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An exciting opportunity has arisen for three Locum Consultant General Surgeons to join a large and evolving surgical service in the East of England on a 12-month fixed-term basis. These replacement posts offer the opportunity to work within an integrated surgical network, delivering a broad range of elective, emergency, and gastrointestinal surgical services while contributing to ongoing service transformation and quality improvement initiatives.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The successful candidates will:
• Deliver high-quality elective and emergency General Surgery services across the surgical network
• Participate in a 1 in 9 General Surgery on-call rota providing emergency surgical cover
• Manage patients across inpatient, outpatient, theatre, and emergency care settings
• Undertake a broad range of general and laparoscopic surgical procedures
• Deliver day-case and high-volume low-complexity (HVLC) surgical services
• Participate in ward rounds, outpatient clinics, theatre sessions, endoscopy, multidisciplinary meetings, and administrative duties
• Contribute actively to clinical governance, audit, risk management, quality improvement, appraisal, and service development initiatives
• Support the development and implementation of clinical pathways and best-practice standards
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective, and patient-centred care
• Participate in teaching, training, mentoring, and supervision of junior medical staff
• Serve as a member of the Consultant Staff Committee and contribute to departmental activities.

About the Role

This position is particularly suited to surgeons who are comfortable managing the full breadth of General Surgery while maintaining or developing a subspecialist interest. Successful candidates will have opportunities to tailor elements of their practice and contribute to service redesign projects within an integrated surgical network. Particular interest is welcomed from candidates with experience or ambitions in service improvement, innovation, and pathway development.

Surgical Services

The service delivers a comprehensive range of:
• Emergency General Surgery
• Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Colorectal Surgery
• Benign and Cancer Surgery
• Day-Case Surgery
• Endoscopy Services
• Same-Day Emergency Care (SDEC)
• Trauma-related General Surgical Care
• Paediatric Surgical Emergency Management
• Laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgical procedures.

The wider surgical network also offers access to advanced tertiary gastrointestinal services, complex abdominal surgery, robotic surgery programmes, and specialist emergency surgical services.

Clinical Governance, Audit and Quality Improvement

Consultants are expected to play an active role in:
• Clinical governance activities
• Clinical audit programmes
• Quality improvement projects
• Risk management initiatives
• Professional development and appraisal processes
• Development of evidence-based clinical pathways
• Service redesign and transformation programmes.

Research, Education and Training

The organisation has a strong academic reputation and extensive research infrastructure, including:
• Participation in NIHR-supported research programmes
• Multicentre clinical trials
• Opportunities for principal investigator roles
• Access to collaborative translational research projects
• Strong partnerships with leading universities and research institutes
• Support for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching opportunities
• Participation in departmental and regional educational programmes
• Dedicated support for audit and quality improvement activities.

Person Specification

Requirements

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practise
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at the time of interview
• Appropriate higher surgical qualification
• ATLS Provider certification
• Broad training and experience in General Surgery
• Training and experience in laparoscopic General Surgery
• Experience performing a hot cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis
• Training and expertise in children's safeguarding
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to teaching, training, and service development
• Flexible approach to working practices and hours
• Full driving licence
• Ability to reside within the required on-call travel distance.

 

Desirable

• Higher degree, such as MD, MS, or PhD
• Educational or supervisory training qualification
• Management skills or leadership training
• Post-CCT fellowship experience
• Research experience, including governance and grant applications
• Publications within a specialist area of interest
• Conference presentations and committee membership experience
• Strong presentation and teaching skills.
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