Overview
Job overview The Department of ENT Surgery is primarily based at Castle Hill Hospital and currently comprises seven substantive consultants, three locum consultants and five specialist registrars and a Head & Neck Fellow.
At Castle Hill Hospital, the department provides a dedicated outpatient service, has a joint inpatient ward with Breast & Plastic Surgery, and day surgery in the recently built Day Surgery Centre. In addition, the service provides paediatric and day surgery sessions at the Hull Royal Infirmary as well as managing emergencies on the acute site.
The Consultants support the team in the delivery of the routine ENT surgery workload and share duties with the current team of consultants for the provision of ENT surgical services for the local population. The department offers a full Head and Neck and Thyroid cancer service, delivered by two specialist Head and Neck surgeons and a two specialist Thyroid surgeon within the Trust, offering both Transoral Robotic and Transoral Endoscopic surgery. The service is supported by the full range of allied surgical specialties including Reconstructive Plastic surgeons, Maxillofacial surgeons, and Neurosurgical and Cardiothoracic surgeons. In addition, the multi-disciplinary team is supported by colleagues from North Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
There is an ongoing Head and Neck and Thyroid research programme overseen by Professor John Greenman in the Daisy Building and Hull University.
Main duties of the job
* To collaborate and work to maintain ENT services in line with strategic requirements.
* To provide, with the other members of the ENT Consultant body, routine and emergency ENT services to the Trust, operating a system of mutual out-of-hours cover, and cover for annual, study and professional leave.
* To provide elective delivery within the general pool of ENT work and also appropriate sub-speciality surgical ENT care in accordance with the priorities of the Trust.
* To participate, where appropriate, in the education and training of junior doctors, medical students, nurses, paramedics and general practitioners and other appropriate NHS colleagues.
Please see attached job description for a provisional job plan.
Working for your organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this post, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification
For further details / informal visits
Name: Mr Winson Wong
Job title: Consultant ENT Surgeon & Clinical Lead
Email address: w.wong1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01482 875875
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