Consultant Hepatologist in London

Main area: Hepatology

Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week (10 Sessions Per week)

Job ref: 213-MED-DH

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Site: Denmark Hill, London

Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 per annum excl London Zone Allowance

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 21/06/

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a new Consultant post within Hepatology, based at King’s College Hospital (Denmark Hill), with responsibilities across both hospital and community settings. The postholder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality specialist hepatology care for both inpatients and outpatients, while leading the development of community-based services.

A key focus of the role is to support the development of community hepatology pathways, including early cancer diagnosis, viral hepatitis management, and strengthening primary care pathways. The postholder will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Liver Unit, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy Care Group, General Medicine, and external partners across primary, secondary, and tertiary care.

Main duties of the job:

• Maintain the highest clinical standards in the management of hepatology patients, both inpatient and outpatient, and contribute to the care of general medical inpatients.
• Participate in the General Hepatology and General Medicine rota, providing 24/7 consultant cover alongside colleagues.
• Lead and support the development of community hepatology services, with a focus on early cancer diagnosis, viral hepatitis, and primary care pathways.
• Work collaboratively across primary, secondary, and tertiary care to enhance regional hepatology services and patient pathways.
• Provide clinical supervision, teaching, and training for junior medical staff, students, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Contribute to clinical governance, including audit, quality improvement, morbidity and mortality review, and learning from deaths.
• Participate in research activities in line with Trust priorities, including clinical and translational research.
• Support departmental and divisional objectives, including service development, business planning, and operational delivery.
• Exercise professional leadership within the specialty, supporting staff development, appraisal, and maintaining high standards of care.
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, including infection prevention and control, and maintain engagement in continuing professional development (CPD/CME).

Working for our organisation: King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us. Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon. We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year. We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Together with other colleagues, to provide a high-quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues and responsible also for covering colleagues' periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
• Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.
• Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
• Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.
• Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.
• Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
• Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
• Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.
• Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
• Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.
• Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.
• King’s is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.

Person specification:

• Qualifications & Higher Qualifications:
• Full MRCP or equivalent
• Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD or PhD)
• Full Registration with GMC
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
• On the day of interview applicants must be within 6 months of CCT, in final stages of their portfolio pathway application, or be fully registered on the GMC Specialist Register. Any applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered.

• Training and Experience:
• Wide experience in all aspects of Hepatology, culminating in award of CCT or equivalent in Gastroenterology/Hepatology.
• Wide experience in all aspects of General Medicine, culminating in award of CCT or equivalent.
• Award of CCT or equivalent in General Medicine.

• Administration:
• Experience in day to day organisation of General Medical services in a busy Teaching Hospital.
• Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills.
• Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.

• Management and Leadership:
• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Management course and/or qualification.

• Audit and Quality Improvement:
• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.

• Research and Publications:
• Experience of clinical research.
• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
• Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Hepatology.

• Teaching:
• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.
• Teaching skills course/qualification.

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.