Locum Consultant in Otolaryngology​/ENT

Overview

The ENT Clinical Directorate offers a high quality, safe and patient focused service. The Directorate is part of the Division of Planned Care. The ENT Department at the West Middlesex Hospital provides inpatient day surgery and outpatient services for the surrounding area. It serves the patients of Richmond, Twickenham, Brentford, Hounslow, Chiswick and adjacent areas.

The ENT Department is a very busy and rapidly growing department. A large and fully comprehensive range of services are provided by the team attracting increasing referrals annually. The Department has worked to gain strong support from the Community and General Practitioners in the area. There is a very good and friendly working relationship with other specialities in the hospital with many interesting referrals originating from a number of medical and surgical specialities.

Over 90% of the surgery performed in the ENT Department is on a day surgical basis. This involves adult and paediatric care. The Inpatients are nursed on one of two wards and the average length of stay for the inpatients is approximately one night. The Department treats ENT surgical paediatric cases from the age of two and upwards.

• Continuing responsibility for the care of the patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of the ENT Department.
• Cover absence by arrangement with colleagues.
• Take an active role in the teaching programme and research activities of the Unit, and assist in maintaining the ENT Library requirements.
• Participate in clinical audit within the ENT Department and the hospital as a whole; attend the monthly ENT Clinical Management and audit meeting followed by an academic session in which research and audit studies are discussed.
• Provide senior cover during day time on site, cover two tiers of resident’s doctors on call, and be part of a regional overnight on‑call rota joint with the Imperial College ENT department.
• Monthly ENT Audits and Head and Neck MDT/Clinics take place at West Middlesex Hospital and consultants are expected to take an active role in these.
• Work with the MDT, including a Specialist Nurse, Outpatient Team, Audiology and Speech Therapy, together with the management and Administration staff.
• Help set up and run a newly established clinic‑based procedure clinic fully equipped with various ENT facilities to relieve pressure on the main operating list and reduce waiting times.
• Encourage liaison with the latest GIRFT ENT guidelines and apply those guidelines in day‑to‑day clinical practice, including establishing a subspecialty interest and streamlining services by reducing unnecessary appointments and establishing a one‑stop care for patients whenever possible.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South‑East. They have over 6,000 staff members and provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s services, in addition to a range of community‑based services across London such as award‑winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

The Trust has been rated Outstanding in the well‑led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. They invest heavily in their estate, spending £25 million on expanding critical care facilities and redevelopment of the children’s unit in partnership with charity and donors.

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