Gastroenterology Specialist Doctor | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £83,945 - £95,275 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 July 2024 |
| Location: | Slough, SL2 4HL |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6367574/151-SD-02 |
Summary
The role is a new permanent post for a specialist in Gastroenterology to join the existing team across Frimley NHS Foundation Trust. The role consists of primarily working across Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospital. The post holder will be able to work independently to provide general gastroenterology clinical care along with endoscopic services to patients at Frimley NH Foundation Trust. As this is a senior role, with a commensurate salary offer, the post holder would be expected to be fully trained in diagnostic OGD and colonoscopy. There will be an opportunity to develop and deliver subspecialty services and any of these (IBD, nutrition, hepatology, HPB medicine, interventional endoscopy etc) would be considered. A minimum of 12 years medical work since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which 6 years should have been in the relevant speciality. Equivalent years of experience in a relevant speciality from other medical grades including overseas will also be accepted.
• Be responsible for the medical care of patients in the gastroenterology wards, working alongside junior doctors, advances nurse practitioners and consultants.
• Commit to appraisal, revalidation, and personal development in line with the statutory and trust guidelines.
• Assist in developing the service and participate in departmental audit and quality improvement projects.
• Working across multiple sites as per the needs of the service.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
• Maintenance of the highest standards in the care of patients with gastroenterology conditions.
• To share with colleagues’ responsibility for the day to day management of our Gastroenterology Department.
• To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in continuing professional development (CPD).
• Flexibility of duties is expected i.e. assisting with emergency endoscopy.
• The post holders may also contribute to the out of hours endoscopy rota.
• The post holder will provide service work to maintain either endoscopy and/or clinic waits to comply with national and local targets.
• The post holders will support consultants with the provision of inpatient care to patients on the gastroenterology ward and other acute medical areas where required.
• Where appropriate to participate in the development of research within the service.
• To Facilitate teaching and training within the department.
• Participation and involvement in clinical governance, quality improvement and other business in Gastroenterology and Endoscopy department.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Jul 2024