Location: Southwest - Dorset County
Availability: Weekend and Weekday Sessions
Rates: Competitive
Are you a Colorectal Consultant looking for additional work? Here at 18 Week Support, we have an exciting opportunity to support a well-established NHS Trust in the Southwest area within a busy Colorectal service.
Clinical responsibilities
- Assess, diagnose and manage patients with colorectal diseases in outpatient clinics, inpatient wards and emergency settings.
- Perform elective and emergency colorectal surgery, including open, laparoscopic and other appropriate minimally invasive procedures within the surgeon’s competence.
- Manage colorectal cancer, diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel disease, rectal prolapse, haemorrhoids, anal fistulas, fissures and other benign and malignant conditions.
- Undertake appropriate diagnostic procedures, including colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy, where trained and credentialed.
- Provide perioperative care, including preoperative assessment, consent, postoperative monitoring, complication management and follow-up.
- Participate in emergency general surgery rotas and provide specialist advice for acute surgical admissions.
- Coordinate patient care with oncologists, radiologists, gastroenterologists, pathologists, specialist nurses and other relevant professionals.
- Recognise and manage clinical deterioration, escalating care when required.
Essential
- GMC registration with a licence to practise.
- Current experience working within a surgical setting for a minimum of 6 months within the last 12 months.
- Proven NHS experience.
- Knowledge of colorectal cancer, benign colorectal conditions, perioperative care and relevant clinical guidelines
- Competence in appropriate elective and emergency colorectal procedures
- Excellent communication and multidisciplinary team-working skills.
- Commitment to patient safety, professional development and high-quality clinical care.
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