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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon based at University Hospital Wishaw.
The successful applicant will join a busy Surgical Unit consisting of 5 Colorectal Surgeons and 4 Upper GI Consultants, participating in 1:10 on call rota *subject to change.
Wishaw is the regional centre for specialist UGI surgical services including oesophago-gastric cancer resections, bariatric surgery and complex hiatal/biliary surgery. With endoscopy we are able to offer therapeutic endoscopy for early malignant disease, whilst actively managing the endoscopic palliation of advanced Upper GI malignancy through an OP fast track pathway. Minimally invasive resectional surgery has been developed at Wishaw through thoracoscopic and now laparoscopic approaches, whilst offering minimally invasive surgery to all aspects of benign UGI pathology including management of acute UGI presentations. Specialist UGI referrals are received from across the county for subspecialty opinion or intervention. The UGI surgical team at University Hospital Wishaw are involved in all aspects of UGI disease and work closely with our UGI anaesthetists, nurse specialists, nurse endoscopists, dieticians and members of the UGI MDT with the aim of improving patient outcomes and experience, which include recent developments such as the introduction of cytosponge. Applicants with an interest in resectional surgery or benign disease will be welcomed.
This busy District General Hospital also has an active colorectal unit with interests that include the largest Sacral Nerve stimulation practice in Scotland, complex inflammatory Bowel Disease, laparoscopic ventral rectopexy and the endoscopic management of complex polyps.
Recently Wishaw became the designated Trauma Unit for Lanarkshire. Centralisation of Trauma and Orthopaedic Services to Wishaw has already led the way and Services in General Surgery will be subject to reconfiguration over the next few years.
The successful candidates should be on the Specialist Register or be within 6 months of their expected date of receipt of CST/CESR at the time of interview.
NHS Lanarkshire has excellent post-graduate libraries and IT facilities and the unit has a proven track record for research and publications. Active post-graduate educational programmes are in place.
Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Mr Gavin Bryce, Clinical Director on 01698 361100.
For any application queries, please contact Julia Kis – Senior HR Assistant on 01698 754350 or via medical.dentalconsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.
Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.
Interviews are scheduled for: Wednesday 3rd August 2022