 doctors who are ward based. Our Gastroenterology Registrars rotate between the existing Gastroenterology Consultants on a 4-monthly basis. Experienced secretarial support is provided to each Consultants on a 2:1 ratio with each secretary further supported by additional Admin support and typists.
We adopt a multidisciplinary team approach for many conditions including upper GI cancer, Inflammatory bowel disease, Liver disease and Nutrition. We have 3 IBD Specialist Nurses, 3 Nutrition Specialist Nurses, 3 Upper GI CNS, 3 Liver Specialist Nurses and 4.5 WTE Alcohol support liaison nurses.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications:
* Full GMC Registration
* Higher Degree (MD/PHD)
* MRCP or Equivalent
Desirable Qualifications:
* Previous experience in research
* Experience of NHS systems
* Previous experience in a locum post in Gastro with Endoscopy experience
* Relevant experience to apply for the role
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.
Employer Details
Employer name: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Whinney Heys Rd, Blackpool, FY3 8NR
Website: https://www.bfwh.nhs.uk/
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