# Colorectal Consultant

**Company**: 18 Week Support Limited
**Location**: Dorset
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Colorectal Consultant to support a well-established NHS Trust in the Southwest area within a busy Colorectal service. The successful candidate will provide high-quality, safe and effective assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management of patients with colorectal conditions.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Assess, diagnose and manage patients with colorectal diseases in outpatient clinics, inpatient wards and emergency settings.

- Perform elective and emergency colorectal surgery, including open, laparoscopic and other appropriate minimally invasive procedures within the surgeon's competence.

- Manage colorectal cancer, diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel disease, rectal prolapse, haemorrhoids, anal fistulas, fissures and other benign and malignant conditions.

- Undertake appropriate diagnostic procedures, including colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy, where trained and credentialed.

- Provide perioperative care, including preoperative assessment, consent, postoperative monitoring, complication management and follow-up.

- Participate in emergency general surgery rotas and provide specialist advice for acute surgical admissions.

- Coordinate patient care with oncologists, radiologists, gastroenterologists, pathologists, specialist nurses and other relevant professionals.

- Recognise and manage clinical deterioration, escalating care when required.

**Person Specification:**

- GMC registration with a licence to practise.

- Current experience working within a surgical setting for a minimum of 6 months within the last 12 months.

- Proven NHS experience.

- Knowledge of colorectal cancer, benign colorectal conditions, perioperative care and relevant clinical guidelines.

- Competence in appropriate elective and emergency colorectal procedures.

- Excellent communication and multidisciplinary team-working skills.

- Commitment to patient safety, professional development and high-quality clinical care.

**Benefits:** No benefits mentioned.

**Contract Details:**

- Locum contract

- 3 months duration

- Part-time, flexible working

## Skills

### Required
- GMC registration
- colorectal surgery
- colonoscopy
- flexible sigmoidoscopy
- perioperative care

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