At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic surgical team, delivering exceptional patient care and leading innovative projects.
- Company: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, known for excellence in healthcare and staff wellbeing.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, supportive environment, and opportunities for professional development.
- Other info: Join a diverse team committed to clinical excellence and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in healthcare while shaping the future of surgical services.
- Qualifications: Full GMC Registration and extensive experience in General Surgery, particularly UGI/HPB.
The predicted salary is between 113565 - 150569 £ per year.
The successful candidate will join a dynamic and supportive General Surgical team of 14 Consultants mainly based at King's Mill Hospital. The department provides comprehensive general surgical emergency and elective surgery, supported by the regional tertiary centre and is committed to delivering safe, personalised and compassionate care to patients across the region.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals has a strong culture of clinical excellence, innovation and staff engagement. Consultants are encouraged to contribute actively to service development, clinical leadership, quality improvement, education and training, and research activities. The department maintains excellent collaborative relationships with regional tertiary centres, ensuring patients have access to specialist services while enabling consultants to develop subspecialty interests and professional expertise.
King's Mill Hospital benefits from modern facilities, advanced diagnostics and a highly skilled multidisciplinary workforce. The hospital has been rated Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), reflecting the Trust's commitment to delivering exceptional patient care and fostering a positive working environment.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated General surgeon to join a forward-thinking NHS Foundation Trust with an excellent reputation for patient care, innovation and staff wellbeing, and to play a key role in shaping the future of health services for the population.
Main duties of the job
- Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
- To share best practice and promote team working within the General Surgical department and GI multidisciplinary team.
- Teaching and training of junior staff and medical students.
- To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.
- To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in continuing medical education (CME).
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.
Person Specification
- Qualifications
- Full GMC Registration
- Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination (FRCS or equivalent)
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview.
- Membership of Royal College of Surgeons
- Experience
- Successful completion of an appropriate SpR/ST/equivalent training programme
- Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan
- Ability to lead and maintain clinical credibility with a multi-professional team including senior trainees
- Extensive practical General Surgery experience, in particular UGI/HPB Surgery
- Capable of taking part in the emergency General Surgery on call rota (excluding vascular)
- Management & Administrative Experience
- Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload
- Teaching
- Demonstrable ability as a teacher with evidence of training for the role.
- Other
- Communication skills - to have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely & competently
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
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