Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
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We are recruiting for a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".
Are you looking to develop a unique surgical career or to re-locate to develop a new life style.
We are seeking an imaginative Colorectal & General Surgeon to support the development of our services and to share in the unique life style offered by living and working on the Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.
Job description
The provisional timetable represents a job plan consisting of 10 programmed activities (PAs) per week. The job plan is a prospective agreement that sets out the consultants duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of the consultants professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external.
In addition it will include personal objectives including details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.
The job plan, for 10 PAs will commence including 1.5 Supporting Professional Activities [SPA]. After six months in post the SPA allocation will be reviewed with the post holder and any necessary adjustments will be made with a maximum of 2.5 SPAs. It is expected that more direct clinical care (DCC) sessions in theatre or clinic would be available if required.
Current on call commitments are based around a 1:7 provision.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for General Surgery; CESR or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration or within 6 months of the receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at the time of interview
Desirable
- Higher Degree e.g., MD PhD
Experience & Clinical Skills
Essential
- ATLS
- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in colorectal, general and laparoscopic surgery
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Desirable
- Robotic colorectal fellowship
- JAG accreditation for lower GI Scope
Audit & Research
Essential
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit relevant to speciality
Desirable
- Published audits
- Publication in peer reviewed journals
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of Post Grade teaching
About the employer
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We have formed a group model with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. This enables us to be part of their colorectal cancer MDT and currently refer low rectal cancers for Robotic rectal resections, early rectal cancers for Robotic TEMS, young right colon cancers for Robotic CME, selected locally advanced rectal cancers for Robotic exenteration procedures and other procedures like Robotic LPLND and para-aortic lymph node dissection. There may be opportunities in the future for successful candidates to be able to be mentored in such procedures and share joint operation at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.