Job Summary
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is welcoming applications for a Consultant General and Benign Biliary/Upper GI Surgeon.
The successful applicant will provide benign general surgical and upper gastrointestinal surgical services to the community served by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust and play a key role with colleagues in further developing general surgical services. They will provide, with consultant colleagues, a service in general surgery involving in‑patient and out‑patient work and share in the on‑call rota.
This is a new post to support the development of the General Surgery service. All staff support and ancillary facilities are in place. There will be office space for the post‑holder with a dedicated computer and IT facilities and medical secretarial support.
We welcome informal visits and enquiries.
Main Duties
* To provide a general surgical service including general surgical elective activity and 1 in 9 on call emergency cover for general surgery at QEH
* To provide elective benign biliary/Upper GI surgical service
* Consultants are required to have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper funding of their departments. They are expected to undertake administrative duties that arise from these responsibilities.
* To provide an Outpatients service for new referrals and for ongoing care
* To provide an on‑call commitment of 1:9 at QEH
o To live within 10 miles of QEH or within 30 mins travel time to QEH
About Us
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.
In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).
Job Details
Date posted: 08 June 2023
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £88,364 to £119,133 a year.
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full‑time
Reference number: 426‑497‑23SS
Job locations: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gayton Road, King’s Lynn, PE30 4ET
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications
* MMBS or equivalent medical qualification.
* FRCS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable Qualifications
* MD, PhD or evidence of equivalent training and experience.
Entry Criteria
Essential
* Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council.
* Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) at time of interview.
* Training and interest in benign elective and emergency general surgery.
* Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the emergency care of patients, both paediatric and adults.
* Training and interest in laparoscopic benign upper gastrointestinal and/or laparoscopic benign biliary surgery.
* A wide range of clinical skills and practice in the specialty.
* IT skills.
* A commitment to the development of a high quality cost effective service to the local community.
* Advanced communications skills training.
* Energy, enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure.
Desirable
* GI endoscopy skills.
Professional Values & Behaviours, Skills and Knowledge
Essential
* Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework (or equivalent for dentists).
* Demonstrates the underpinning subject‑specific competences i.e., knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
* Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment.
* Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients; employing expertise and clinical decision‑making skills of a senior and independent/autonomous practitioner. (All senior doctors/dentists (including consultants and GPs) work independently/autonomously to a level of defined competencies, as agreed within local clinical governance frameworks.)
* Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
* Communicates effectively and is able to share decision‑making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person‑centred approach to their care, including self‑management.
* Respects patients' dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist, e.g., using interpreters and making adjustments for patients with communication difficulties.
* Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent; ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.
* Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression.
* Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and deprivation of liberty; data protection; equality and diversity.
* Applies basic principles of public health; including population health, promoting health and wellbeing, work, nutrition, exercise, vaccination and illness prevention, as relevant to their specialty.
Leadership & Team working
Essential
* Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex, or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
* Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams – promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working.
* Critically reflects on decision‑making processes and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
* Demonstrates ability to challenge others, escalating concerns when necessary.
Desirable
* Demonstrates understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques so can adapt leadership behaviours to improve engagement and outcomes – appreciates own leadership style and its impact on others.
* Critically appraises performance of self, colleagues or peers and systems to enhance performance and support development.
* Develops practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments.
Patient Safety & Quality Improvement
Essential
* Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
* Applies basic human factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisation and system levels.
* Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
* Advocates for, and contributes to, organisational learning.
* Seeks feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in safety and quality service improvements reviews.
* Leads new practice and service redesign in response to feedback, evaluation and need, promoting best practice.
* Evaluates and audits own and others' clinical practice and acts on the findings.
* Reflects on personal behaviour and practice, responding to learning opportunities.
* Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact.
* Critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of audit, inquiries, critical incidents, or complaints and implements appropriate changes.
* Engages with relevant stakeholders to develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups
Essential
* Recognises and takes responsibility for safeguarding children, young people and adults, using appropriate systems for identifying, sharing information, recording and raising concerns, obtaining advice and taking action.
* Applies appropriate equality and diversity legislation, including disability discrimination requirements, in the context of patient care.
Education & Training
Essential
* Critically assesses own learning needs and ensures a personal development plan reflects both clinical practice and the relevant generic capabilities to lead and develop services.
* Promotes and participates in individual and team learning; supporting the educational needs of individuals and teams for uni‑professional, multidisciplinary and interprofessional learning.
* Identifies and creates safe and supportive working and learning environments.
* Can act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach, or mentor for medical and non‑medical practitioners.
* Creates effective learning opportunities and provides developmental feedback, both verbally and in writing, to learners and doctors/dentists in training as required by the role.
* Plans and provides effective teaching and training activities as required by the role.
* Understands how to raise concerns about the behaviour or performance of any learner who is under their clinical supervision (leadership).
* Takes part in patient education.
Research & Scholarship
Essential
* Keeps up to date with current research and best practice in the individual's specific area of practice, through appropriate continuing professional development activities and their own independent study and reflection.
* Locates and uses clinical guidelines appropriately.
* Communicates and interprets research evidence in a meaningful way for patients to support shared decision‑making.
Desirable
* Critically appraises and understands the relevance of the literature, conducting literature searches and reviews; disseminates best practice including from quality improvement projects.
* Works towards identifying the need for further research to strengthen the evidence base or where there are gaps in knowledge, networking with teams within and outside the organisation.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a window).
Employer Details
Employer name: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT
Address: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gayton Road, King’s Lynn, PE30 4ET
Employer's website: https://www.qehkl.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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