Locum Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

Locum Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

Closing date: 04 March 2026

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

An immediate opportunity has arisen for a Colorectal Consultant appointment, with an interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Benign Colorectal Surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. Newcastle Hospitals provides a tertiary regional IBD referral centre, with a number of dedicated IBD surgeons, providing high volume and advanced IBD surgical care. The post provides an opportunity to be part of a large and innovative IBD team, with an international reputation, and establish close collaborations within our research active, multi-disciplinary teams.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

The role will have a major focus in supporting the established Newcastle IBD practice, involving primary and re-do resectional surgery, pouch formation/excision and complex perianal pathology management. However, the team are also keen to assist development in advanced and minimally invasive approaches, and the appointee will be encouraged to develop a practice to support current colorectal, IBD, and advanced hernia surgery provision.

The successful applicant would be expected to support delivery of our broader colorectal service. There are potential mentorship and training opportunities for new consultants and considerable flexibility within the department to support the appointment of the very best candidate.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:

Prof Richard Brady (IBD Surgery) on  or via email at or Mr Jason Ramsingh (Clinical Director) on  or via email at

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients’ contacts each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under‑represented groups.

Clinical:

• Provide high quality elective and emergency surgical care to Newcastle and regional population.
• Further develop sub‑speciality services as part of a multidisciplinary team

Administrative:

• Provide timely communication to the wider team in hospital and the community
• Contribute to the efficient running of elective and acute care.
• Engage with national audits (NELA, NBOCAP, IMPACT etc)

Research:

• Engage and collaborate with ongoing local and NIHR Portfolio research activities within the department.
• Provide clinical academic leadership in supporting medical students and doctors in training deliver research projects

Teaching:

• The department leads many educational programs and teaching is an important part of this role.
• Opportunities to lead/further develop courses are numerous via the Newcastle Surgical…