*Job Overview
Locum Consultant Surgeon
Full Time - 10 sessions per week
Fixed Term - 6 months
Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Closing Date: 6th September 2025
Interview Date: 15th September 2025*
* This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.**
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
#JoinTeamEliot
The successful applicant will provide general and colorectal surgical services (with an interest to develop and paediatric service with an external unit) to the community served by the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.
You will play a key role with colleagues across the directorates of Surgery, Medicine and Urgent and Emergency Care in further developing general surgical services. You will work amongst the Directorate of Surgery, in particularly the General Surgery Services alongside General and Upper GI surgeons.
All staff support and ancillary facilities are in place. This is an exciting time to join the team at George Eliot with the development of two new surgical wards, alongside a purpose built Endoscopy suite.
We welcome informal visits and enquiries.
Main duties of the job
* Take ongoing responsibility for patients under his/her care.
* Provide a consultation service and advisory service to other clinical colleagues in other specialties within the Trust and Primary Care.
* Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with medical colleagues in other specialties and participate in regular clinical meetings and other post graduate activities. Develop and maintain good communications with General practitioners and appropriate external agencies.
* Participate and encourage two-way communications encompassing briefing systems as appropriate.
* Comply with all relevant Trust Policies and Procedures.
* Ensure that all trust wide standards are maintained to improve the quality of total care to all who come in contact with services provided by GEH.
* Ensure compliance with all appropriate legal and statutory requirements, including Health and Safety, Standing financial Instructions and Incident Reporting.
* Share responsibility for data protection arising out of the use of computers.
* Demonstrate a firm involvement in Clinical Governance, Risk Management and Clinical Audit – this will include the development and maintenance of appropriate systems and practices to ensure continued safe clinical practice.
Working for our organisation
Here At George Eliot Our Vision To '
Excel At Patient Care'
Takes Centre Stage. An Ever Evolving Clinically-led Acute Service Provider We Are On a Journey To Continually Provide High Quality, Safe And Responsive Services Delivered By Inspiring, Friendly And Compassionate Staff Who Share Our Corporate Values Which Underpin Everything We Do. Our Values Are Not Just Words On a Piece Of Paper, They Bond Us Together, Reflect Our Ambition And Shape Who We Are:
E
ffective Open Communication
e
x
cellence and safety in everything we do
C
hallenge but support
E
xpect respect and dignity
L
ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits:
On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
*Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities*
The main purpose of this post is to support the Department and the Trust is maintaining a high quality service and to improve and maintain the RTT standards. This post is being offered on a period of 6 months fixed term, and interest in paediatric surgery would be beneficial.
Our surgical department provides a comprehensive and high quality general surgical service including advanced laparoscopic surgery. Your laparoscopic surgical skills will add great value to the already existing surgical service.
Person specification
*Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria*
* Clinical training and experience in General Surgery and Endoscopy
* Ability to offer expert opinion in a range of problems covering elective and emergency problems within the speciality
* Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
* Adequate experience in operating on hot gall bladders
*Essential Criteria
Qualifications and Professional Training*
* Full GMC registration
* Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register
* Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
Desirable criteria
* CCT (or CESR) in General Surgery
*Skills And Abilities
Essential criteria*
* Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff
* Ability to teach clinical and operative skills
* Ability to apply research outcomes to the clinical and surgical problems
Desirable criteria
* Experience of teaching basis clinical skills to undergraduates
Personal Qualities
*Essential Criteria*
* Ability to work in a team
* Positive interpersonal skills
* Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GP's, nurses and other stakeholders
* Commitment to continuing medical education