North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust (NTHFT) is an ambitious organisation with a focus on excellent patient care. Our teams operate across two acute hospital sites, a community hospital in Peterlee and a number of other community-based hubs employing 5,500 staff who provide integrated hospital and community services.

There will be a commitment to provide 5 clinical sessions per week, which will be a mix of endoscopy and gastroenterology clinics. These sessions will be flexible to aid cover for the endoscopy and gastroenterology service.

The successful applicant will be able to negotiate the remaining 5 sessions, with the options of:

• Endoscopy-related research, often undertaken in conjunction with Newcastle University and the Northern Region Endoscopy Group. There will be an opportunity (optional) to undertake a higher medical degree (e.g. MD) as part of the post. Previous post-holders have undertaken wide-ranging endoscopy research including endoscopy RCTs, bowel cancer screening, surveillance, complex polyps, endoscopic complications, post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer, National Endoscopy Database and colonoscopy performance
• Endoscopy teaching
• Quality improvement projects within the department
• Additional clinical or SPA activities