Consultant ENT Head and Neck Surgeon - Substantive

Consultant ENT Head and Neck Surgeon - Substantive

Closing date: 29 April 2026

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a full time consultant to join the ENT/Head & Neck Department, based at St George's Hospital (SGH) with regular activity at Kingston Hospital (KH). This newly created role is designed to support service expansion and build upon recent innovations in the diagnostic cancer pathway, with a strong focus on collaboration across a network of clinical colleagues.

As a core member of the St George's & Royal Marsden Combined Head, Neck & Thyroid Oncology MDT, the appointee will oversee the diagnostic pathway for patients referred to SGH and ensure the ongoing delivery of the 28 day faster diagnosis standard. This will include outpatient clinics at both SGH and KH, inpatient complex oncological surgery at SGH, and contributing to the development of the inpatient head and neck surgery service at Kingston Hospital.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the growth and innovation of head, neck, and thyroid services within a collaborative, integrated care environment. The post-holder will be responsible for managing the full spectrum of benign and malignant head and neck conditions, including providing clinical leadership and mentorship to junior medical staff.

Main duties

The main duties of this role include leading the delivery of Head & Neck and Thyroid services across SGH and KH, managing diagnostic pathways to ensure timely delivery of the 28 day faster diagnosis standard, performing complex oncological surgery at SGH, contributing to the development of the head and neck surgery service at Kingston Hospital, actively participating in the St George's & Royal Marsden Combined Head, Neck & Thyroid Oncology MDT, sharing responsibility for the recruitment, supervision, and teaching of junior medical staff, engaging in clinical governance and service improvement initiatives, and maintaining continuous professional development (CPD), along with participation in a 1:14 on call rota to support emergency care and out of hours services.

About us

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest healthcare units in the United Kingdom, accommodating around 1,170 beds and treating around 89,000 inpatient and day cases, and over 448,000 outpatients annually. The Trust employs over 6,000 staff, incorporating 1,100 Medical & Dental staff. It provides general acute services together with specialty services including neurosciences, cardiothoracic, and specialist children's services.

The Trust is on three sites: St George's Hospital, the base for acute general medicine and surgical services; Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton (QMR); and St John's Therapy Centre, Battersea, where services for care of elderly patients previously at Bolingbroke Hospital are now based. The Trust serves a resident population of about 300,000 and serves two local Primary Care Trusts, Wandsworth and Merton, with a total population of approximately 600,000 between them.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist and community hospital based care and a full range of community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, 11 health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries, patients' homes and Wandsworth Prison.

The Trust works closely in association with the Medical School and forms a joint cancer centre with the Royal Marsden.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for an enthusiastic clinician with special interest in ENT Head and Neck to contribute to delivering the highest quality of patient care. The post holder will be expected to work closely with colleagues and management in developing the ability of the department to respond to operational pressures together with clinical governance and longer term service strategies both at St George's and Kingston Hospital. This is a full time post consisting of 10 programmed activities including on call commitments.

Please see attached for further information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Hold a medical qualification or qualification registered with the GMC
• Entry onto the Specialist Register for GMC or be within six months of obtaining CCT/CCST or equivalent
• MD or equivalent higher degree or evidence of relevant research

Experience

• High standard of clinical skill and expertise in the specialty
• Able to contribute to the full range of skills required for the on call rota for the specialty
• Post CCT fellowship training in Head and Neck
• Evidence of subspecialty expertise and skillset within head and neck

Teaching

• Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate trainees
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Formal training, qualification, or evidence of leadership

Management

• Willingness to participate in management activities
• Motivated to ensure achievement of defined targets
• Experience of managing budgets and staff
• Qualification in management
• Experience of change management

Research

• Experience of research, particularly in collaboration with other clinicians
• Willingness to continue participation in research

Other skills

• Potential to cope with stressful situations, undertake responsibility and be a team player
• Enthusiastic and approachable
• Experience in developing effective and collaborative working relationships

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust