Locum Consultant Vascular Surgeon

This is a 10 PA post for a Locum Consultant Vascular Surgeon for the initial term of 6 months with a further potential 6 month extension at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals.

This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the service that we provide to our population. This is an exciting post based at Queens Hospital with cross site working.

The successful applicant will support the current delivery of vascular surgical services. He will join with the existing team to provide specialist care to the growing population of our patients, manage the emergency surgical service and elective service (including CEPOD service) and raise departmental profiles through research, teaching and education.

The General Surgery department is dynamic, enthusiastic and forward looking with a holistic patient centered outlook providing emergency and elective general surgery. The department is formed of upper GI, colorectal, breast (including onco-plastic), urology, vascular and acute emergency surgical services., The successful applicant will support the current delivery of vascular surgical services and have designated interventional radiological sessions at Queen's.

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.