12 month Locum Consultant Hepatologist
This is a post which will support the Hepatology service for 12 months initially as a locum appointment. The successful candidate will join 20 other Consultant colleagues in providing general and sub-speciality services through the Trust to its surrounding community and other referring hospitals in the Region. The Directorate spans the full range of Inpatient, Outpatient and Endoscopy Services and is also supported at a clinical level by 4 Nurse Consultants and 35 Specialist Nurses, 6 StRs, a Hepatology NTN, 1 x academic clinic lecturer and 5 F1/2 doctors.
The main duties of the post will be to provide lp further develop the HPB gastroenterology service along with the other WTE HPB and Hepatology gastroenterologists already in post that will meet the future demands for HPB Gastroenterology in a City Hospital Trust and Regional referral Centre. The core responsibilities will be to provide general and specialist HPB outpatient clinic services as well as deliver advanced endoscopic HPB therapy.
Alongside these responsibilities the successful applicant will provide on call out of hours endoscopy cover and inpatient hepatology consultant ward cover on a rotational basis.
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 Hospitalis 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 Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis 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 Appointee, together with his or her colleagues will have a commitment to the provision of Hepatology services. Most of the work will be Hepatology outpatient clinic portal hypertension endoscopy and inpatient service. Ward cover is provided on a rotational basis supporting the management of the Hepatology Gastroenterology in-patients when the Consultants take part in ‘hot’ weeks for 2 weeks at a time. The majority (>90%) of our ward patients have primary GI disorders.
The successful candidate will also cover Endoscopy and Out-patient sessions. The expectation is to provide an on call commitment to support endoscopy and out of hours cover (on call sessions are recognised within our job plans in addition to the on call supplement).
Weekend on call work at the Royal site consists of either endoscopy sessions – in-patients performed by one consultant with another consultant covering the in-patient bed base. Weekend on call is currently delivered on a 1:8 rota at RLH site.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Dec 2024