6 Month Fixed Term Colorectal Consultant

The post represents an exciting 6-month opportunity to join a dynamic surgical team in General Surgery.
The GI department comprises of 8 (7.5 WTE) colorectal (including one clinical academic) and 6 WTE upper GI surgeons. The team is part of the rota providing 24-hour emergency surgical care at North Bristol NHS Trust. NBT is also a major trauma centre and the postholder will manage trauma cases when doing emergency general surgery on-call. The colorectal team treated 2049 emergency patients, 1600 outpatients, 190 colorectal cancers, 750 elective procedures and 1900 endoscopy procedures last year.
The emergency general surgical take has evolved over the past decade in both volume and complexity and the proportion of the colorectal surgical workload presenting and being managed acutely has increased significantly. The gastrointestinal surgery team at NBT provide a subspecialist upper and lower GI take. We have a co-located medical and surgical SDEC unit. The surgical SDEC unit includes other surgical specialties such as urology and neurosurgery.
This post is needed to cover a 3-month leave of absence for an existing colorectal surgeon. This surgeon is a robotic cancer surgeon performing complex pelvic surgery. The postholder will perform some cancer resections but will focus mainly on benign conditions. They will participate in the full on-call rota. As this cover is for a robotic surgeon, there will be some flexibility in the job plan as if there is availability of the robot, we need to maximise use, meaning that this postholder might be redirected to alternative clinical commitments. The post holder will also do a hot list alternate weeks.
North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) is a progressive and ambitious provider of health services, delivering for a large local population and providing specialist regional services. With a turnover of £550m and 9,000 staff, our clinical teams have built a strong reputation for exceptional healthcare. North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South West region, and one of the largest trusts in the country. Last year the Trust treated over 100,000 inpatients, over 350,000 outpatients, 90,000 emergency department patients and helped deliver over 6,000 babies. It employs more than 9,500 staff, has approximately 1,050 inpatient beds and income in excess of £540 million.
The Trust provides medical, surgical, and maternity care for its local population of approximately a million people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The Trust also provides regional services in Neurosciences, Orthopaedics, Pathology, Plastic Surgery and Burns, Renal Medicine, Vascular, Transplant and Urology. NBT is also a major trauma centre.
In 2014 the Trust moved most of its acute services to the Brunel Building on the Southmead Hospital site, which is regarded as one of the best hospital facilities in Europe. Other services based on the Southmead site include maternity and women’s health services, the Bristol Breast Care Centre and the Trust’s Severn Pathology service.
The health service in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire is being remodelled to concentrate acute facilities and, where appropriate, to provide more care close to patient homes through a network of community hospitals and facilities. As well as Southmead Hospital, the Trust also provides services from Cossham Hospital (Kingswood, Bristol) which recently completed a £19m refurbishment, the Bristol Centre for Enablement (Cribbs Causeway, Bristol) and the Trust also runs children’s community health services across Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
The Trust has University Teaching status and is associated with both the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England.
The post holder must be fully registered with the General Medical Council with a licence to practise and is advised to maintain up to date membership of a recognised medical defence organisation. The Trust has arrangements in place to ensure that all medical staff receive an annual appraisal with a trained appraiser and supports all medical staff through the revalidation process.
The Trust has a list of identified mentors which is used to allocate a suitable support to new consultants during the first year in post
The appointee will be required to stay within a distance that allows safe discharge of all clinical commitments and no more 30 minutes travelling of your base hospital whilst on call.
An applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post; if such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed with the Trusts on a personal basis in consultation with consultant colleagues.
Consultant appointments are made to North Bristol NHS Trust as services are developed and changed, the base of posts may alter and any employee of the Trust will be expected, within an agreed clinical strategy, to move his/her sessions as the service requires.
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