Locum Consultant General, Transplant & Retrieval Surgeon

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. You will provide support to the HPB & Transplantation service (Liver/Kidney/SPK/Islets) in Newcastle.

You will provide an expert opinion on, and investigate and manage, those patients presenting to the Department of Transplantation Surgery in Newcastle. You will be contributing to the management, delivery and development of the abdominal transplantation and retrieval service. You will also be a key member for delivery of Neuroendocrine tumour and benign HPB teams.

You will primarily provide on-call commitment to the retrieval service at NUTH and for Abdominal Transplantation at the Freeman Hospital.

There will be a specific responsibility to the management (including surgical) of patients with Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumours (GEP-NETs).

Management of general surgical and benign HPB problems will involve appropriate modern surgical techniques and close team working, involving radiologists, gastroenterologists, pathologists, endocrinologists to ensure the best outcomes possible for the people of the North East of England., Primarily you will be contributing to the management, delivery and development of the transplantation and retrieval service. You will be responsible for patient care within this department. We would expect the successful appointee to lead and develop subspecialty areas and to continue to enhance the national profile of Newcastle Hospitals. We expect the successful appointee to be an innovator, and clearly demonstrate effective leadership skills, a track record of successful collaboration and team working together with self-development and the proven ability to deliver projects and initiatives.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.