Consultant in Colorectal Surgery
| Posting date: | 23 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109725.00 - £145478.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2026 |
| Location: | Wigan, WN1 2NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9302-26-0190 |
Summary
The appointee will be required to provide a Colorectal elective and General Surgery emergency service to support the Trusts surgical workload wherever it is located (including an on-call element). The appointee will be responsible for: Contributing to and participating in the development of the Colorectal surgery service Providing specialist advice to patients regarding their illness Providing clinical care to patients referred to them Delivering the emergency surgical service (hot week, weekend and out of hrs, 1 in 10 rota) Working with colleagues to provide effective clinical leadership for all staff in the service The primary roles of this post are delivery of the elective Colorectal service (benign and malignant major surgery, day case coloproctology) and participation in delivery of emergency General Surgery. The ability to contribute to the trust endoscopy service is an additional requirement of the post. The post holder is required to deliver emergency surgery, including hot gallbladder service and elective operating sessions at RAEI site. Day case minor coloproctology theatre sessions, outpatient clinics and endoscopy sessions may be undertaken at Leigh Infirmary and Thomas Linacre Centre. The successful applicants are expected to be competent in the delivery of the full range of emergency general surgery procedures acquired through completion of the training programme leading to CCT in General Surgery or recognised equivalent training programmes. The successful appointee is expected to provide specialist colorectal support to General Surgeons as advice, joint operating or transfer of care to the colorectal team for colorectal emergencies of complexity beyond the expertise of a general surgeon. There is no vascular service in the Trust and patients requiring vascular interventions are referred to the vascular regional service. There is expectation that the applicant is competent in clinical assessment of abdominal pain in children over age of 5 in collaboration with the paediatric team. Complex cases are referred to the specialist children hospital in Manchester. Specialist Radiology support for is available on the RAEI site. This includes two CT scanners, MRI and ultrasound. Interventional Radiology is limited and some patients may require transfer to tertiary specialist centres. There is a well establish 24 hour emergency CT scan service available for general surgical admissions. The Departments of General Surgery works closely with the department of Gastroenterology and an established upper GI bleeding rota and ERCP service Local Upper GI and HPB MDT run weekly in cooperation with the specialists from the tertiary referral centres.