Clinical Fellow - ENT; Ear, Nose, Throat

There is a dedicated ENT Outpatients Department, with each consultation room being equipped with the expected required equipment, microscopes and separate endoscope stacks. Inpatients are admitted to general surgical wards and children are admitted to the dedicated paediatric ward which this on site. Consultants are provided with offices and a shared secretary.

The department shares the Foundation Years doctors with General Surgery. They oversee the day-to-day care of the ward patients

The department has very close links with the audiology department, who are adjacent, and there is a small multidisciplinary team of allied health professionals who maintain a special interest in head & neck pathology, including a speech therapist, a dietician and a parenteral feeding nurse. The hospital has a dedicated upper GI general surgeon and a maxillofacial surgeon who shares some head & neck cancer work.

On Call There is no out-of-hours on-call commitment but successful applicants will be responsible for covering on-call during clinic hours, taking calls from GPs, wards and the Emergency Department. Departmental Statistics There were 7341 outpatient attendances last year of which about 2,517 were new. Approximately 1000 operations are carried out each year. In terms of Head & Neck cancers, 40 new cases came through the department last year, an increase of 60% from the previous year.

Annual Leave Clinical Fellows are entitled to 27 days of annual leave plus 8 bank holidays. Jersey has an additional bank holiday for Liberation Day each year where applicable. Study leave for the purpose of professional development should be applied for through the supervising consultant and is approved by the Clinical Lead. Applications for compassionate leave should be made to the supervising consultant.