Consultant Gastroenterologist and Clinical Transformation Lead
Consultant
Main area Gastroenterology Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (10 sessions per week) Job ref 213-MED-DH-*******
Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Denmark Hill Town London Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum excl.
London Zone Allowance.
Salary period Yearly Closing 17/12/2025 23:59
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.
The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance.
In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment.
We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.
This is a replacement Consultant post.
This post is split between designing and leading the implementation of transformation programmes as the Clinical Transformation Lead and providing clinical care within the Gastroenterology department.
The clinical remit of the post-holder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for Gastroenterology with a focus on general gastroenterology, including IBD and nutrition.
It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the existing strengths as well as developing his/her own specific complementary areas of expertise depending upon their interests, ability and experience.
In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
For the Transformation role they will work in partnership with Chiefs of Division, Clinical Directors, Transformation leads, General Manager and to develop the KCHs Transformation strategy, underpinning programmes of work and implementation credibility across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust's sites as required by the service.
As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients.
Integral to these responsibilities are the following:
The provision of a first-class clinical service
Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King's College London / KHP
Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies
Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust's service plans
Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust
Working for our organisation
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.
We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.
Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
At King's, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The appointed practitioner will normally participate in teaching medical students, post-graduate doctors/dentists and other groups at King's College Hospital NHSFT and King's College London (KCL) School of Medicine.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as a major teaching Trust, works in partnership with King's College London to provide the highest possible quality of medical education.
All consultants are expected to be committed to teaching and to play their part in the delivery of the undergraduate curriculum.
These activities would include the planning and review of teaching, and the assessment of students, which could, where properly structured, be undertaken simultaneously with service delivery commitments, including ward rounds and outpatient clinics.
Of necessity, the requirements of the undergraduate medical curriculum changeover time and it is not always possible to identify specific teaching commitments in job plans.
Some specific roles will be job planned.
The need for flexibility is acknowledged by the Trust and within a Care Group.
It is possible that the overall teaching commitment can be unevenly allocated amongst staff to achieve optimal teaching and service quality.
The Trust has over 700 training posts and over 400 Trust doctors/dentists across all specialties.
The postholder will be expected to participate in teaching and training postgraduate doctors/dentists, which in addition to direct clinical supervision is likely to include acting as an 'educational supervisor' to one or more individuals, providing them with regular appraisal and support.
Consultants that undertake educational supervision will be provided with appropriate training in accordance with national requirements and accredited by the Director of Medical Education.
Allocation of time for post-graduate education is normally job planned as a team.
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Involvement in high quality research is strongly encouraged at King's NHSFT, as this supports both the delivery of high quality clinical care, and our role as a partner in a major Academic Health Science Centres.
Support for Research
An important component of the Trust's Research and Development (R&D) strategy is to strengthen the support available to researchers, to make it as easy as possible to participate in, and to lead in clinical research – both commercial and academic.
Each Care Group is aligned with a Research Delivery Unit (RDU) that has a designated R&D Lead, Matron or Manager and a team of R&D research delivery staff.
The R&D Office provides support for governance, contracts, costings and research Quality Assurance.
The Care Groups and RDUs are encouraged to maintain a mixed model balanced portfolio of research activity, including Clinical Research Network (CRN) studies, research grants, commercial studies, charity funded studies and health services research.
Commercial trials are costed and set up supported by the KHP Clinical Trials Office (KHP CTO) and this office also provides support for applications to the regulatory bodies for all non-commercial CTiMP studies, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.
Multi-disciplinary involvement in the research process is strongly encouraged.
Research and Job Planning
The undertaking of research within a job plan should be discussed as part of job planning activities.
All staff should be aware of the research being undertaken within their Care Group and in the Trust, and actively support recruitment into all studies, whether or not they have a primary research component to their job plan.
All individuals undertaking research are expected to have a good working knowledge of research governance standards, and are required to undertake GCP training as appropriate for the research they are involved in.
Governance of Research
All R&D projects are required to go through the Trust's R&D office, which manages and co-ordinates the National R&D and ethics approvals process.
This ensures that all projects meet the required national standards of research governance and quality, and are in receipt of appropriate ethical approval and both national and local agreements prior to R&D governance approval being issued.
Each RDU is required to convene a local research governance meeting chaired by the RDU research lead, where feasibility of new studies is discussed and agreed.
The postholder will be expected to contribute to and participate in the Care Group's ongoing clinical audit programme and quality improvement programmes, and will carry out all necessary administrative duties associated with the care of their patients.
