Locum Consultant in Trauma / Upper GI Surgery

This is a replacement Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi disciplinary team providing and further developing care for major trauma and to provide and develop acute surgical emergency services to the Trust's patients. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff., The post will be based at Denmark Hill, and the proposed Job Plan (up to 10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

The On-Call commitment is for a 1:8 rota, which is classed as Category A. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust's sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:

o The provision of a first-class clinical serviceo Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialtyo Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King's College London / KHPo Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across Southeast London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:- Brilliant People- Outstanding care- Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education- Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.