Locum Consultant in Pancreatic Surgery

6 days ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds Teaching Hospitals Full time
Job Summary

This is a 10 PA locum appointment for a Consultant Surgeon, with a special interest in Pancreatic Surgery. The post will be available immediately for a period of 6 months.

Main Duties of the Job

Deliver care to patients with pancreatic conditions within Leeds and the surrounding areas.

Out-patient clinics

Supervision of patients

Care of acute patients on a 1 in 10 basis

Contribute to Specialist Multi-disciplinary team meetings

Link with Consultant colleagues in other relevant site specialist teams within the West Yorkshire region.

Work with colleagues in General Surgery to deliver acute on call (currently 1 in 10) This includes both out-of-hours cover in addition to acute ward rounds during normal working hours.

Lead academic clinical and basic science projects within our research group. Obtain funding for academic projects. The post holder will be encouraged to facilitate and contribute to the current clinical research programs on going in the department.

Contribute to teaching, and new developments within the Trust.

The appointee will be expected to contribute and, where appropriate, take the lead in the following:

Mortality and morbidity meetings;

Clinical audit programmes;

Development and application of agreed clinical guidelines.

Please see the job description and person specification.

About Us

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centered

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job Responsibilities

This post is a locum post for a period of a maximum of 6 months.

BACKGROUND

This is a 10 PA locum appointment for a Consultant Surgeon, with special interests in Pancreatic Surgery,

This post will deliver 10 PAs supporting the Pancreas Team.

The post will be based at St James University Hospital. You will be joining a team of 5 Pancreatic consultants who currently provide the full range of Pancreatic and general surgical services both benign and malignant.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE POST

General Training and Qualifications

The appointee must hold accreditation in General Surgery in the Royal College of Surgeons or equivalent and have completed higher specialist training or equivalent if currently in a training programme within the UK.

Applicants must be on the Specialist Register or within six months of being admitted to the Register for trainees if currently in a training programme within the UK or have references which have been authorised by the Deputy Medical Director and Clinical Director.

Applicants must provide information regarding their status from the GMC and/or relevant Royal College at the time of application, in order for their application to be progressed further.

Experience

The appointee must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of general surgery and appropriate experience in general surgery and in particular pancreatic surgery.

Clinical Audit

The appointee will be expected to contribute and, where appropriate, take the lead in the following:

Mortality and morbidity meetings;

Clinical audit programmes;

Development and application of agreed clinical guidelines.

This is to be included in allocated time in the individual's job plan as a supporting programmed activity. It would be expected that the time allocated for this would include attendance at the relevant departmental audit meetings and that such attendance would be recorded in accordance with the Trust's clinical audit policy.

In the discharge of these responsibilities the candidate will be expected to maintain and update his/her skills and knowledge through appropriate continuing medical education.

TEACHING

The Trust as a teaching hospital recognises the importance of links with the University of Leeds, School of Medicine for the undergraduate teaching and all Consultant and medical staff are required to provide an appropriate contribution to the undergraduate teaching programme.

The post-holder will be required to participate in the undergraduate teaching programme for the school of Medicine, University of Leeds, which is organised on a speciality or clinical area basis.

The post-holder will be required to collaborate with clinical colleagues to deliver appropriate undergraduate teaching in accordance with the Trust contract with the NHS Executive in association with the University of Leeds.

The appointee will be expected, with colleagues to also contribute to the teaching of postgraduates, including the teaching programme for SpRs in Pancreatic and General Surgery in the Local Education and Training Board.

JOB PLAN AND WORKING ARRANGEMENTS

The job plan review will take place annually, normally with the Clinical Director or Lead Clinician for Pancreatic Surgery.

The annual job plan review may result in a revised job plan. There may be an interim review of the job plan where duties, responsibilities, accountability arrangements or objectives have changed or need to change significantly within the area.

Proposed Job Plan

The post consists of 10 PAs with PAs of direct clinical care DCC and PAs of supporting professional activity SPA.

Please note that this post has the opportunity to apply for funding for research PAs. If the applicant is successful in the bid for funding, DCC PAs will be converted into research PAs.

Please see attachments for full Job Description

ENQUIRIES

Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the Departments and are invited to contact the recruiting manager.



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