The postholder also has a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.
STUDY AND ANNUAL LEAVE
The postholder will be expected to comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of the relevant Royal College or Faculty and provide appropriate documentation and reflection in their appraisal.
Study leave may be requested in accordance with the Trust's Policy for CPD.
Annual leave may be taken in accordance with the Trust's Guidelines on Leave Arrangements for Medical and Dental Staff.
Consultants are entitled to 32 days of annual leave (34 days after 7 years of service), plus bank holidays.
Consultants who work less than full time or compressed hours, should ensure their holiday allowance is adjusted in line with their working patterns.
To ensure the smooth running of the service the postholder will ensure that, in conjunction with colleagues, adequate arrangements are made to cover planned absences and the expected approvals would go through e-leave planning on the Trust's approved system.
Leave must be booked with appropriate time lines to allow effective service continuity and should not solely be taken during consultant's clinical time, but also during SPA and APA activity.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The post is covered by the current Terms and Conditions - Consultants (England) ****, the Terms and Conditions of Service of NHS Medical and Dental Staff (England) and Trust Policies and Procedures where relevant.
There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays with appropriate job planning and commensurate time without commitment to the Trust.
Appointment is conditional upon a satisfactory medical assessment, which may include an examination.
The Trust takes the issues of safeguarding children, adults and addressing domestic abuse very seriously.
All employees have a responsibility to support the organisation in our duties by:
Attending mandatory training on safeguarding children and adults
Familiarising themselves with the Trust's processes for reporting concerns
Reporting any safeguarding child or adult concerns appropriately
The postholder has an important responsibility for, and contribution to, infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene procedures and requirements when in clinical areas.
These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training.
These standards must be strictly complied with at all times.
Annual appraisal is a contractual requirement in the NHS and is part of GMC revalidation.
You have the responsibility to have an appraisal within twelve months of your last appraisal or within six months of starting at King's if you have not had an appraisal previously in the UK.
ARCPs count as previous appraisals for former HEE trainees.
To support appraisal and revalidation, the Trust ensures that every full-time consultant has one SPA in their job plan dedicated to undertaking activities to support this.
Less than full time consultants receive a pro-rata amount of funded time for revalidation activity in their job plan.
Job planning review is conducted annually in line with the Care Group's operational plan.
The above represents an outline of the duties of the post and will, together with the job plan, be reviewed on an annual basis in accordance with the Trust's performance review scheme for consultants.
Consultants will be expected to be compliant with statutory and mandatory training.
Coaching and mentoring can be effective approaches to developing employees.
Both have grown in popularity; we want to use them to enhance the skills, knowledge and performance of our people around specific skills and goals.
We want to develop and strengthen our Grass Roots and Brilliant People aspects of our strategic objectives.
Our vision is to create an internal pool of coaches and mentors, from all professions, enabling King's staff to realise their full personal and professional potential.
We have launched an in-house coaching skills development programme to upskill current King's coaches and mentors.
The Trust Mentoring Scheme is an opportunity for a relationship that can provide support and direction for newly qualified consultants.
Person specification
Qualifications
Full MRCP
Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)
Registration
Full Registration with GMC
Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
Training and Experience
Wide experience in all aspects of Gastroenterology, culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or completed portfolio pathway application
Epic clinician builder certification
Demonstrable experience in directing and leading clinical transformation projects within the NHS
Strong understanding of clinical workflows, safety and quality improvement methodologies
Experience of implementing large scale digital clinical transformation and change projects within a large NHS service, which has achieved measurable results in achieving significant targets
Able to help set and sustain pace of complex clinical change
Successful supervisory, coaching and mentoring experience
Formal training in clinical informatics, health IT or improvement science
Experience with Epic optimisation and governance frameworks
Knowledge of population health, data analytics, or AI applications in healthcare
Clear understanding of and ability to deliver both hard edged operational / clinical objectives whilst supporting people through change
Administration
Experience in day-to-day organisation of Gastroenterology services in a busy Teaching Hospital
Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Management and Leadership
Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
Management course and/or qualification
Audit and Quality Improvement
Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit
Must have undertaken and completed audit projects
Audit Publications
Research and Publications
Understanding of clinical research
Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Gastroenterology, ideally with a focus on IBD
Research publications
Teaching
Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
Teaching skills course/qualification
Job specific criteria
Experience of working in partnership with clinical and operational colleagues to deliver measurable improvements
Demonstrates ability to quickly gain confidence of senior executives, clinicians and operational staff
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On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received.
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