Consultant Gastroenterologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a specialist interest in either Upper GI disease or Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) disease and advanced endoscopy. The successful candidate will join a highly regarded team delivering secondary and tertiary Gastroenterology and Hepatology services across South West London. The department provides comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and endoscopy services, supported by specialist nurses, trainees and research staff. The role offers the opportunity to develop either a specialist Upper GI and GI physiology practice, including transnasal endoscopy and pH monitoring, or a specialist HPB and advanced endoscopy practice, including ERCP and EUS within a tertiary HPB service. The appointee will contribute to diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy within a JAG-accredited unit and national training centre, alongside outpatient clinics, MDT working, inpatient care and participation in the Consultant-led GI bleed rota. The department has a strong reputation for education, innovation and clinical research through close links with St George's, University of London., The successful candidate will provide high-quality inpatient, outpatient and endoscopy care within the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.,

• Delivering specialist Gastroenterology services with a focus on either Upper GI disease and GI physiology or Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) disease and advanced endoscopy.
• Providing inpatient care as part of a shared Consultant rota.
• Running outpatient and specialist clinics, including two-week-wait cancer referrals.
• Performing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy within a JAG-accredited endoscopy unit and national training centre.
• For HPB specialists: undertaking ERCP and EUS and contributing to regional HPB cancer pathways.
• For Upper GI specialists: supporting GI physiology and upper GI diagnostic services, including transnasal endoscopy and prolonged pH monitoring.
• Participating in benign and cancer multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Contributing to the Consultant-led GI bleed rota and weekend inpatient reviews.
• Supporting teaching, supervision, audit, quality improvement and research.
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to support service development and excellent patient care., surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
  
  With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and