Job overview

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is looking to appoint a Consultant Gastroenterologist to join our existing team. The Department of Gastroenterology provides a service to the county of Shropshire and Mid Wales and currently consists of 13 Consultant Gastroenterologists and 1 Consultant Hepatologist working across both hospital sites.
Contribution to an out of hours on call rota is core to this role.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible and work independently for the continuing care of patients alongside consultant staff.


• To participate in the Gastroenterology on call rota.


• To work independently caring for patients with Gastrointestinal complaints, caring out a mixture of emergency and elective care


• To participate in the audit and governance and support the training of junior medical staff and other staffing groups that care for our patients.