Locum Emergency General Surgery Consultant with Colorectal Interest

Job overview

This is a 10 PA post for a Consultant Emergency General Surgery Surgeon with an interest in colorectal at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals. This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the service that we provide to our population. This is an exciting post based at Queens Hospital with cross site working. The successful applicant will support the current delivery of general surgical services, including contribution to the delivery of colorectal and LGI 2ww services. He will join with the existing team to provide specialist care to the growing population of our patients, manage the emergency surgical service and elective service (including CEPOD service) and raise departmental profiles through research, teaching and education. The post will include contribution to the delivery of LGI FDS and elective benign services. The General Surgery department is dynamic, enthusiastic and forward looking with a holistic patient centered outlook providing emergency and elective general surgery.  The department is formed of upper GI, colorectal, breast (including onco-plastic), urology, vascular and acute emergency surgical services.

Main duties of the job

Our General Surgery service is delivered at both King George Hospital and Queen’s Hospital. There is one general surgery ward at King George Hospital and three wards at Queen’s Hospital. The service provides a comprehensive range of General and Vascular Surgery services delivered by 32 Consultants. General surgery has a bed base at both sites and also has a dedicated 24 hour on call team on both sites with all emergency surgical management being undertaken at Queen’s Hospital. We have a busy emergency surgery service with a set CEPOD and on call rota.

The appointee will have broad training in general surgery, be able to provide an on call and CEPOD service in general surgery and have adequate training in colorectal surgery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide high-quality emergency care as part of the surgical team and provide comprehensive management of patients

• Provide general surgery acute oncall, 1:12 and be responsible for the ward patients and contribute to CEPOD on the rota.

• Contribute to look after colorectal & emergency surgery team ward patients

• Attend weekly multidisciplinary meetings.

• Supervision and management of junior medical staff.

For full details, please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification