Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

Job overview

You will provide general and colorectal surgical services to the community served by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust and to play a key role, with colleagues, in further developing general surgical services. You will provide, alongside consultant colleagues, a service in general surgery involving in-patient and out-patient work and contribute to the on-call rota.

You will support the development of the General Surgery service. All staff support and ancillary facilities are in place. There will be office space for the post-holder with a dedicated computer and IT facilities and medical secretarial support.

Since December 2024, we have been performing Robotic colorectal cancer resectional services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital using a state of the art robot, Versius, made by Cambridge Medical Robotics (CMR).

Currently only colorectal teams are performing surgery using this robot. However, our plan is to Introduce Urology by the end of this year and Gynaecology a few months after that.

colorectal cancer resectional surgeons at QEH.

• To provide a general surgical service including general surgical elective activity and 1 in 9 on call emergency cover for general surgery at QEH.
• To provide elective colorectal surgical service.
• Consultants are required to have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper funding of their departments.
• Undertake administrative duties that arise from clinical responsibilities.
• To provide an outpatients service for new referrals and for ongoing care.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We love working here and think you will too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on this exciting opportunity to join our General Surgery team.

Person specification

Qualifications

• FRCS or equivalent
• MBBS

• Other professional qualification or higher degree e.g., in medical education, clinical research or management.

Entry Criteria

• Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council.

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) at time of interview.

Experience and Skills

• Training and interest in benign elective and emergency general surgery.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the emergency care of patients, both paediatric and adults.
• Training and interest in laparoscopic benign upper gastrointestinal and/or laparoscopic benign biliary surgery.
• A wide range of clinical skills and practice in the specialty.

• Robotic Colorectal Cancer Resection experience and skills.
• GI endoscopy skills.

We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).

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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Free counselling service
• NHS Pension scheme
• Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
• Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
• Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.

We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.

Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.

Certificates of Sponsorship/Visa and Immigration

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