Stroke Consultant

Job overview

Applications are invited for one post of Consultant in Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery with East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust. Applicants should be well trained in general ENT surgery and should have developed an interest in Head & Neck surgery.

We equally encourage applicants that may have planned a post certification fellowship to hone their sub-specialist interest in Head & Neck surgery.

You will help to lead an excellent multi-disciplinary team in a department that has a tradition or promoting innovation and development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant led service with the highest standard of care. Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines. Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, outpatients and the ED department. Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care. Offer educational, clinical support and leadership and junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary. Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility. Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained. Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated. Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements. Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the trust’s agreed policy.

Working for our organisation

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be:

Provide cover as an ENT surgeon but will have a special interest To play an active part in education programmes for junior medical staff, including formal teaching sessions and clinical audits relevant to the needs of the unit. To teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate. Issuing of advice to GPs on suitability of patients for referral to hospital

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

Full registration with the General Medical Council with a licence to practice Entry on Specialist Register (or entry expected within 6 months) FRCS ORL-HNS or equivalent At least 5 years at HST level (or equivalent) Experience of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching Ability to lead and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team Ability to supervise, appraise, coach and mentor trainee and other doctors

Desirable criteria

Fellowship Evidence of work submitted for Peer review Evidence of having undertaken audit work that has brought about change Evidence of having undertaken original research Management training and experience Live within a 10-mile radius of the relevant hospital site or within 30 minutes’ drive.

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