Locum Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist

Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Nottingham University Hospitals Town Nottingham Salary £99,532 - £131,964 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 10/07/2024 23:59

Locum Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 1 full time locum consultant to join a growing service for a 12 month Locum post. Nottingham Children’s Hospital is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and is based at the Queen’s Medical Centre. It has the full range of specialist paediatric services including paediatric intensive care, oncology, neurology and neurosurgery, rheumatology, ENT, plastic surgery, cardiology, renal transplant and surgery. The expansion in consultant PAs has been brought about to support a busy nutrition and IBD service. The job will be suitable for candidates who wish to enhance their paediatric gastroenterology experience prior to taking up a substantive role.

The Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (PGHAN) service within The Nottingham Children’s Hospital is a growing service serving a population of a large part of the East Midlands including Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire, and a population base of 2.6 million. The department provides with its network partners in the region, the full specification of a tertiary PGHAN service. Within the children’s hospital, the department provides the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic services, including urgent and emergency endoscopies. It works closely with the neonatal surgical service and runs the nutritional rehabilitation programme including looking after children on home PN.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will be responsible for the following:

• Provision with Consultant colleagues of a comprehensive elective and emergency Paediatric Gastroenterology/Hepatology & Nutrition service during normal working hours. The appointee will be responsible for the management of emergency / elective patients admitted under his / her care.
• Provision of reciprocal cover for periods of leave.
• Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and participation in quality improvement programmes within the department.

There is a collaborative working arrangement with the adult gastroenterology department with who we look after a growing cohort of adolescents with IBD going through transition. The department currently has access to 8 endoscopy lists each month and this will be expanding with the increase demand on the service. In addition to Nutritional consults the specialty provides consultations for a number of co-located services including surgery, renal transplant, paediatric intensive care, spinal surgery, oncology and general paediatrics.

Working for our organisation

Hospital services for children in Nottingham merged onto a single site at Queen’s Medical Centre and Nottingham Children’s Hospital was created within it.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist services for children in Nottingham, together with tertiary paediatric and neonatal services to the adjacent areas of Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire (Trent SHA catchment area), surgical services for Stoke on Trent in the Midlands and neurosurgical services for Leicestershire. We also provide supra-regional services for paediatric spinal surgery, rheumatology, nephro-urology and cystic fibrosis. Paediatric cardiac surgery and hepato-biliary surgery are not resourced locally.

The Childrens Hospital is situated in East Block on D and E floors, with out-patient departments on B floor and comprises:

• Eight wards - 121 Beds, including critical care
• An Oncology Day Case Unit with anaesthetic facilities,
• A Short Stay unit for observation of the acutely ill child
• A large Hospital school.
• The Academic Division of Child Health (University of Nottingham School of Human Development).
• A 22-bedded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (situated on B floor adjacent to the delivery suite)
• A separate children’s Emergency Department sees in excess of 40,000 children per year and a new purpose built facility has been built as part of the Accident and Emergency extension plans (situated on A floor).
• 2 outpatient areas on B Floor, South and East

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The service benefits from its links with the Adult GI department and runs 14 adolescent/transition clinics per year. This is set to expand with the growing cohort of IBD cases. The links with the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and the NIHR funded Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) creates opportunities for collaborative research, and the department participates in research studies, and commercial pharmaceutical trials.

Person specification

Professional Registration

• Full registration with the GMC. Eligible to be included on the specialist register
• MB BS or equivalent
• CCT in PGHAN (or equivalent training) or within 6 months of achieving CCT in PGHAN at the time of interview

Professional Qualification/Development

• MRCPCH or equivalent

Clinical Skills/Experience

• Training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Gastroenterology.
• Safeguarding level 3 training
• Training in Hepatology and Nutrition including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
• Up to date advanced life support training

Teaching Audit and Research

• Understanding of research principles and ability to appraise research critically.
• Evidence of participation in clinical audit.
• Enthusiastic about undergraduate teaching
• Able to teach junior staff effectively and supervise juniors undertaking research projects.
• Original research publications.
• Teaching qualification

Management Skills

• Able to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients their families and other health professionals.
• Able to work within a team.
• Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
• Able to develop present and action coherent ideas for service development/delivery

Please note that this post does not attract relocation expenses.

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At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
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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 David Devadason Job title Consultant Gastroenterologist/Head Of Service Email address [email protected] Telephone number 07812276071 Additional information

01159 249924 ext 82439