Consultant in Gastroenterology – 1 vacancy
Full time
Salary scale: £74,804 – £100,446 (dependant on experience)
Based: Royal Hampshire County Hospital

Applicants will be expected to have suitable experience in gastroenterology and general medicine as a component of the post will be to provide emergency and general medicine to all adult age groups.

Acute medical cover is now primarily provided by three Acute Physicians who are responsible for covering the 26 bed Emergency Medical Assessment Unit. A ‘Physician of the week’ system is in operation on a 1:12 week rota covering evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

- To, at all times, comply with the GMC requirements of Duties of a Doctor
- To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan in so far as practicable and in agreement with your Clinical Director.
-To be responsible and managerially accountable for the reasonable and effective use of any Trust resources that you use and influence, and professionally accountable to the Medical Director.
- To be responsible for the clinical management of in and out patients under your care.
- Participate in the ‘physician of the week’ on-take arrangements for the admission of emergency patients, 1:12, weekends (Friday afternoon until Monday 8am) and to conform to the organisational arrangements that are component to it.
- Participate in the ‘out-of-hours’ on call service for gastroenterology emergencies, 1:6, rota with prospective cover.
- To maintain a job plan which is representative of the proposed and agreed timetable cycle and that reflects a fair proportion of the overall workload of the other three GI consultants.

WEHCT is an integrated acute and community Trust providing a full range of services for a population of 280,000 stretching from Eastleigh in the south to Andover in the north encompassing both rural and urban communities. In November 2010 there was an agreement, in principle, for a merger with the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, which will result in a combined population of 550,000. Discussions are in progress as to how this may result in any integration of care within the Division of Medicine.

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Reference: PERM-65545

To apply for this post, please complete the 3-part application form below, providing as much information as possible, attach your CV at part 1 and click on ‘Send Email’. The more information you can provide us, the better your chance of getting through the initial pre-screening stage.

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Part 3 - Current post

What type of hospital are you working in, eg, private, state etc? How many beds?

What is the team structure? How many doctors work in your department? What grade do you report to?

Have there been any clinical complaints against you in the last five years? If yes, please provide information on separate sheet as to status/outcome.

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Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust

Consultant – Winchester, UK