Locum Consultant Gastroenterologist | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	18 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£105,504 - £139,882 per annum/pro rata
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	17 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	Maidstone, ME16 9QQ
Cwmni:	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7341619/359-MSD7341619

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The post-holder will join a team of nine consultants: Drs Blaker, Bell, Barnardo, Baburajan, Bird Fegredo, Mahumud, Maiden, Sharma, and Hanumantharaya. Clinical duties will include inpatient care atTunbridge Wells Hospital, with endoscopy and outpatient clinics held at eitherTunbridge WellsorMaidstone Hospital.

The successful candidate will participate in theGastroenterologist of the Weekmodel and will haveno General Internal Medicine (GIM)on-call commitments. The Trust runs a24/7 GI bleed rota, and supports care with a comprehensive suite of multidisciplinary meetings (MDMs), including dedicatedupper and lower GI cancer MDMs, abenign liver MDM, and anIBD MDM. A sub-specialist interest in IBD and research is desirable.

The department is well supported by:

· 4IBD Clinical Nurse Specialists

· 1Liver Nurse Specialist

· 9Clinical Endoscopists

· 4Digestive Disease Unit Research Nurses

In addition, the team includes 5registrars, 1IMT3, and 6IMT/Foundation-level trainees.

The department is active in clinical research and innovation. The successful applicant will be encouraged to contribute to and lead new research initiatives, service development, and quality improvement projects.

JD PENDING COLLEGE APPROVAL

This is a consultant appointment within the Gastroenterology Department of the Specialist Medicine Directorate, which delivers clinical services across both Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital sites. The successful candidate will join a team of nine other gastroenterologists within the Trust. The role includes contributing to the delivery of a high-quality gastroenterology service, as well as supporting general medicine services at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital

JD PENDING COLLEGE APPROVAL

The Trustwas established in April 2000 through the merger of Mid Kent Healthcare Trust and Kent & Sussex Weald NHS Trust. It provides general hospital care to ~590,000 people in West Kent and North East Sussex, and specialist cancer services to ~1.8 million. Its main hospitals are Tunbridge Wells Hospital (TWH) in Pembury and Maidstone Hospital (MGH), where the Trust HQ is also based. Key personnel include:Chair: Dr Annette Doherty,Chief Executive: Mr Miles Scott,Chief Medical Officer: Dr Sara Mumford

Clinical services are delivered via nine Directorates. Within theMedicine Directorate(which includes gastroenterology):Lead for Gastroenterology: Dr Paul Blaker,ClinicalDirector: Dr Matt Szeto,Chief of Service (Medicine & Emergency Care): Dr Simon Webster
1. To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering for leave.
2. To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
3. To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
4. To participate fully in the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
5. To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
6. To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
7. To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
8. To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
9. To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice” including the Duties of a Doctor.
10. To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
11. To provide prospective cover, for advice and to deal with clinical emergencies, during colleagues’ annual/study leave and for other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
12. To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trust’s corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
13. To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
14. To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy. You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation. The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.
15. To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
16. You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.
17. Specialty out-patient clinics as appropriate for the post-holder’s special interests
18. Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
19. Participation on the management and future development of the gastroenterology service.


This advert closes on Sunday 3 Aug 2025