ENT Surgeon with a Spec Interest in Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base in Plymouth

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ENT Surgeon with a Spec Interest in Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base in Plymouth

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ENT Surgeon with a Spec Interest in Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Ear, Nose and Throat Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours

Full time
Flexible working

10 sessions per week Job ref 216-G1-ENT8239073

Site University Hospitals Plymouth Town Plymouth Salary £113,565 - £150,569 10 PA Salary period Yearly Closing 25/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 09/11/2026

Job overview

Provide comprehensive consultant-led care in rhinology, anterior skull base surgery and general ENT practice.
Deliver secondary and tertiary rhinology services including management of inflammatory sinonasal disease, revision endoscopic sinus surgery and complex sinonasal pathology.
Participate in the regional anterior skull base multidisciplinary service, working closely with Neurosurgery, Radiology, Pathology, Oncology and specialist nursing colleagues.
Contribute to the assessment and surgical management of patients with sinonasal tumours and other complex rhinological conditions.
Work collaboratively with Ophthalmology colleagues in the delivery of lacrimal services, including endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR).
Support established multidisciplinary pathways with Neurosurgery for endoscopic anterior skull base surgery.
Contribute to emergency ENT services through participation in a 1:8 on-call rota.
Support teaching, training, audit, clinical governance and research activities within the department.
Participate in service development and regional pathway delivery across Devon and Cornwall.

Main duties of the job

To provide a consultant-led ENT service with specialist expertise in advanced rhinology and anterior skull base surgery within the Peninsula's sole tertiary referral centre.

The successful candidate will become a member of the regional skull base multidisciplinary team, working closely with colleagues in Neurosurgery, Radiology, Pathology, Oncology and allied specialist services.

The role will support the continued delivery of comprehensive secondary and tertiary rhinology services across the Southwest Peninsula, including endoscopic sinus surgery, management of complex sinonasal disease and participation in established anterior skull base pathways. The post offers opportunities to contribute to service development, education, clinical governance and multidisciplinary working within a well-established consultant team.

Working for our organisation

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment manager for this post who will put you in touch with the recruitment team. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Job Role

The successful applicant will:

Provide comprehensive consultant-led care in rhinology, anterior skull base surgery and general ENT practice.
Deliver secondary and tertiary rhinology services including management of inflammatory sinonasal disease, revision endoscopic sinus surgery and complex sinonasal pathology.
Participate in the regional anterior skull base multidisciplinary service, working closely with Neurosurgery, Radiology, Pathology, Oncology and specialist nursing colleagues.
Contribute to the assessment and surgical management of patients with sinonasal tumours and other complex rhinological conditions.
Work collaboratively with Ophthalmology colleagues in the delivery of lacrimal services, including endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR).
Support established multidisciplinary pathways with Neurosurgery for endoscopic anterior skull base surgery.
Contribute to emergency ENT services through participation in a 1:8 on-call rota.
Support teaching, training, audit, clinical governance and research activities within the department.
Participate in service development and regional pathway delivery across Devon and Cornwall.

The department operates with a flexible and collegiate consultant structure to ensure sustainable delivery of both secondary and tertiary ENT services. The successful candidate will join an experienced and supportive consultant team with established subspecialty interests across rhinology, skull base surgery, head and neck surgery, otology and laryngology. The post offers opportunities to further develop multidisciplinary rhinology and anterior skull base services in collaboration with colleagues across the Trust and wider Peninsula network.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ATTRIBUTES

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

Full GMC registration
Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via CCT or CSER(CP) – proposed CCT/CESR(CP) date must be within 6 months of interview, CESR or European Community Rights.
Fellowship in advanced rhinology and anterior skull base surgery
Postgraduate awards and prizes
Other medical qualifications

Experience outside specialty

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Demonstrate evidence of good clinical training
Attend appropriate basic training courses
Ability to manage basic surgical conditions in children.
Demonstrate evidence of wide based knowledge
Attend appropriate courses/meetings in the last 6 years covering the spectrum of the entire speciality
Demonstrate evidence of having had a broad subspeciality training
Evidence of ability to perform advanced subspecialty procedures
Comprehensive knowledge of subspeciality subject
Attended subspeciality-specific meetings in the last 3 years
Attended advanced subspecialty specific courses
Comprehensive knowledge of subspeciality subject

