Consultant in Gastroenterology with an interest in Nutrition

Consultant in Gastroenterology with an interest in Nutrition

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area: Gastroenterology
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time / Part time (10 sessions per week)
Job ref: 381-ME-7012296

Site: SWB NHS Trust-MMUH
Town: Smethwick
Salary: £105,504 – £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.

Job overview

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated substantive Consultant in Gastroenterology to support and expand the high-quality services our Trust already offers. The successful candidate will complement the expertise of eleven other existing consultants in our large teaching trust, providing gastroenterology, hepatology, and endoscopy to a culturally diverse population.

Main duties of the job

You will join a team of 11 Consultants and a wider team of Clinical Endoscopists and Specialist Nurses for IBD, Liver, and Upper GI Cancer. Our department has a reputation for being friendly and supportive with particularly good working relationships, and there is capacity for a wide variety of sub-specialty interests to be accommodated and developed.

We have a 7-day GI bleed service including weekend ward rounds, and you will be expected to join the on-call rota. This post does not include on-call for general (internal) medicine. The Gastroenterology service is supported by comprehensive endoscopy, GI physiology, pathology, and imaging services. We perform diagnostic & therapeutic procedures including Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy, EMR for Complex polyps, ERCP, EUS, RFA, Duette EMR, and Bowel Cancer screening. We have also started a Trans nasal Endoscopy service and have been performing cytosponge as well.

Consultant Gastroenterology Physicians must hold full GMC registration with a licence to practice and be on the Specialist Register or be within six months of obtaining your CCT award at the time of interview.

Person specification

Qualifications:

• Entry on the Specialist Register in Gastroenterology (or CCT expected within 6 months from the date of interview)

Clinical Experience:

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining CCT in Gastroenterology and General (internal medicine)
• Special interest that complements the existing consultants
• Specialist interest in Nutrition

Clinical Effectiveness

• Experience of conducting clinical audit

Teaching and Training experience:

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines
• Formal training in teaching

Research, Innovation and Service Improvement Experience:

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals in the last five years
• Evidence of having undertaken original research

Other Requirements:

• Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practise

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.

Name: Dr Imran Ghanghro
Job title: Specialty Lead & Consultant in Gastroenterology
Email address:
Telephone number: 0121 554 3801

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