Specialty Doctor - Ear, Nose and Throat

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Specialty Doctor - Ear, Nose and Throat

The closing date is 07 October 2025

We are looking to recruit 2 Specialty Doctors within ENT to support our ENT workload. There is an opportunity for the successful candidate to enhance and develop their ENT skills that fit with the needs of the department. The Specialty Registrar will be responsible to the Lead Consultant for the service in which they are working at any given time. The on call commitment is 1:8, due to the integration of Essex wide ENT network service (since August 2008).

The post holder will be based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, but will undertake outpatient sessions at St Margaret's Hospital in Epping and Herts & Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford. It is likely that the venue of the outpatient clinics could change as required by the services of the specialty and Trust.

The job plan will include 9 Programmed Activities and 1 SPA (for supporting professional activities). This will be subject to the job planning process taking into account the special interest of the successful candidate. Please refer to the attached Job Description for an overview of the average week within the department.

Main duties of the job

• Care of patients pre and post op for ENT procedures
• Dealing with emergency ENT attendances
• Preparation of patients for theatre and liaising with anaesthetics
• Opportunities to attend theatre (to facilitate learning)
• Participation in duty rota and hand over
• Teaching and training of junior doctors
• Planning and providing junior doctors' induction training
• Producing procedure protocols

About us

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.

Person Specification

• Able to run outpatient clinics with limited supervision
• Able to manage everyday ENT emergencies
• Clinical skills for ENT at ST4/5 level
• Able to drive/hold a drivers licence
• Able to perform basic ENT surgery under supervision
• Able to supervise and teach junior doctors and nurses
• Understanding of research and audit principles

Employer Requirements

• Team player
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to adapt and work innovatively
• MRCS
• DO-HNS
• EBORL

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

£61,542 to £99,216 a year per annum plus £149 London Fringe