ENT Surgeon with a Spec Interest in Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base

The Job Role

The successful applicant will

Provide comprehensive consultant-led care in rhinology, anterior skull base surgery and general ENT practice.

Deliver secondary and tertiary rhinology services including management of inflammatory sinonasal disease, revision endoscopic sinus surgery and complex sinonasal pathology.

Participate in the regional anterior skull base multidisciplinary service, working closely with Neurosurgery, Radiology, Pathology, Oncology and specialist nursing colleagues.

Contribute to the assessment and surgical management of patients with sinonasal tumours and other complex rhinological conditions.

Work collaboratively with Ophthalmology colleagues in the delivery of lacrimal services, including endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR).

Support established multidisciplinary pathways with Neurosurgery for endoscopic anterior skull base surgery.

Contribute to emergency ENT services through participation in a 1:8 on-call rota.

Support teaching, training, audit, clinical governance and research activities within the department.

Participate in service development and regional pathway delivery across Devon and Cornwall.

The department operates with a flexible and collegiate consultant structure to ensure sustainable delivery of both secondary and tertiary ENT services. The successful candidate will join an experienced and supportive consultant team with established subspecialty interests across rhinology, skull base surgery, head and neck surgery, otology and laryngology. The post offers opportunities to further develop multidisciplinary rhinology and anterior skull base services in collaboration with colleagues across the Trust and wider Peninsula network.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ATTRIBUTES

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

• Education, qualifications & special training
• Full GMC registration
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via CCT or CSER(CP) proposed CCT/CESR(CP) date must be within 6 months of interview, CESR or European Community Rights.
• Fellowship in advanced rhinology and anterior skull base surgery
• Higher degrees
• Postgraduate awards and prizes
• Other medical qualifications
• Experience outside specialty

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Demonstrate evidence of good clinical training

Attend appropriate basic training courses

Ability to manage basic surgical conditions in children.

Demonstrate evidence of wide based knowledge

Attend appropriate courses/meetings in the last 6 years covering the spectrum of the entire speciality

Specialist skills

• Demonstrate evidence of having had a broad subspeciality training
• Evidence of ability to perform advanced subspecialty procedures
• Comprehensive knowledge of subspeciality subject
• Attended subspeciality-specific meetings in the last 3 years
• Attended advanced subspecialty specific courses
• Comprehensive knowledge of subspeciality subject
• Research
• Evidence of a research interest
• Published (or accepted for publication) as principal author in peer reviewed journal

Extensively published

• Presentations at local/reginal/national and international meetings
• Publications and presentations in subspeciality subject
• Demonstrate an enthusiasm to continue with research
• Teaching
• Demonstrate experience in having taught other junior doctors and undergraduates
• Formal medical education qualification
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Well-presented CV
• Information technology skills
• Good presentation skills
• Demonstrate evidence of ability to communicate and co-operate well with both patients and other health care professionals as judged by the general contest of the CV

Management

Evidence of interest and ability in management

Management qualification

Undergraduate Teaching

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is one of the NHS partners of the University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School. The Directorate has a commitment to a significant part of the clinical undergraduate teaching programme. The post holder will be expected to participate in undergraduate teaching activities. Additional job planned sessions for protected teaching time would be agreed by mutual agreement with the Service Line Director. Such arrangements will be agreed within the Trusts' annual job planning and medical staff appraisal process.

Proposed Job Plan

Details of the proposed job plan should be set out below.

Whilst a standard job plan would consist of 10 PAs, we would be able to consider whether the post could be undertaken on a flexible or less than full-time basis. On the appointment 1.5 SPA standard (1 SPA timetabled and 0.5 SPAs flexible). This may increase as the appointee becomes more involved in undergraduate or post graduate teaching or other department activities.

Type (DCC/SPA)

• PA
• Monday
• AM
• Admin
• DCC
• 1
• PM
• Clinic / LA rhinology list
• DCC
• 1
• Tuesday
• AM
• Clinic
• DCC
• 1
• PM
• Clinic
• DCC
• 1
• Wednesday
• AM
• OFF
• PM
• Fortnightly paeds theare
• DCC
• 0.625
• Thursday
• AM
• Head and Neck & Skull Base MDT
• DCC
• 0.125
• PM
• SPA
• DCC
• 1.0
• Friday
• AM
• Theatre
• DCC
• 1.25
• PM
• Theatre
• DCC
• 1.25
• Additional
• On call 1 in 8 weekdays, 1 in 8 weekends
• (0.75PA unpredictable and 0.5 predictable to include post operative ward round)

SPA (Flexible)

• DCC
• SPA
• 1.25
• 0.5
• Total DCC
• 8.5
• Total SPA
• 1.5
• Total PAs
• 10
• Proposed Timetable
• The job plan will be agreed on appointment the published Job plan is indicative
• ON CALL Frequency of rota commitment
• Category A (tick as appropriate)
• Category B (tick as appropriate)
• 1 in 1 - 1 in 4 rota
• 8%
• 3%
• 1 in 5 1 in 8 rota
• 5%
• 2%
• 1 in 9 or less
• 3%
• 1%
• Agreed PA value of on call
• 1.25
• Agreed on call rota frequency
• 1 in 8 weekdays and weekends