Consultant in Hepatology inWakefield inWakefield PUBLISHED WED 23 OCT 2024

Our team provides specialist Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy services across our 3 hospital sites (Dewsbury District Hospital, Pinderfields General Hospital and Pontefract General Infirmary).

Our acute inpatient work is provided on the Pinderfields site with outpatient services and endoscopy provided across all 3 sites.

Our consultants rotate to provide inpatient care on the specialist inpatient gastroenterology ward. We have a Gastroenterologist of the Week model providing expert advice to the rest of the hospital and helping to deliver urgent endoscopy services. Our gastroenterology team provide a 24/7 GI Bleed on call service.

We provide specialist clinics for several conditions including Hepatology, IBD, Cancer and Specialist Nutrition.

We currently provide a range of endoscopy services including ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatography).

Our consultants are a varied group with a wide range of specialist interests. We would be delighted to work with you, developing your specialist interest for the benefit of our patients, our team and for your professional development.

We are a very friendly and dynamic team; we would love you to consider us as your place to work. We will do everything we can to match our job with your needs, and if you should join us, then I am sure you will not be disappointed.

The main duties of the post include the following.

Endoscopy lists including variceal screening and primary treatment.

Key member of the Hepatology MDT (multidisciplinary team) team

Outpatient clinics including Cirrhosis/ Immune liver disease/ Hepatitis B/ Fatty liver disease clinics.

Provision of inpatient care to the dedicated specialty bed base on a 1:8 Rota

Contribution to the GI bleed out of hours on-call Rota on a 1:8 basis

Leadership roles within sub-specialty areas

Supervision of junior doctors and nursing staff

Urgent and Emergency Care duties including out-of-hours on-call; schedules will take due account of the provisions of working time regulations and safe working

Support from the professional and experienced secretarial team

Supporting Professional Activities in accordance with the Trust Framework, with at least a minimum of 1.5 SPAs included in the core 10 PA timetable

Additional SPA or DCC time may be commissioned in line with the skills of the successful candidate and changing requirements of the service

Examples may include formal teaching responsibilities or departmental leadership roles

About us

This post is offered on a full-time (10 PA) basis, although less than full-time applications will be considered.

Duties will be based across the trust and all our medical staff can be involved in delivering care to patients on all our sites.

The main duties of the post include the following.

Endoscopy lists including variceal screening and primary treatment.

Key member of the Hepatology MDT (multidisciplinary team) team

Outpatient clinics including Cirrhosis/ Immune liver disease/ Hepatitis B/ Fatty liver disease clinics.

Provision of inpatient care to the dedicated specialty bed base on a 1:8 Rota

Contribution to the GI bleed out of hours on-call Rota on a 1:8 basis

Leadership roles within sub-specialty areas

Supervision of junior doctors and nursing staff

Urgent and Emergency Care duties including out-of-hours on-call; schedules will take due account of the provisions of working time regulations and safe working

Support from the professional and experienced secretarial team

Supporting Professional Activities in accordance with the Trust Framework, with at least a minimum of 1.5 SPAs included in the core 10 PA timetable

Additional SPA or DCC time may be commissioned in line with the skills of the successful candidate and changing requirements of the service

Examples may include formal teaching responsibilities or departmental leadership roles

We are excited to include in this post some GIM (General Internal Medicine) training time for those clinicians who are dual accredited in Hepatology and GIM.

Within the job plan for this position are up to 1.5 PA of DCC to General Internal Medicine (GIM), which is to enable the successful applicant to be part of the team delivering inpatient care to general medical inpatients.

The new department of GIM, within the Specialty and Integrated Medicine Clinical Service Unit, will be staffed by 15 dual-accredited physicians from Group 1 specialties. These consultants will work a consultant of the week model of care on a one-in-eight Rota, providing a daily consultant ward round (4-hour duration). This is a brand-new service and will provide exciting opportunities for successful candidates to meet and work with colleagues from allied specialties, be involved in service development and quality improvement, as well as gain useful leadership and management experience.

The GIM PAs in colleagues job plans will be reviewed after two years in post, with the likelihood (subject to individual wishes and confirmation with your line manager) of this activity being passed on as new Group 1 specialty consultants are appointed to the organisation, allowing incumbents to return that time to their department and allow them to further develop their parent specialty interests. We make a commitment that no longer than 3 years will be needed to be provided in GIM, but we are hopeful that some colleagues will continue to partake in this Rota in the in the long term.