Job Description

The post-holder will join a team of nine consultants: Drs Blaker, Bell, Barnardo, Baburajan, Bird Fegredo, Mahumud, Maiden, Sharma, and Hanumantharaya. Clinical duties will include inpatient care at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, with endoscopy and outpatient clinics held at either Tunbridge Wells or Maidstone Hospital.
The successful candidate will participate in the Gastroenterologist of the Week model and will have no General Internal Medicine (GIM) on-call commitments. The Trust runs a 24/7 GI bleed rota, and supports care with a comprehensive suite of multidisciplinary meetings (MDMs), including dedicated upper and lower GI cancer MDMs, a benign liver MDM, and an IBD MDM. A sub-specialist interest in IBD and research is desirable.
The department is well supported by:
4 IBD Clinical Nurse Specialists
1 Liver Nurse Specialist
9 Clinical Endoscopists
4 Digestive Disease Unit Research Nurses
In addition, the team includes 5 registrars, 1 IMT3, and 6 IMT/Foundation-level trainees.
The department is active in clinical research and innovation. The successful applicant will be encouraged to contribute to and lead new research initiatives, service development, and quality improvement projects.
JD PENDING COLLEGE APPROVAL
Main duties of the job
This is a consultant appointment within the Gastroenterology Department of the Specialist Medicine Directorate, which delivers clinical services across both Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital sites. The successful candidate will join a team of nine other gastroenterologists within the Trust. The role includes contributing to the delivery of a high-quality gastroenterology service, as well as supporting general medicine services at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital
JD PENDING COLLEGE APPROVAL
About us
The Trust was established in April 2000 through the merger of Mid Kent Healthcare Trust and Kent & Sussex Weald NHS Trust. It provides general hospital care to ~590,000 people in West Kent and North East Sussex, and specialist cancer services to ~1.8 million. Its main hospitals are Tunbridge Wells Hospital (TWH) in Pembury and Maidstone Hospital (MGH), where the Trust HQ is also based. Key personnel include: Chair: Dr Annette Doherty, Chief Executive: Mr Miles Scott, Chief Medical Officer: Dr Sara Mumford
Clinical services are delivered via nine Directorates. Within the Medicine Directorate (which includes gastroenterology): Lead for Gastroenterology: Dr Paul Blaker, Clinical Director: Dr Matt Szeto, Chief of Service (Medicine & Emergency Care): Dr Simon Webster
Details
Date posted
21 July 2025
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
105,504 to 139,882 a year per annum/pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
359-MSD7341619
Job locations
Maidstone
Maidstone
ME16 9QQ
Job description
Job 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 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 Trusts patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trusts strategic direction.
• To participate fully in the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts 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.
• To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
• To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
• To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
• To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor.
• To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
• To provide prospective cover, for advice and to deal with clinical emergencies, during colleagues annual/study leave and for other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
• To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trusts corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
• To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
• To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy. You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation. The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.
• To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
• You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.
• Specialty out-patient clinics as appropriate for the post-holders special interests
• Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
• Participation on the management and future development of the gastroenterology service.

Job description
Job 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 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 Trusts patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trusts strategic direction.
• To participate fully in the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts 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.
• To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
• To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
• To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
• To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor.
• To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
• To provide prospective cover, for advice and to deal with clinical emergencies, during colleagues annual/study leave and for other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
• To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trusts corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
• To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
• To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy. You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation. The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.
• To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
• You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.
• Specialty out-patient clinics as appropriate for the post-holders special interests
• Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
• Participation on the management and future development of the gastroenterology service.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• MB BS (or equivalent)
• Registered with GMC
• MRCP or equivalent
• On GMC Specialist Register for G(I)M and gastroenterology (or within 6 months of CCT date)
• Broad experience of gastroenterological medicine

Desirable

• A higher degree such as an MD/ PHD

Further training
Desirable

• Bowel Cancer Screening Colonoscopy skills would be an advantage
• Advanced IBD experience or interventional endoscopy, ie, ERCP

Research
Essential

• An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature

Desirable

• Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• GCP training
• Experience of recruitment to portfolio and commercial clinical trials

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• MB BS (or equivalent)
• Registered with GMC
• MRCP or equivalent
• On GMC Specialist Register for G(I)M and gastroenterology (or within 6 months of CCT date)
• Broad experience of gastroenterological medicine

Desirable

• A higher degree such as an MD/ PHD

Further training
Desirable

• Bowel Cancer Screening Colonoscopy skills would be an advantage
• Advanced IBD experience or interventional endoscopy, ie, ERCP

Research
Essential

• An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature

Desirable

• Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• GCP training
• Experience of recruitment to portfolio and commercial clinical trials