Locum Consultant in Emergency and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

This is for a 10 PA (potentially 12 PA) post for a General and Upper GI Surgeon to work at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospital (BHRUT). This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the service that we provide to our population and is an exciting post based at Queens Hospital with cross site working, starting as soon as possible, on a Fixed Term Contract for 1 year (with possible extension thereafter).

The successful applicant will support the current delivery of General and Upper GI surgical elective and emergency services, including contribution to the delivery of UGI Faster Diagnosis Standards (FDS) and cancer services. She/he will join with the existing team to provide specialist care to the growing population of our patients, manage the emergency and elective Upper GI service (including a 'hot' cholecystectomy service) as well as taking part in the diagnosis and management of oesophago-gastric cancers. The applicant would be required to raise departmental profiles through research, teaching and education.

The duties of the post include:

• Provision of high quality Surgical/Oncological Management to patients with Oesophago-gastric cancer and benign Upper Gastrointestinal disease.
• Provide General Surgery acute on-call service, with the ratio of 1 in 3 weeks weekday on-call and 1 in 12 weeks weekend on-call rota and be responsible for the ward patients.
• Support specialist emergency upper GI services in the Trust.
• Attendance at weekly multidisciplinary meetings.
• Supervision and management of junior medical staff.
• Involvement in research and audit activity.
• Contribution to weekly teaching at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level
• Cover for authorised absence of colleagues.
• Regular participation in the Departmental Quality & Safety meetings

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

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