Locum Consultant in UGI Surgery in Derby inDerby PUBLISHED FRI 6 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a Locum Consultant in UGI Surgery (with special interest in cancer surgery) for 24 months from August 2025.

Based at the Royal Derby Hospital the UGI department provides a full range of out-patient diagnostic services and inpatient elective operating services for benign, bariatric and malignant disease as well as outpatient clinics and day case sessions. The department provides a full service to patients with Upper GI cancers across Derby-Burton and Bariatric services for the East Midlands, serving Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

There are currently 9 UGI consultants within the unit, supported by a team of junior doctors, clinical fellows and clinical nurse specialists.

The department has access to a 9 theatre inpatient suite and a 3 theatre Day Case facility. The inpatient theatre suite boasts two fully integrated laparoscopic theatres, and the Trust offers Da Vinci Robotic cancer surgery in urology, colorectal, head and neck and UGI/HPB, including UGI robotic cancer surgery.

This post will be based across Royal Derby Hospital and with clinical activity also delivered at community sites across Derbyshire. The post holder will have a 10 PA job plan including outpatient clinics, endoscopy, day case and inpatient operating as well as time for patient administration, ward rounds and supporting professional activities.

The post holder will provide emergency cover as part of a 1 in 9 consultant day time rota and 1:18 nights and weekends rota. The post holder will be expected to participate in a 1:8 surgical paediatric on call rota providing 24 hour cover for paediatric emergencies.

About us

• Provision alongside Upper Gastro-Intestinal consultant colleagues of a comprehensive service for Southern Derbyshire and the surrounding areas, with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis & treatment of cancer and benign general and upper GI disease.

• Responsibility for the continuing care and treatment of patients in your charge and personal performance of clinical duties as agreed in your job plan, allowing for proper delegation to and teaching of trainee staff.

• Provision of an out of hours general surgical service with consultant colleague including on-call commitments. Provision of subspecialty cover for Upper GI, cancer, bariatric & paediatric emergencies.

• Cover for consultant colleagues annual leave and other authorised absence, including care of patients and supervision of trainee doctors (a minimum of 6 weeks notice must be given for all leave requests).

• Responsibility for the professional supervision, training and management of trainee medical staff, carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to postgraduate and continuing medical education activity locally and nationally as appropriate.

• Participation in medical audit under local arrangements, the Trusts Clinical Governance processes and in CPD.

• Involvement in research and supervision of trainees in audit / research.
• Managerial, including budgetary, responsibilities where appropriate
• Where it is agreed between the parties, work on behalf of the Trust such as domiciliary consultations, or services provided by the Trust for other agencies, e.g. the prison service. (This excludes work done under direct arrangements between an individual Consultant & a third party, e.g. Category 2
• Participation in Medical Student Teaching Programmes and Examinations.
• Responsibility for implementing Infection Control Policies