Locum Consultant ENT: Sponsorship Available

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are seeking a Locum Consultant Rhinologist to join our dynamic ENT department for a 12-month fixed-term post. This is an exciting opportunity to oversee and develop the Rhinology service while contributing to a broader general ENT workload.

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, supporting elective recovery, and shaping innovative service pathways across North Cumbria.

This role offers the chance to:

  • Oversee a subspecialty service within a collaborative department
  • Influence service transformation and pathway redesign
  • Work across integrated hospital and community settings
  • Contribute to education, training, and clinical leadership

Main duties of the job

  • Deliver a comprehensive ENT service, including Rhinology and general ENT care.
  • Undertake outpatient clinics, elective and emergency surgery, and patient management.
  • Participate in the Consultant on-call rota (1 in 6).
  • Provide clinical advice and support to junior staff, GPs, and multidisciplinary teams.
  • Lead and contribute to clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement.
  • Support teaching, supervision, and training of junior doctors and students.
  • Engage in service development, business planning, and innovation initiatives

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

  • MBBS
  • Full Registration with the General Medical Council.
  • Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons or equivalent
  • Proof of competency in emergency and elective index cases

Desirable

  • Advanced Training in specialist aspects of Otorhinolaryngology
  • Other relevant postgraduate qualification
  • Entry on the GMC specialist register via relevant CCT relevant CESR or European Community Rights

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • High level of clinical experience and competence in Otorhinolaryngology
  • Completed Higher Specialist Training (CCT) in Otorhinolaryngology or evidence of equivalent competency.
  • A special interest to complement that of the existing post holders
  • A commitment to, and experience of teaching
  • Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, managers and other staff
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

  • An interest in developing links with Primary Care
  • Experience of working in a District General hospital
  • Advanced fellowship (or equivalent) in subspeciality

Management & Organisation skills

Essential

  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to advice on efficient and smooth running of their chosen subspecialty service.
  • Ability to work flexible and as part of the team
  • Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload

Desirable

  • Experience of audit management
  • Knowledge of NICE guidelines

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
  • Understanding of training pathway in Otorhinolaryngology including use of ISCP

Desirable

  • Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
  • Teaching of non medical health professionals.
  • Educational Qualification

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

Essential

  • Experience of, and commitment to, medical audit.
  • Previous publication sin clinical research relevant to the post.
  • Governance and audit lead in previous roles and/or able to demonstrate this.

Desirable

  • Ability to supervise postgraduate research
  • Peer reviewed funding, principle investigator role.

Communication skills and abilities

Essential

  • Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
  • Approachable and effective multi disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Good person and interpersonal skills
  • Positive approach to lessons learnt
  • Confident approach without being arrogant

Desirable

  • IT Skills
  • Experience with patient group communication and lectures
  • Experience with advice and guidance to GPs and to community optometrists.

Continued Professional / Personal Development

Essential

  • Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning.
  • Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance.
  • Participation in appropriate peer review processes.

Desirable

  • Presented at conferences representing the organisation

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: 12 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.