Specialty Registrar: Gastroenterology - Carlisle, United Kingdom - North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Carlisle, United Kingdom

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This is a post for a Specialty Registrar in the Gastroenterology Department within the Surgical Care Collaborative in North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The post-holder will undertake specific duties as part of the development of a multi-disciplinary team approach to care within the speciality and have access to endoscopy upper and lower GI training.


The appointee will work across the two main NCIC hospital sites, Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle and West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven supporting inpatient and outpatient care, including the delivery of Endoscopy services for the local population.


We have access to a medical day procedures unit that undertakes, for example, biologic treatments, ascitic drainage, liver biopsy and transfusions.


The North Cumbria GI Service is a cohesive and integrated department, combining the services gastroenterology and endoscopy, upper gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, colorectal, emergency GI surgery.

The service provides complete care for patients with disorders relating to the gastrointestinal tract.

Surgeons, physicians, specialist nurses and allied health professions work closely together to provide in house multidisciplinary care for all patients with gastrointestinal problems in the emergency, elective, inpatient and outpatient setting.


The specialties/core ward areas within GI Services are:

  • Endoscopy
  • GI physiology lab
  • General Gastroenterology
  • Hepatology
  • Oesophagogastric surgery
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery
  • Pelvic floor disorders
  • Bowel cancer screening
  • Nutrition
  • Emergency GI Surgery
  • Inpatient ward areas


The Trust provides access to radiology services, CT scanning (including CT colonography), MRI (including MR Enteroclysis) and medical physics imaging on two sites.

We have radiotherapy and oncology on site at Carlisle with outreach services to west Cumbria. There is a Palliative care consultant based on each site with links to hospice and community services.


The post holder will support both general Gastroenterology Clinics and also sub-specialty clinics, including IBD and Hepatology, and will have the opportunity to manage their own clinics alongside a consultant clinic to gain independent experience.


The post holder will also have the opportunity to undertake endoscopy lists, with training in both Gastroscopies, Colonoscopies and Flexible Sigmoidoscopies being provided in house by our training endoscopy leads.


It would also be expected that the post holder undertake audit and governance work to develop their own practice as well as driving forward service improvements within the department.

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