Consultant Emergency General Surgeon: Sponsorship Available

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Consultant General Surgeon with a special interest in Emergency General Surgery to join our expanding surgical team at Lincoln County Hospital and Grantham Hospital.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of Consultant General Surgeons delivering high-quality elective and emergency surgical care across Lincolnshire. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting and further developing our Emergency General Surgery service, including the Lincoln Emergency and Ambulatory General Surgery (LEAGS) service, whilst also maintaining an elective general surgery practice. The post includes outpatient, theatre, emergency surgical assessment and inpatient responsibilities, alongside opportunities for teaching, training, service development and research.

Main duties of the job

  • Deliver high-quality emergency and elective general surgical care.
  • Contribute to the Surgical Emergency Admission Unit (SEAU) and emergency general surgery pathways.
  • Undertake elective theatre sessions and outpatient clinics.
  • Participate in the Consultant on-call rota for Emergency General Surgery.
  • Provide senior clinical decision-making and leadership within the multidisciplinary team.
  • Support the ongoing development of ambulatory emergency surgery services.
  • Supervise and train undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors in training.
  • Contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and service development initiatives.
  • Participate in departmental teaching programmes, mortality and morbidity meetings and multidisciplinary working

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GMC registration.
  • FRCS (General Surgery) or equivalent.
  • On the GMC Specialist Register for General Surgery, within six months of CCT, or at the point of submission of a Portfolio Pathway application.

Desirable

  • Postgraduate higher degree (MD, MSc, PhD or equivalent).

Experience and Clinical Skills

Essential

  • High standard of clinical skill and expertise in Emergency and Elective General Surgery.
  • Broad operative experience demonstrated through an extensive logbook.
  • Ability to work independently at Consultant level.

Desirable

  • Previous Consultant-level experience.
  • Accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor and/or Educational Supervisor.
  • Experience of service development and redesign.
  • Understanding of healthcare management and service organisation.

Additional Skills and attributes

Essential

  • Flexible, resilient and able to work under pressure.
  • Ability to implement and support change.
  • IT literate.
  • Ability to build effective professional relationships.

Desirable

  • Evidence of developing innovative service improvements.
  • Ability to introduce new technologies and ways of working.
  • Willingness to lead audit activities.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 21 October 2026

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