Consultant Gastroenterologist
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £93,666.00 to £126,281.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £93666.00 - £126281.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 June 2024 |
| Location: | Kettering, NN16 8UZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9264-24-0290 |
Summary
The Digestive Disease Unit ward is the base ward for the Gastroenterology and Hepatology team and has 20 beds and a 3 bedded day-case unit. There is a consultant of the week rota (CotW) and the CotW is responsible for overall care of the patients on DDU (mostly GI/Liver/Nutrition related patients with some general medical patients) and provide supervision for registrars who cover referrals from other departments; provide the appropriate clinical and educational oversight of the ward junior doctors and work with the multi-professional ward team to deliver safe and high-quality care of the patients. The trusts values and GMCs GMP principles are the guiding principles. The CotW also is the first port of call on the Consultant Connect telephone advice service for local GPs. Endoscopy service provision would be expected to include diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, both in Upper and lower GI endoscopy. Advanced endoscopic skills would be encouraged and there is provision to support the capsule Endoscopy services for those with the skills. Other specialist endoscopic skills like ERCP/EUS are not mandatory but appropriately trained post-holders would be welcome to provide the services. The post has a luminal gastroenterology and nutrition focus and would join the current teams 1 academic, 3 fulltime and 2 part time consultants and 4 specialist nurses to provide a high quality luminal and nutrition service. Responsibility for the proper functioning of the department and any responsibility that relates to a special interest would need balancing with clinical need. This includes ongoing management of inpatient and outpatient care of general Gastroenterology and General Medicine patients. The appointee would be expected to deliver out-patient services including 2-week wait Gastroenterology and Hepatology referrals and take ongoing responsibility for patients under his/her care. He/she would also provide a consultation service and advisory service to clinical colleagues in other specialties within the Trust and Primary Care. The consultant appointee would form part of the GI Bleed rota.