Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months, potential to extend if both parties in agreement.)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (on-call cover required as part of role)
- Job ref
- 423-7344382
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Keighley
- Salary
- £61,542 - £99,216 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor - Gastroenterology
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
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.
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Job overview
- A 1 year contract for a speciality doctor working in gastroenterology
- Following a period of training and shadowing the post holder will hold 2 x clinics and up to 2 x endoscopy lists per week
- Work under the supervision of Gastroenterology consultants to provide inpatient cover on our wards, including
• Reviewing inpatients cared for by another speciality whose team have requested gastroenterology input
• Acute inpatient endoscopy - Participate in the GI bleed rota
- 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.
Main duties of the job
Attend regular endoscopy audit and business meetings.
Input into endoscopy training for our MDT colleagues where appropriate.
Participating in managing referrals to gastroenterology from primary care and other specialities – triage of referrals, advice and guidance etc (full training will be provided).
Extension of contract also possible at same grade if both applicant and hospital in agreement to continue.
In terms of providing cover from an upper GI Bleed perspective; there is a 1 in 7 on call. There is no commitment to the General Medicine on call rota.
Participate in research, audit and service development within the department and support undertaking of clinical trials as required.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBChB or equivalent
- GMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (PhD; MD) or MPhil
- Resuscitation Council Advanced Life Support Qualification
Communication
Essential criteria
- Express complex ideas easily and simply in reports, paper and letters
- Communicate comprehensibly with the health and educational community; users and carers
Organistion & Planning
Essential criteria
- Highly self-motivated, flexible, and able to organise time and workload in demanding NHS and academic environments
- Imaginative, creative and inquisitive
- Willingness to work across gastroenterology outpatients, gastroenterology inpatients and endoscopy
Quality Improvement & Research
Desirable criteria
- An acknowledged expert for research in a particular aspect of healthcare education / clinical practice
- Post-MD / PhD research experience
- Experience within a research teaA significant contribution to research publication m
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Shenderey
- Job title
- Consultant Gastroenterologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292368
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