Locum Consultant in ENT

Job summary

Our complete commitment to developing careers means we're looking for proactive, motivated,forward thinking, and dynamic individuals to join our clinical team. This post is an important part ofour ongoing development of medical services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, offeringthe successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing ENT Consultants toprovide a high standard of care across the Trust. We are seeking a consultant with enthusiasm,commitment, and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within thecommunity to help lead the organisation.

We are looking to appoint a new Locum Consultant in ENT (Otology) that will enhance the serviceof our ENT department that covers a population of approximately 560,000 patients with on-callcover population of around 1 million (shared with West Herts NHS Trust). The Trust is the largestin Hertfordshire and in the Integrated care services network.The Trust has a comprehensive programme of leadership mentoring available for newly qualifiedConsultants. Opportunities are also available to other Consultant appointees to play an active partin the programme.

Main duties of the job

• To provide general ENT service with oncall cover for East and North Herts and West Herts (all of Hertfordshire)
• To work alongside existing consultants to provide cover for the trust and region
• To develop new services
• To participate in the department's teaching, audit, research and educational activities

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person specification

Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
• Higher surgical training in ENT within a recognised programme

Desirable

• Postgraduate degree (or equivalen)

Previous Experience

Essential

• Broad range of experience in ENT
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues?
• Ability to offer and be accountable for, full and independent expert diagnostic opinion?
• Evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice

Skills

Essential

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and he learning from errors
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation