Locum Consultant Hepatologist

This locum consultant post has been established to provide dedicated clinical leadership and capacity within the Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) service, supporting the increasing demand associated with the diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of patients with primary liver cancer.

The postholder will work as part of the multidisciplinary hepatology, HPB surgery, oncology, radiology, and transplant teams to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across the HCC pathway. They will contribute to specialist outpatient clinics, multidisciplinary team meetings, inpatient care, treatment planning, and surveillance programmes, ensuring timely access to investigation, diagnosis, and treatment in line with national standards and best practice.

The role will support service sustainability by improving outpatient capacity, reducing waiting times, enhancing continuity of care, and facilitating the delivery of specialist regional and tertiary HCC services. The postholder will also contribute to service development, quality improvement, clinical governance, teaching, and research activities, helping to strengthen the Trust's position as a leading centre for the management of liver disease and liver cancer.

This appointment will provide additional consultant workforce resilience while supporting the continued growth and complexity of the HCC service, ensuring patients receive safe, effective, and timely specialist care.

Main duties of the job

The post holders will provide a service to Liver Unit inpatients and outpatients and will support the Transplant Hepatology program as required. The HCC job post holder will be expected to perform weeks of on-call for transplantation (1 in 9) and contribute to regular ward cover as part of the ward team (1 of 5 member Consultant team).

1.Participate in Liver Unit outpatient activity with 3 clinics per week including the HCC clinic and post-liver transplant immunosuppression clinic. The other clinic will be a general Hepatology clinic or post LT HCC clinic.

2.Participate in the management of inpatients with acute and chronic liver diseases. This will include in-patient and out-patient assessment of patients with chronic liver disease undergoing evaluation for liver transplantation.

3.Provide specialist management and input to the HCC service and development of service of the transplant Oncology programme.

4.Participate in MDT meeting in Liver Transplantation, Cancer and Histology. Candidate will provide support specifically for the HCC MDT.

5.Be expected to participate in Liver Unit audit and postgraduate teaching programme.

6.Be expected to participate in clinical research as opportunities arise in sub-specialties such as liver transplantation, viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases, portal hypertension, fatty liver disease, sarcopenia, cancer and portal hypertension.

7.Support the administrative activity of the Transplant Unit.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.