Job summary
- Main area
- ENT
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (ft)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 275-2506-SDENT-SB
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 Per Annum/Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in ENT
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Job overview
Specialty Doctor in ENT
Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics
Care Group: Theatres and Anaesthesia.
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 per annum / pro rata
We are recruiting for a Specialty Doctor in ENT who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
To provide a service for ENT to the hospital and community designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.
The post holder will provide an ENT service to Medway NHS Foundation Trust and Darent Valley Hospital, along with the ENT Emergency Service across West Kent. Candidates must hold full registration with the General Medical Council.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment. Our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible to and work under the supervision of ENT Consultants. The post holder will be expected to participate in the day to day activities of the department in co-operation with the ENT team.
The post holder will provide ward rounds, administrative and audit duties.
The successful candidate is advised to participate in research projects and to attend various departmental teaching seminars and regional/ national postgraduate meetings.
The post holder duties will ensure that he/she continues to gain appropriate clinical ENT experience.
The post holder is expected to start the day promptly to receive any hand-over patients admitted the night before, continuity of care for in-patients and participate in Consultant ward rounds.
The successful candidate is expected to be flexible in the exact hours worked each day. It is also expected that the Specialty Doctor will ensure that the Electronic Discharge Notifications are completed and accurate.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration with licence to practise
- FRCS, MRCS or equivalent qualification
- MBBS (or equivalent)
- Shall have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training, at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty, or have equivalent experience.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Appropriate level of clinical knowledge
- Knowledge and use of evidence based practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Capacity to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems
- Demonstrates appropriate technical and clinical competence and evidence of the development of diagnostic skills and clinical judgement
- Evidence of an interest and commitment to teaching
Value Based Question
Essential criteria
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Audrey Najuko
- Job title
- ENT Departmental Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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