Consultant Gastroenterologist - South Wales, Cardiff

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Consultant Gastroenterologist – South Wales, Cardiff

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Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Consulting

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Yes

Job Reference:

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77

Posted:

18.02.2025

Expiry Date:

04.04.2025

Job Description:

Role: Consultant Gastroenterologist – permanent OR 12 month fixed term contract. Visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: Fixed term – £105,401 per year / Substantive – £91,722 to £119,079 dependant on experience

Details: Mon-Fri 0900-1700 + on calls. Multiple positions available:

• Consultant Gastroenterologist with an interest in intestinal failure / luminal Gastroenterology
• Consultant Gastroenterologist / Hepatologist with an interest in neuroendocrine tumours
• Consultant Gastroenterologist with an interest in IBD

Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications

• Be a GMC registered Doctor or, at least have your GMC registration in progress (you do NOT need to be on the Specialist Register).
• Have relevant experience at Consultant level, or references to support your transition up to Consultant level.
• You will need to pass an enhanced background check (DBS).
• Access to the NHS Pension scheme
• Employee benefits such as sick pay and holiday pay
• Paid SPA sessions to facilitate your ongoing CPD
• Working in a beautiful city near the seaside

As a Consultant in Gastroenterology, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the provision of Endoscopy services throughout the hospital, particularly diagnostic, therapeutic, and screening endoscopy.

Working flexibly at this health board, you will enjoy close working relationships with your fellow healthcare professionals as you work to ensure the highest standards of care are provided to patients of all ages while being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior Gastroenterologists.

The health board takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical equipment in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism, research and academia throughout your consultancy.

In your role as a Consultant, great reliance is placed upon your ability to demonstrate how critical specialist skills and communication combine to ensure a patient’s care experience is the best it can be. Your calm, reassuring nature combined with your wealth of knowledge and expertise will help ensure patients feel safe in your hands.

Main Duties/Responsibilities

As a Gastroenterology Consultant you will:

• Provide diagnosis, screening, treatment, preoperative, operative, and postoperative management of patient care.
• Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
• Coordinate treatment plans and prescribe various types of treatment.
• Provide constant monitoring and care for patients.
• Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
• Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
• Recognise, review, and report a patient’s condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
• Perform basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
• Conduct research to help develop and test surgical techniques and equipment that can improve operating procedures and outcomes.
• Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

So, if you are dedicated to achieving the very best outcomes for patients by combining skill and expertise with your ability to teach, coach and mentor junior medical staff, we want to hear from you. Apply today.

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