Locum Consultant Surgeon with interest in Emergency and Benign Surgery

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Locum Consultant Surgeon with a specialist interest in emergency and benign general surgery to join our expanding Same Day Emergency Care service.

The department is currently increasing the number of consultant appointments within this service to enable a more rapid turnover of patients requiring urgent care investigations. This will support early decision-making and ambulatory reviews in a ‘hot clinic’ setting, helping to reduce pressure on inpatient beds.

Supported by Advanced Nurse Practitioners and resident doctors, the successful applicant will lead a team, work collaboratively with the Emergency Department, and provide support to the on-call surgical team in theatres and on wards.

The unit is in its early stages and is set to expand further in response to the rising number of acute patient attendances at the Wexham site of Frimley Health Trust. We will offer support for developing specialist interests and early-years mentoring within the department.

A specialist interest in emergency surgery is a core requirement of this role. Additional interests such as endoscopy, day surgery, benign colorectal, and benign upper GI surgery will be encouraged.

The Trust will fully support the post-holder with appraisal and revalidation processes in line with GMC requirements.

Main duties of the job

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• The post-holder will be expected to provide a week of same day emergency cover (SDEC) on a Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm on a 1 in 5 week basis.
• The post-holder will participate in a 1-in-14 week Emergency General Surgery on-call rota, running from Monday 8:00am to Friday 8:00am, as well as a separately scheduled 1-in-14 weekend on-call rota from Friday 8:00am to Monday 8:00am.
• The on-call rota is expected to change as further emergency surgeons are recruited. Future arrangements may involve less frequent week and weekend commitments, with the potential introduction of weekday overnight on-call cover from 18:00 to 08:00.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached, detailed, job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MBBS or equivalent
• FRCS exit exam
• In possession of the CCT, CESR or EEA/EU equivalent (although doctors who have completed higher specialist training or equivalent and are within 6 months of being placed on the specialist register are eligible to apply)
• ATLS Course
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Higher degree eg MSc MD PhD
• Management and leadership course
• Definitive trauma skills course
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of registrar level training programme or equivalent in general surgery
• UGI or LGI endoscopy experience with NED account showing evidence of working towards independent practice
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of a fellowship in a specialist centre e.g. advanced colorectal cancer, IBD, abdominal wall reconstruction, intestinal failure or UGI cancer
• Consultant level on call experience
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to run an acute general surgery take, lead a resident and ANP team and to manage patients appropriately
• Ability to perform major surgery out of hours for acute abdomen
• Rapid decision and turnaround in SDEC and ambulatory care setting
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• To lead NELA data management and to encourage universal participation in this audit
• To contribute to clinical governance of the emergency surgery department by continuously auditing data and presenting comparative outcomes
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Show interest in developing DGH paediatric surgery by being willing to train in a tertiary centre for herniotomy and orchidopexy
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. 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 are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

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, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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