Role Summary
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant in Otolaryngology
Closing Date 2nd November 2022
Interview to be held 15th November 2022
About the Role
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
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, 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
The ENT Department at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking to appoint a Consultant in General ENT with a sub specialty interest in otology. This post is arising as a result of the impending retirement of one of our senior consultants.
The Royal Devon provides a full range of ENT services to the population of North and East Devon. The post is primarily intended for candidates with a subspecialty interest in otology although there will be a component of general ENT medicine as well. We are looking for a full time appointment for 10PAs total programmed activity but less than full time working can be accommodated as required.
The Royal Devon has developed a reputation as an innovative, leading acute hospital over 250 years. Further information on the Trust can be obtained at https://royaldevon.nhs.uk/. The Research, Innovation, Learning and Development centre on site is a £27.5m development, which consists of the Welcome Wolfson Centre for Medical Research, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Exeter Clinical Research Facility, and a new Post Graduate Education Centre. The recently established and forward thinking University of Exeter Medical School (UEMS) employs the wealth of resources at the Royal Devon for teaching and training.
The historic cathedral city of Exeter is situated centrally in the South West Region with easy access to the countryside and coast of Devon and Cornwall. It is well served by rail, road and air links.
Applicants must be registered medical practitioners and either be on the GMC Specialist Register, or be within 6 months of completion of specialist training at the date of interview. Evidence of this should be provided with your application. Please include contact details of a minimum of 3 referees from the last 3 years of your employment. If you are a Consultant one referee should be your current or most recent Medical Director. If you are a Locum Consultant one referee should be your Clinical Director or equivalent.
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Dr Rupert Ricks, Clinical Lead for ENT on (01392) 402805. Further information can be obtained by contacting our HR Department on Exeter (01392) 404556. Interviews – 15th November 2022.
The Trust is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and so we welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, marriage/civil partnership or transgender status.
Please note all authority for advertising Royal Devon posts rests solely with HR and any such requests should be made direct to them only.
Please quote the appropriate reference number when applying.
Benefits
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.
