Job overview
We are inviting applications for a Locum Consultant position to enhance the services of our ENT department, which currently serves approximately 560,000 patients. We are seeking a Locum Head & Neck Consultant to deliver exceptional patient care within our progressive organisation. In this role, you will be responsible for providing and developing services in collaboration with other Consultant colleagues. There is also potential for this position to become a permanent, substantive appointment.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative team comprising 7 Consultants, 9 Speciality and trust-grade doctors, fellows, speciality trainees, Nurse Practitioners, Audiologists, and a substantial team of ENT nurses, technicians, and healthcare assistants. The department also benefits from an ENT failsafe coordinator and a supportive senior management team.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering for annual leave.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments to ensure a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the speciality, to provide high-quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to contribute to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the speciality, covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning, unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
To participate actively in departmental audits, the coordination of audit activities within the department and the implementation of change.
To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
Working for our organisation
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ranks among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and was named the second-best Trust to work for in the South East in the 2023 and 2024 NHS Staff Survey.
We are a large acute hospital trust in south-east England, providing general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 residents in West Kent and East Sussex. With a dedicated and diverse team of over 8,000 staff, we are proud to offer specialised cancer services to over two million people through the Kent Oncology Centre.
Fordcombe Hospital, near Tunbridge Wells, became part of the Trust in October 2024. Specialising in planned care, it offers two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day-care beds, diagnostic services (X-ray, MRI, CT, and endoscopy), and consultation/treatment rooms.
Looking for flexible working?
We are a flexible, work-friendly organisation. Whether it’s adjusting your hours or exploring other flexible arrangements, we want to work with you to find the best solution for you, our patients, and the Trust. Talk to us about how we can accommodate your working needs.
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Joining us includes a comprehensive benefits package:
1. Generous annual leave entitlement
2. Membership in the NHS Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 23.7% and life assurance benefits
3. Blue Light card eligibility
4. And more, additional benefits can be found in the benefits documents below
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trust’s corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy. You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation. The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
5. MB BS (or equivalent)
6. Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via: CCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview, CESR or European Community Rights
7. Fellowship in Laryngology
8. Higher surgical training in ENT within a recognised programme
9. Wide experience of general ENT
Desirable criteria
10. Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
11. Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc MD
Audit
Essential criteria
12. Understand the principles of audit
Desirable criteria
13. Evidence of participation in audit projects
Research
Essential criteria
14. An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable criteria
15. Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
16. Publications in peer-reviewed journals