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Main area
Gastroenterology
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
10 sessions per week
Job ref
423-4436181-H
Employer
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Airedale General Hospital
Town
Keighley
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant in Gastroenterology YC72 (Attracts RRP)

Consultant

Be part of our future landscape

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.  

We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

These are exciting times for Airedale.  We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030.  By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.

 

Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our award-winning District General Hospital.

Benefits:

  • £15,000 welcome premium and up to £13,000 relocation expenses.
  • Work life balance with no commitment to general medicine on call rota.
  • Additional 1PA induction and leadership development time for 1st year.

(£8,000 relocation fee with option to negotiate an additional £5k with evidence and in line with current policy. The additional payment is subject to tax in line with HMRC rules).

 

We are looking for a Gastroenterology Consultant to join our team. If you have a particular area of special interest there will likely be scope to lead, develop and shape services in your area of expertise.

We have a 3-room endoscopy unit with close links to Leeds University. There are two registrars as part of our team. We see the full range of Gastroenterology conditions in our practice and have close links to hospitals across West Yorkshire. This is a particular exciting time for our team with leadership opportunities in helping plan our new hospital which will be built on our current site.

 

Main duties of the job

We provide Gastroenterology services to serve our local population.  As you would expect this involves inpatient duties, support for primary care, endoscopy services, research, educational work and supervision duties.

Inpatient Duties

  • To work with other gastroenterologist to provide inpatient cover for gastroenterology patients requiring inpatients care on our base wards.
  • Reviewing in-patients cared for by another speciality whose team have requested gastroenterology input.
  • Rotation of Consultants in inpatient work.
  • Acute in-patients' endoscopy

Outpatient Duties

  • Regular commitment to outpatient gastroenterology clinics and /or hepatology clinics. Most of our clinics are face to face but there is also capacity for phone and video clinics. Airedale as a trust is renowned for its expertise in telemedicine.
  • There is an expectation to provide supervision to specialist nurses and registrars in an outpatient setting.

 

 

Working for our organisation

Our award winning hospital is also in an award winning location providing genuine opportunities for a great work-life balance. Yorkshire has recently been voted as the third best region in the world by Lonely Planet, and our local town of Skipton has been voted as the best place to live in the UK by the Sunday Times, commending its top class schools, great transport links, low crime and beautiful surrounding countryside.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information and for full details of the role please see the attached job description and information pack.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MBChB or equivalent
  • Possession of MRCP, FRCP or equivalent
  • Possession of CCST / CCT in GIM (or be within 6 months of obtaining) or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Possession of a higher degree (PhD; MD) or MPhil

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant experience in organisation and undertaking clinical audit / appraisal
  • Willingness to deploy a telemedicine mode of consultations

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardDisability Confident - two yearsNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr R Shenderey
Job title
Consultant in Gastroenterology and Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01535 292368
Additional information

Dr S West

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Telephone: 01535 292347

[email protected]

 

 

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