Consultant Gastroenterologist

Role: Consultant Gastroenterologist - substantive or 12 month fixed term contract. Visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: £99,532 to £131,964 per year (dependent on experience)

Details: Cross site working across the Trusts two main sites can be accommodated to suit individual's needs/special interests. Participation on GIM on call rota is desirable (1:16 weekday & 1:8 weekends)

Location: Cardiff, South Wales

Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications

Essential

• Current GMC full registration & licence to practise, MRCP & entry on GMC specialist register for Gastroenterology or within 12 months of CCT date or within 12 months of expected Portfolio Pathway (previously CESR) approval.
• Ability to demonstrate independent clinical experience, knowledge and skill in Gastroenterology at Consultant level
• Must undertake scoping
• Minimum 6 months UK experience.
• CV must demonstrate the experience and competencies for this level/specialty.

Benefits:

• Access to the NHS Pension scheme
• Employee benefits such as sick pay and holiday pay
• Paid SPA sessions to facilitate your ongoing CPD
• Working in a beautiful town near the seaside

As a Consultant in Gastroenterology, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the provision of Endoscopy services throughout the hospital, particularly diagnostic, therapeutic, and screening endoscopy.

Working flexibly at this NHS trust, you will enjoy close working relationships with your fellow healthcare professionals as you work to ensure the highest standards of care are provided to patients of all ages while being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior Gastroenterologists.

The trust takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical equipment in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism, research and academia throughout your consultancy.

In your role as a Consultant, great reliance is placed upon your ability to demonstrate how critical specialist skills and communication combine to ensure a patient's care experience is the best it can be. Your calm, reassuring nature combined with your wealth of knowledge and expertise will help ensure patients feel safe in your hands.

Main Duties/Responsibilities

As a Gastroenterology Consultant you will:

• Provide diagnosis, screening, treatment, preoperative, operative, and postoperative management of patient care.
• Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
• Coordinate treatment plans and prescribe various types of treatment.
• Provide constant monitoring and care for patients.
• Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
• Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
• Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
• Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
• Conduct research to help develop and test surgical techniques and equipment that can improve operating procedures and outcomes
• Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

So, if you are dedicated to achieving the very best outcomes for patients by combining skill and expertise with your ability to teach, coach and mentor junior medical staff, we want to hear from you. Apply today.