Job summary
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This is an exciting opportunity to join the ENT Department at Ashford and St Peters Hospital. You will be working across site at both Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals with an experienced Team of ENT Consultants, Nurses, Clinical and Administrative Staff.
Main duties of the job
This is a Substantive Consultant post with a weekly commitment of10PAs. The post-holder will hold general ENT clinics at both Ashfordand St Peter's Hospitals with operating lists at Ashford Hospital.
About us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.
We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.
Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a Substantive Consultant post with a weekly commitment of10PAs. The post-holder will hold general ENT clinics at both Ashfordand St Peters Hospitals with operating lists at Ashford Hospital. Please see the job description for more detail.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. FRCS or equivalent
2. Full GMC registration
Experience
Essential
3. Extensive experience in ENT
Desirable
4. Fellowship Experience
Clinical Skills
Essential
5. Ability to diagnose and manage all common ENT conditions, including emergencies. Surgical experience.
Team Working
Essential
6. Ability to work effectively with nurses, junior doctors, consultant colleagues & administrative and management staff
Desirable
7. Publications, posters or presentations
Teaching
Essential
8. Willingness to teach junior doctors, nursing staff and GPs
9. Evidence of participation in audit projects and willingness to undertake new audits or research
Skills
Essential
10. Must be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
11. Ability to work constructively in an MDT, be flexible and responsive to the needs of colleagues