Job summary
- Main area
- Ear, Nose &Throat
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (as per job description)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (as per job description)
- Job ref
- 293-Consultant-368
- Employer
- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum ENT Consultant Surgeon with a specialist interest in Otology
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Advert
Job overview
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to invite applications for a Consultant ENT Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in Otology and Balance. This is a 12-month fixed-term post, developed in response to current service needs within our well-regarded ENT department. While initially offered on a fixed-term basis, there is funding in place and a possibility that the post may progress to a substantive position, subject to future Trust approval.
Main duties of the job
The provisional job plan is equivalent to 10 programmed activities (PAs) and is detailed in the accompanying schedule. This will be subject to review as part of the annual job planning process, to be undertaken within 12 months of appointment.
Please view job description for the full schedule of the provisional job plan.
Working for our organisation
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care trust which provides hospital and community health services for Hackney, the City and surrounding communities. The Trust provides a full range of adult, older people’s and children’s services across medical and surgical specialties.
The trust operates acute services from a single site: Homerton University Hospital, which opened in 1986. Based on an aggregation of ratings across all of the core services provided from the hospital, the hospital has been rated by Care Quality Commission as ‘Outstanding’. The hospital has almost 500 beds spread across 11 wards, a ten-bed intensive care unit and maternity, paediatric and neonatal wards. Community services are provided by staff working out of 75 partner sites in Hackney and the City of London. The trust has a separate registration to provide continuing health care at the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
The hospital has three day-surgery theatres and six main operating theatres for all types of general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, gynaecology, maxillo-facial, urology, ENT, obesity, bariatrics and obstetrics. We also have a surgical treatment room within the main theatres complex.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Consultants will have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of their departments.
Consultants will undertake administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their clinics or department. All Consultants are expected to assume responsibility both singly and corporately for the management of the Junior Medical Staff. In particular, they are expected to be responsible for approving and monitoring junior staff rotas and junior staff locum arrangements, where appropriate.
The successful applicant will be expected to participate fully in the medical audit arrangements. Consultants are also expected to concern themselves with the professional development of their trainees and allied health professional colleagues.
All Consultants have a responsibility to contribute to the teaching and assessment of undergraduates
and of junior doctors. Consultants are expected to continue with all aspects of professional development to allow successful appraisal and revalidation.
For full details of the role please view the job description and person specification.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Frcs (ORL–HNS) Or Equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Higher Degree – BSC Ms Md PhD Or Equivalent.
REGISTRATION
Essential criteria
- Registered On Gmc Specialist Register Or Within 6 Months Of Obtaining It At The Time Of The Interview.
Desirable criteria
- Post CCT Fellowship or NHS Consultant Experience.
SPECIALTY/SUB-SPECIALTY
Essential criteria
- Broad Based General Professional Training In Adult +/- Paediatric Ent.
- Subspecialist Training In Otology.
Desirable criteria
- Post-CCT Otology Or Balance Fellowship Training Post.
RESEARCH/PUBLICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Evidence Of Ongoing Interest And Achievement In Research.
- Knowledge of Research Methodology
Desirable criteria
- Publications In Peer Review Journals.
- Training In Research Methodology.
MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT
Essential criteria
- Understanding the Principles Of Clinical Governance and Its Implications.
- Understanding and Experience of Audit.
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Service Audit, Design or Change Management.
- Audits and Quality Improvement Work.
- Evidence of Pathway Understanding/Work.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Llinares
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02085305130
- Additional information
For further information or to arrange a visit to the Department please contact the following:
- Mr Max Whittaker, Clinical Lead for ENT, Homerton Healthcare
Email: [email protected]
- Mr Hassan Elhassan, Tumour Site Lead for Head Neck-ENT, Homerton Healthcare
Email: [email protected]
List jobs with Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Medical and Dental or all sectors