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Consultant Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgeon

Job details
Posting date: 24 December 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 08 February 2025
Location: Liverpool, L7 8YE
Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6800109/287-RSUR-197-24

Summary

A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


This is a new full-time (10 PA) post to join the current Merseyside and Cheshire Regional HPB Centre which consists of three Professors, and five full-time NHS Pancreatic Surgeons. The post holder will help meet cancer and waiting list targets for both malignant and benign pancreatic disease, and contribute to achievement of the 18-week target for the general surgical workload, including contributing to the ‘hot’ gallbladder service. Expertise in major pancreatic resections for both malignant and benign pancreatic disease is essential, as well as experience in surgery for severe acute pancreatitis.

The trust has a well established robotic HPB surgical programme and robotic experience is desirable. The post-holder will contribute to the workload equitably with the other full-time NHS consultants. All the pancreatic surgeons work closely together as a single unit and cross-cover between all members of the unit is expected in order to maintain services.

The post holder will join the pancreatic team with Mr R Baron, Professor R Sutton, Professor P Ghaneh, Professor C Halloran, Mr M Raraty, Mr D Dunne, Mr K Mann and Mr P Szatmary.

The successful candidate will be appointed to a 10 PA contract in the first instance and will be expected to commit to the planned programmed elective surgical throughput model for RLUH involving 6.0 PAs of direct clinical care elective activity during the week, as well as contribute to the general surgical and sub-specialty pancreatic on-call rotas (2 PA). There is an allocation of 2.0 core SPAs for audit, education, revalidation etc.

A provisional weekly job plan will incorporate;

Monday Neuroendocrine MDT 0.5 PA

SPA 1.0 PA

Tuesday Outpatient clinic 1.0 PA

Patient Admin 1.0 PA

Wednesday Cancer MDT 0.5 PA

Ward round 0.5 PA

Thursday Cancer operating list (Alt week 3 PA list) 1.5 PA

Friday General Surgery operating list (shared) 0.5 PA

SPA (flexible) 1.0 PA

Emergency surgery (surgeon-of-the-week + predictable on-call) 2.0 PA

+ Availability supplement 5%

Job planning meetings are held annually and job planning is performed using an electronic, on-line system (Allocate). A formal job planning meeting will be held within 6-12 months of taking up the post.

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.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.

The trust has a well established robotic HPB surgical programme and robotic experience is desirable. The post-holder will contribute to the workload equitably with the other full-time NHS consultants. All the pancreatic surgeons work closely together as a single unit and cross-cover between all members of the unit is expected in order to maintain services.


This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jan 2025