Role Summary
The Royal Devon gastroenterology/ hepatology team comprises 19.5 whole time equivalent (WTE) consultants with 14.5 WTE based in Exeter (1 post recruiting now) and 4 based in Barnstaple (3 posts recruiting now, 1 early 2024).
Consultants deliver face to face care predominantly at their base site and all consultants will provide telephone or video consultations for patients across the entire catchment using a single EPR (EPIC).
The department provides a comprehensive gastroenterology and hepatology service for Devon. It serves a primary population of approximately 615,000 and provides specialist gastroenterology and hepatology services, including intestinal failure, specialist endoscopic services (including small intestinal endoscopy, colon capsule, Barrett’s endotherapy, EUS, ERCP and cholangioscopy) to a wider population across the South West Peninsula.
About the Role
We will work with you to help you be the best version of you at work.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we’ll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you’re starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays. Our Medical workforce has separate arrangements.
You’ll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, physiotherapy, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You’ll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint 4 consultants to its department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. These include 3 Consultant Gastroenterologists / Hepatologists to its Northern Services based at the North Devon District Hospital (NDDH) in Barnstaple and 1 Consultant Gastroenterologist to its Eastern services based at the Royal Devon & Exeter (Wonford) Hospital in Exeter. Our combined Gastroenterology department is friendly, successful and ambitious.
The Royal Devon is a Trust which encourages and supports innovation, diversity, digital development and research. These roles provide amazing opportunities to the successful candidates including; funded time to join our award-winning research programme, opportunities to develop innovative new services to better meet the needs of our patients, funded time for teaching and rapid career progression. All of this against the backdrop of a Trust that is really going places with a new electronic patient record, a multi-million pound research facility, a significant development budget and big plans for the future. We are based in Devon in the South West of England, a county renowned for its natural beauty, schools, infrastructure and quality of life. If you are interested in finding out more about the positions available, we’d love to hear from you and can also provide temporary accommodation to support a visit and a relocation package, should you choose to join us. For more information, please contact ndht.medicalstaffingteam@nhs.net (Northern services) or rde-tr.MedicalHR@nhs.net (Eastern services).
Benefits
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
