Locum Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Closing date: 04 March 2026
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
An immediate opportunity has arisen for a Colorectal Consultant appointment, with an interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Benign Colorectal Surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. Newcastle Hospitals provides a tertiary regional IBD referral centre, with a number of dedicated IBD surgeons, providing high volume and advanced IBD surgical care. The post provides an opportunity to be part of a large and innovative IBD team, with an international reputation, and establish close collaborations within our research active, multi-disciplinary teams.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
The role will have a major focus in supporting the established Newcastle IBD practice, involving primary and re-do resectional surgery, pouch formation/excision and complex perianal pathology management. However, the team are also keen to assist development in advanced and minimally invasive approaches, and the appointee will be encouraged to develop a practice to support current colorectal, IBD, and advanced hernia surgery provision.
The successful applicant would be expected to support delivery of our broader colorectal service. There are potential mentorship and training opportunities for new consultants and considerable flexibility within the department to support the appointment of the very best candidate.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:
Prof Richard Brady (IBD Surgery) on 01912820018 or via email at richard.brady32@nhs.net or Mr Jason Ramsingh (Clinical Director) on 01912824661 or via email at j.ramsingh@nhs.net
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients’ contacts each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under‑represented groups.
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
* Provide high quality elective and emergency surgical care to Newcastle and regional population.
* Further develop sub‑speciality services as part of a multidisciplinary team
Administrative:
* Provide timely communication to the wider team in hospital and the community
* Contribute to the efficient running of elective and acute care.
* Engage with national audits (NELA, NBOCAP, IMPACT etc)
Research:
* Engage and collaborate with ongoing local and NIHR Portfolio research activities within the department.
* Provide clinical academic leadership in supporting medical students and doctors in training deliver research projects
Teaching:
* The department leads many educational programs and teaching is an important part of this role.
* Opportunities to lead/further develop courses are numerous via the Newcastle Surgical Training Centre (NSTC)
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
* Primary Medical Qualification
* Full GMC Registration
* Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
* FRCS in General Surgery
* Higher Degree
* Advanced Fellowships in colorectal or minimally invasive surgery
Clinical Experience
* Evidence of experience in the specialty
* Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
* Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
* Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
* Additional training/skills in one of the following areas -IBD -abdominal wall -reconstruction
* Experience of major trauma surgery/ care delivery
Management and Administration Experience
* Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
* An understanding of Clinical Governance
* Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
* Evidence of leadership / project management
* Evidence of having implemented change
* Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff
* Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
* Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
* Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
* Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
* Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
* Research/critical review of literature
* Publications in the last five years
* Commitment to/ evidence of recruiting patients into clinical trials
* High impact colorectal research publications
* Evidence of successful award of competitive research funding
Audit
* Evidence of participation in audit
* Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
* Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
Personal Attributes
* Alignment with the Trust's values
* Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
* Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
* A commitment to personal / unit CPD
* Ability and willingness to work the on‑call rota
* Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum pro rata
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