There is an opportunity for x2 Fixed Term Consultant Posts:
• 1x 6 month fixed term
• 1x 12 month fixed term
Applications are invited from suitably qualified individual to apply for the post of Consultant Upper GI (Oesophago-Gastric)/General Surgeon (Full time) on a fixed term basis. Thesuccessfulcandidatewillhaveclinical duties across LUHFT sites but will be based in the Directorate of General Surgery at theRLUH.ThispostistohelpdevelopandexpandthecentralisedUpperGIsurgical service at LUHFT as well as contribute to elective General Surgery, including Day Case Surgery. The new post holder will help meet cancer and other targets foroesophago-gastricdiseaseandcontributetogeneralsurgicalworkloadwithinthetrust.Expertise in major oesophago-gastric resections for malignant disease and possessionof ahigherdegreeisessential.Post CCT UpperGIFellowship, expertise in Robotic surgery and advanced endoscopy would be highly desirable.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified individual to apply for the post of Consultant Upper GI (Oesophago-Gastric)/General Surgeon (Full time). Thesuccessfulcandidatewillhaveclinical duties across LUHFT sites but will be based in the Directorate of General Surgery at theRLUH.ThispostistohelpdevelopandexpandthecentralisedUpperGIsurgical service at LUHFT as well as contribute to elective General Surgery, including Day Case Surgery. The new post holder will help meet cancer and other targets foroesophago-gastricdiseaseandcontributetogeneralsurgicalworkloadwithinthetrust.Expertise in major oesophago-gastric resections for malignant disease and possessionof ahigherdegreeisessential.Post CCT UpperGIFellowship, expertise in Robotic surgery and advanced endoscopy would be highly desirable.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
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The successful candidate will join anestablished teamof UpperGI cancer surgeons, workingwithintheRLUHprovidinganUpperGIcancerresectionserviceforLiverpool and surrounding areas.This comprises a populationinexcess 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, particularlyintheearlyyearsofConsultantappointment.Thenewappointeewillhave equitable working conditions to colleagues within both the Upper GI unit and wider surgicaldepartment.TheUpperGIunitworksasateamwithaconsultantwardround every day, 365 days a year. Postoperative and emergency patients are looked after bytheconsultantswithintheUpperGIteam. Therefore,whenacolleagueisonleave 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 dedicatedPostoperativeCriticalCareUnit(POCCU)andanITUunitwitha combined total bedcapacityof35beds,withanadditional EnhancedSurgicalRecoveryAreaof 5beds.TheserviceissupportedbythreeSpecialtyTrainees,aseniorUpperGIfellow, four specialist nurses and four dedicated Upper GI Dieticians. There is also a dedicated team of anaesthetists that support the service for both preoperative assessmentandsinglelunganaesthesia;withprovisionforCPETtesting.Theregional SMDT is held weekly at RLUH, and is a collaboration between Upper GI Surgeons, Gastroenterologists,Radiologists,UGICancerSpecialistNursesaswellasSpecialist Histopathologists at LUHFT, together with UGI Cancer Specialist Nurses fromall the regional hospitals trusts and Medical/Clinical Oncologists from Clatterbridge CancerCentre.
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 allaspectsofcomplexbenignUpperGIwork,butcurrentlyexcludesbariatricsurgery. There are sessions both at the RLUH for complex majorwork, and lists at AUH andBroadgreenHospitalsitesforambulatorysurgery.TheUpperGICancerclinicisajoint collaboration between all of the Upper GI Resectional surgeons and is held twice weeklyatRLUH withuptosixclinicstreams. Thereis,inaddition,aweeklyspecialist UpperGIbenignandGeneralSurgeryclinic(twostreams)attheBroadgreensiteand 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 sub–Specialist Upper GI emergency provision will form part of the emergency cover for the city. There will be a pro rata contribution by the new appointmenttothisactivity,sharedequallybetweentheUpperGISurgeons.Thiswill include,notonlytheprovisionofEmergencyUpperGIprovision,butalsoprovide24/7 cover for Specialist (Cancer and complex benign) Upper GI inpatients at the Royal site, and a regional on-call for complex oesophagogastric emergencies.
This advert closes on Monday 14 Apr 2025