Job summary
Our thriving and dynamic Gastroenterology department is based at Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital and Rochdale Infirmary, and is part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA).
This is a unique and exciting time to join an NHS service that is focused on delivering the best healthcare services to our local population, demonstrated by recent investment in an award winning Community Diagnostic Centre in Oldham (CDC), away from the acute site. This state of the art modular build has PET-CT (to be upgraded to one of the first digital PET CT scanners in the country), MR, CT, Ultrasound and physiological testing.
It has been the focus of national attention and has been visited by the Prime Minister, Professor Sir Mike Richards and the National Clinical Director for Elective care. It recently won two HSJ Partnership awards and has featured in National news articles about diagnostics.
In Autumn 2024 the Community Diagnostic Centre will be enhanced further by a co-located 3 room endoscopy unit with clinical rooms and on-site decontamination. Our ambition at the CDC is to transform the way that we traditionally deliver healthcare and to explore new and innovative delivery models that reflect the needs of both our staff and our patients.
Your patients will potentially undergo diagnostic endoscopy, physiological and radiological staging in one visit. There cannot be a better time to join our team.
Main duties of the job
Alongside the CDC, there are 3 endoscopy units across 3 sites (Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary) making this one of the largest endoscopy services in the country. The Endoscopy service offers NHS Bowel Cancer screening programme colonoscopy, ERCP, HPB, EUS, advanced Lower GI EMR/ ESD are delivered within the Trust.
With the expansion of our endoscopy service, we are looking to recruit a Consultant Endscopist to help deliver the highest quality Endoscopy service to our local population. Team members within the service will have the opportunity to influence the development of services.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:
Person Specification
Qualifications & Conditions
Essential
1. Registration on the GMC Specialist Register for Gastroenterology, General Surgery (or within 6 months of obtaining CCT)
2. MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
3. MRCP or equivalent medical or surgical qualification
4. Hold a license to practice
5. To be formally recognised as Clinical Supervisor as defined by the GMC Trainer Standards
Desirable
6. Post Graduate Degree MD, PhD, MSc
7. To be formally recognised as Educational Supervisor as defined by the GMC Trainer Standards
Experience and clinical skills
Essential
8. Must be able to demonstrate that they have achieved the BSG and JAG endoscopy quality standards relating to diagnostic and therapeutic Upper GI Endoscopy and Colonoscopy., JAG accreditation or equivalent for these procedures
9. Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to Gastroenterology/GIM problems
10. Specialist knowledge and experience in order to manage, supervise and/or offer expert clinical opinion on the management of a range of gastroenterology problems both emergency and elective within speciality including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
11. Understanding current issues within endoscopy and the future direction of the specialty
12. Demonstrates the necessary range, depth and breadth of competencies specified in the Acute Medicine curriculum and applying to this post
13. Attendance at a recognised management course
14. Attendance at appropriate professional meetings and courses
15. Good understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable
16. Development of specialist/ sub specialist areas within endoscopy: candidates will be supported to develop an interest in one or more of the following and therefore will potentially have advanced skills in one of the following: ERCP/ EUS, Advanced Lower GI polypectomy
Leadership
Essential
17. Evidence of good organisational and leadership skills
18. Ability to lead the development of services and provoke best practice amongst the colleagues
Desirable
19. Evidence of development of leadership within the work environment
Communication
Essential
20. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
21. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations
22. Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients, their parents and other relatives and with colleagues and staff in all disciplines
Desirable
23. Attendance at Death/Bereavement or Breaking News workshops and Counselling courses
Management
Essential
24. Evidence of development and management of change
25. Ability to manage risk and end of line decisions
26. Ability to cope with change
27. An understanding of management in the context of the Health Service including clinical governance and risk management
28. Attendance at management meetings
Desirable
29. Able to manage and lead change internally and within multi-agency setting
30. Attendance at management course
31. Previous participation in a management role
32. Experience in appraisal and mentoring
Teaching
Essential
33. Experience of teaching juniors, medical students and other health care professionals
Desirable
34. Proven teaching abilities
35. Attendance at teaching course
36. Certified Endoscopy trainer
Audit & Research
Essential
37. Evidence of audit work and where this has brought about change
38. Evidence of participation in research
39. Awareness of basic research methods
40. Familiarity with evidence based practice
Desirable
41. Evidence of work submitted for Peer review
Other
Essential
42. Clear commitment to lifelong learning
43. Experience of evidence based medicine
44. Ability to keep up to date in the speciality
45. Willing to reside within a distance of 30 minutes or 10 road miles from the principle place of work
46. Work Health Assessment (mandatory)
47. Appropriate Home Office status to undertake a career post in the UK
Desirable
48. Membership of appropriate post graduate societies
49. IT skills
Teamwork
Essential
50. Proven ability to build and maintain effective teams
51. Ability to work in a team with professional colleagues both medical and from other disciplines
52. Experience of supervision of junior staff