Applications are invited for a fixed term Consultant ENT Surgeon to join the ENT department at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

We are looking for a full-time Consultant to deliver outstanding patient care at our forward-thinking organisation, and to provide and develop the ENT service alongside consultant colleagues. Although this is advertised as a full-time post, applicants wishing to work part time or flexibly will be considered.

About the Role

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative team comprising eight consultants, specialty and trust-grade doctors, fellows, specialty trainees, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Audiologists, and a substantial team of ENT nurses, technicians, and healthcare assistants. The department also benefits from an ENT fail safe coordinator and a supportive senior management team.

The post provides a clinical service principally at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospitals, with additional clinics at Crowborough to ensure our patients can access our services where and when they need them.

Responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering for annual leave.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
• To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional, and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust's patients, and to contribute to future thinking about the Trust's strategic direction.
• To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust's Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
• To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.