Description
This is a replacement Consultant post in Trauma / Upper GI Surgery at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The postholder will work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for major trauma and acute surgical emergency services. The role involves a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
The post will be based at Denmark Hill, with a proposed Job Plan of up to 10 PAs, subject to review within 3 months of commencement. The On-Call commitment is for a 1:8 rota, classified as Category A, with a commitment to undertake routine job-planned work on Saturdays or Sundays.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing high-quality care to patients
- Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
- Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King's College London / KHP
- Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies
- Shared responsibility for providing 24/7 cover for the Unit on a rota basis
- Covering colleagues' periods of annual leave and short-term sickness
- Carrying out teaching, examination, and accreditation duties as required
- Contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives
- Participating in outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals
- Contributing to the Care Groups research interests and audit programmes
- Taking an active role in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of the Care Groups Business Plan
- Exercising professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty
- Working in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to maintain staff productivity and job satisfaction
The Trust offers services across five hospitals in Southeast London and Kent, and is nationally and internationally recognised for work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A registerable medical qualification
- Full FRCS
- Full Registration with GMC
- Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
- Wide experience in all aspects of major trauma
- Career interest in major trauma care with broad subspecialty experience and resuscitative as well as definitive surgical skills
- Damage control training DSTS or equivalent