Locum Consultant in General Surgery

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Fixed term contract General Surgeon with daily duties in SAAU and on call commitments to help with on call and waiting list management. General Surgery experience in required and specific training in any of the specialties of General Surgery as Colorectal Upper GI or Breast would be welcomed. There will be an average of 9 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care, with the remainder being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities. The purpose of the role is replacement in order to maintain clinical activities.

As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following: –

oThe provision of a first-class clinical service

oEffective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

oSustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London

oUndertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

oConducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

oMaintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Division or the Trust

Main duties of the job

The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for surgery patients and to provide and develop services for King’s surgical patients. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the development and delivery of aspects of surgical services depending upon their interests and experience.

General Surgery is part of the Surgery, Theatres, Anaesthetics and Endoscopy Care Group. The Department of General surgery is based at the Princess Royal University Hospital with some clinical activities at Beckenham Beacon and Orpington. The outpatient and administrative functions for the surgical team are based at Princess Royal University Hospital.

The Clinical Director (CD) of Surgery Theatres Anaesthetics & Endoscopy (Dr Swinda Esprit) is responsible for strategic direction and oversight of the care group.

The care group triumvirate consists of General Manager (Fawez Molotoo) Head of Nursing (Anna Ferrer) and the Clinical Director (Dr Swinda Esprit). There are 5 Clinical Leads within the Care Group (General Surgery, Endoscopy, ENT, Pain and Anaesthetics).

Person Specification

Training and Experience

Essential

  • Wide experience in al aspects of General Surgery, culminating in an award of CCST or equivalent
  • Structured training in wide General Surgery experience ATLS – current

Desirable

  • Any of the Specialties of General Surgery as Colorectal, Upper GI or Breast are welcomed

Registration

Essential

  • Registerable medical qualification FRCS or equivalent Full Registration with GMC and Name on Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
  • Full Registration with GMC Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment On the day of interview applicants must be within 6 months of CCT or be in final stages of portfolio pathway application, or be fully registered on the GMC Specialist Register. Any applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered.

Administration

Essential

  • Experience in day-to-day organisation of Surgical services in a busy hospital

Desirable

  • Management course and/or qualification

Management and leadership

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary tams.

Audit and Quality improvement

Essential

  • Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.

Desirable

  • Audit Publications

Research and Publications

Essential

  • Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Orthopaedics

Desirable

  • Publication of relevant review articles

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.

Desirable

  • Teaching skills course/qualification

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: 2 August 2026

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