Research

Evidence of a research interest
Published (or accepted for publication) as principal author in peer reviewed journal
Extensively published
Presentations at local/regional/national and international meetings
Publications and presentations in subspeciality subject
Demonstrate an enthusiasm to continue with research

Teaching

Demonstrate experience in having taught other junior doctors and undergraduates

Communication and interpersonal skills

Well-presented CV
Information technology skills
Demonstrate evidence of ability to communicate and co-operate well with both patients and other health care professionals as judged by the general contest of the CV

Management

Evidence of interest and ability in management

Undergraduate Teaching

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is one of the NHS partners of the University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School. The Directorate has a commitment to a significant part of the clinical undergraduate teaching programme. The post holder will be expected to participate in undergraduate teaching activities. Additional job planned sessions for protected teaching time would be agreed by mutual agreement with the Service Line Director. Such arrangements will be agreed within the Trusts' annual job planning and medical staff appraisal process.

Proposed Job Plan

Details of the proposed job plan should be set out below.

Whilst a standard job plan would consist of 10 PA’s, we would be able to consider whether the post could be undertaken on a flexible or less than full-time basis. On the appointment 1.5 SPA standard (1 SPA timetabled and 0.5 SPAs flexible). This may increase as the appointee becomes more involved in undergraduate or post graduate teaching or other department activities.

Type (DCC/SPA)

Monday

Admin

DCC

Clinic / LA rhinology list

DCC

Tuesday

Clinic

DCC

Clinic

DCC

OFF

Fortnightly paeds theare

DCC

0.625

Thursday

Head and Neck & Skull Base MDT

DCC

0.125

SPA

DCC

1.0

Friday

Theatre

DCC

1.25

Theatre

DCC

1.25

Additional

On call 1 in 8 weekdays, 1 in 8 weekends

(0.75PA unpredictable and 0.5 predictable to include post operative ward round)

SPA (Flexible)

DCC

SPA

1.25

0.5

Total DCC

8.5

Total SPA

1.5

Total PAs

Proposed Timetable

The job plan will be agreed on appointment the published Job plan is indicative

ON CALL Frequency of rota commitment

Category A (tick as appropriate)

Category B (tick as appropriate)

1 in 1 - 1 in 4 rota

1 in 5 – 1 in 8 rota

1 in 9 or less

Agreed PA value of on call

1.25

Agreed on call rota frequency

1 in 8 weekdays and weekends

Person specification

Full GMC registration Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via CCT or CSER(CP) – proposed CCT/CESR(CP) date must be within 6 months of interview, CESR or European Community Rights. Fellowship in advanced rhinology and anterior skull base surgery
Postgraduate awards and prizes
Other medical qualifications Experience outside specialty

Knowledge and Experience

Demonstrate evidence of good clinical training Attend appropriate basic training courses Ability to manage basic surgical conditions in children.
Demonstrate evidence of wide based knowledge
Attend appropriate courses/meetings in the last 6 years covering the spectrum of the entire speciality
Demonstrate evidence of having had a broad subspeciality training Evidence of ability to perform advanced subspecialty procedures Comprehensive knowledge of subspeciality subject
Attended subspeciality-specific meetings in the last 3 years
Attended advanced subspecialty specific courses

Research

Evidence of a research interest Published (or accepted for publication) as principal author in peer reviewed journal
Presentations at local/regional/national and international meetings
Publications and presentations in subspeciality subject
Demonstrate an enthusiasm to continue with research

Teaching

Demonstrate experience in having taught other junior doctors and undergraduates

Communication and interpersonal skills

Well-presented CV
Information technology skills
Demonstrate evidence of ability to communicate and co-operate well with both patients and other health care professionals as judged by the general contest of the CV

Management

Evidence of interest and ability in management

Medical/Doctor recruitment: Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details

University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.

In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.

We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.

Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.

In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

We’d love to hear from you if you feel you’re a great fit for the role - and that the role is right for you.Below, you’ll find more information about our recruitment process and what happens once you’ve submitted your application.

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