We wish to appoint a fixed term Consultant Gastroenterologist to join the existing department providing gastroenterology inpatient and outpatient services at St Richard’s Hospital, West Sussex. This post has arisen due to maternity leave for a Consultant Gastroenterologist.
The post will be to take over the clinical practice of a colleague on maternity leave whose scope of practice is in Gastroenterology. The existing consultants also place great emphasis on the ability of an individual to work closely as part of a cohesive team and to share an ambition for ongoing service improvement and development.
The clinical duties of the post include the following:
- Deliver care of patients on acute gastroenterology wards in partnership with consultant colleagues (negotiable for this fixed term post)
- Deliver gastroenterology outpatient clinic service (including IBD caseload)
- Perform diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
- Participate in on call duties as agreed between the appointee and clinical director/medical director for gastroenterology (negotiable for this fixed term post)
- Take a shared role in the development of the gastroenterology service in conjunction with the management team and consultant colleagues in gastroenterology
- Participate in MDT working and clinical governance
- Provide professional supervision, direction and training to the junior medical staff
- Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Attend meetings of the department of gastroenterology and division of medicine
On-call commitment:
- Currently 1:14 Monday-Thursday out of hours GI bleed on call for St Richards and Worthing hospitals
- Currently 1:14 weekend cross site GI bleed on call combined with targeted gastroenterology inpatient ward rounds and emergency floor in-reach
(negotiable for this fixed term position)
Working for our organisation
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Candidate Pack
Please see the job description and person specification attached to the advert for further details of the post.
Interviews potentially July 2026
