Locum Consultant in ENT with a specialist interest in Rhinology

Job overview

ENT at Guy’s provides tertiary referral head and neck cancer, skull base, rhinology/facial plastics and otology, laryngology / voice and paediatric services. It also provides general secondary level ENT services to Lambeth and Southwark. This post will involve collaborative working with the sleep service, which is the largest sleep medicine service in the country.

A full outpatient and inpatient general ENT service is provided by twenty one consultants to the Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital sites. Cover is also provided to King’s College Hospital.

The service includes emergency and elective work, for both adults and children. The department has many areas of special interest including rhinology, facial plastic surgery, skull base surgery, paediatric airways, otology, cochlear implantation, voice surgery and benign and malignant head and neck surgery.

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This is a full time ENT consultant post with a special interest in Rhinology. The postholder will also be expected to carry out some general ENT surgery.

The post will be based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. Work is also carried out at King’s College Hospital, and it is a requirement of your employment that you be prepared to work at any additional or different location owned or served by the trust, either on an on-going or temporary basis according to the demands of the service.

To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training, and to contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development.

To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.

To contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development.

Please see the attached JDC for a further breakdown.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. 

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.