Band 8a Clinical Endoscopist

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) is one of the largest acute trusts in the UK serving a population of 750,000 from a wide range of social and ethnic groups. The trust provides specialist trauma, oncology, neurosciences, hyper acute, stroke and critical care services. The Trust is recognised as a regional London Upper GI Cancer resection Centre by NHS England and has also become a standalone centre for Bowel Cancer screening.

We are supported by excellent specialist nurses in IBD, nutrition, hepatology, capsule endoscopy and upper and lower GI cancer.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, innovative Clinical Endoscopist to join our Endoscopy Team . We are investing to grow our team to increase our ability to meet demand. This is an exciting time to be part of an innovative and forward-thinking service. We are working towards 7 day working and extended opening times to accommodate the demand for the service.

We have a supportive culture for all staff and by joining us now, you can play a role in shaping our organisation that continues to put patient care first. Endoscopy is an ongoing developing specialty and so ongoing training and education is offered to all staff.

The post holder will be expected to deliver an endoscopic service in carrying out OGD’S, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy for the Trust. The post holder must demonstrate specific skills in disorders of gastrointestinal tract, including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques and subsequent management, to undertake assessment, education, and counselling wherever appropriate.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Roberts Job title: Clinical Endoscopist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01708435000

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