Job Summary

Here in Jersey, we have our own Health Care system, separate from the NHS. We are looking to develop and improve our healthcare services towards a modern, fully digitised and future-proof system, in advance of our new hospital (planned to open in 2029). To do so we need fresh eyes, new ways of working and the next generation of consultants to make our healthcare the best it can be. We aim to provide high quality, safe and effective care to the 110,000 people living on the Island and those who visit. The hospital benefits from a fantastic educational centre with a full SIM lab and dedicated time for all to learn.

Aligned to the Wessex Deanery, we support and develop Foundation trainees as well as Clinical Fellows and SAS doctors. We encourage all our consultants to fully engage with the education and training of our future generation of consultants.

Health & Care Jersey is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic substantive Gastroenterology Consultant to join our already passionate consultant body.

Jersey is easily accessible from most regional airports in the UK and has good links with NHS tertiary centres especially in Southampton and London, which affords the successful candidates to maintain links within the NHS and the private sector working. To support your transition to Jersey, we can provide a generous relocation and remuneration package, which is benefitted by lower taxation than within the UK.

The Government of Jersey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people (to include children) and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As this position will work with vulnerable people, the selection process will involve safeguarding measures and include an enhanced DBS check.

We will be conducting interviews for this post on Wednesday 23rd July 2025. 

For an informal discussion please contact Matthew Doyle (Interim Chief of Service), by emailing M.Doyle@health.gov.je. For any recruitment related queries, please contact Sol Bradbury (HR Consultant), by emailing S.Bradbury@gov.je

The Post

Health and Care Jersey is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic substantive Consultant in Gastroenterology. The successful application will join a team of two consultant gastroenterologists, two Staff Grades and a team of specialist nurses to provide a comprehensive service in gastroenterology. The successful applicant will Ideally have a specialist Interest.

The successful candidate will have broad experience of inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology and hepatology, fully competent in diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, including management of GI bleeding.

The applicant will undertake Inpatient specialist reviews where requested and take part in GI-Bleed on-call rota.

Medical/Secretaries/Offices

There are dedicated medical secretaries (2 FTW) supporting the consultants and their team based within the Endoscopy Unit. The consultants have a shared office space with IT facilities.

Duties

• Jointly develop a service of excellence for gastroenterology which ensures a seamless integration between Jersey and tertiary centres in England.

• Participate in the development of the gastroenterology strategy for the island of Jersey including endoscopy services.

• To work in close partnership and liaison with Primary Care and other specialist services.

• To undertake inpatient specialist reviews for gastroenterology.

• To undertake outpatient clinics for both gastroenterology.

• Provide diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy.

• To provide clinical advice & support to primary care colleagues and other consultants within Health & Care Jersey medical model.

• To deliver personalised, evidence informed medical care plans to all patients that are appropriately documented and regularly evaluated.

• To provide advice and timely medical reviews and interventions as part of the interdisciplinary model of care.

• To participate and attend relevant services’ MDTs.

• To liaise with tertiary referral centres as appropriate to provide patient centered care & service improvements.

• Maintain good quality up to date medical records including timely discharge letters and summaries.

• To ensure appropriate documentation and coding is used to provide consistent audit and monitoring of the service.

• To adhere to local prescribing guidelines.

• The post holder should be adaptable, flexible and innovative to meet the ongoing challenges within the service. The responsibilities of the role may change from time to time.

• To comply with infection prevention & control requirements including the latest COVID-19 guidance and policies.

Leadership and Management

• Take part in management and audit activities to support the Care Group Leadership team & Public Health in planning for services and ensuring the service meets key performance indications including excellent patient care.

• The post holder will be expected to take part in management and audit activities and represent the service at Hospital meetings, as agreed with colleagues.

• The post holder will be expected to be fully involved in a ‘Risk Management” programe and support the Governance agenda.

• Represent the service at Hospital meetings, as agreed with colleagues.

Teaching and Research

The department is recognised for junior doctors' training from the Wessex deanery and medical students teaching from Southampton. Active training and teaching are encouraged in this role. It is expected that the post holder will participate in the training of medical staff and that the candidate will ensure that the training and learning needs are identified and facilitated. This includes educational support for the clinical fellows recruited directly to Health & Care Jersey.

The post holder should deliver training to a range of professionals across the multi-disciplinary team in medicine to create a service of excellence for Jersey.

Opportunities for participating in research are supported when appropriate. The Health & Care Jersey has a policy for professional leave and is supportive of external duties for the good of the wider profession.

On-Call Rota

The appointee will take part in the GI bleed on-call rota alongside the other two consultant gastroenterologists which will be reflected in the final job plan.

The Specialty

There are currently two Gastroenterology Consultants, Dr Moses Duku and Dr Mina Hanna, with special interests in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, bowel cancer screening, wireless capsule endoscopy and IBD. They are supported by an IBD nurse specialist, Consultant Radiologist with special interest diagnostic gastroscopy and EUS, two middle grade doctors, specialist nurses in alcohol, nutrition nurse, dieticians, a clinical investigations unit which performs 24 hours pH, and a fibro scan service. There is a close working relationship with the GI surgery, radiology (diagnostic and interventional), pathology and oncology departments and we run a weekly GI MDT, IBD and Nutrition MDTs.

Our endoscopy unit has highly motivated staff and performs a wide range of endoscopic procedures. The unit currently comprises of two endoscopy suites, fully equipped with all the latest Olympus equipment including AI. The overall endoscopic workload is around 5,000 cases per annum, including gastroscopy, colonoscopy, EMR, EUS, stenting, treatment of gastro-oesophageal varices, insertion of feeding gastrostomy tubes, balloon dilatation, APC and wireless capsule endoscopy. There are dedicated endoscopy lists for bowel cancer screening and symptomatic FIT services.

The specialty outpatient services see patients with a wide range of gastroenterology and hepatology conditions. The clinics are divided into General Gastroenterology, Liver and IBD clinics. We have strong links with tertiary centres in the UK and jointly manage complex cases.

Management Structure

The Chief Officer directs the department for Health and Care Jersey - Tom Walker. The Director of Clinical Services Is Claire Thompson. The Group Medical Director Is Simon West. Professor John McInerney Is Medical Responsible Officer/Suitable person with the GMC for Appraisal and Revalidation.

Leadership Teams

Surgical - Scheduled Hospital Services

Chief of Service: Dr Simon Chapman

Planned Care Lead: Jemma Hammond

Assistant General Managers: Wayne Quenault and Tracey Wilkinson

Lead Nurses: Claire Ash and Stacey Bell

Medical - Primary and Unscheduled Hospital Services

Chief of Service: (Interim) Dr Matthew Doyle

General Manager: Sarah Evans

Assistant General Managers: Karen Gardner and Washington Gwatidzo

Lead Nurses: Harriet Holden and David McKenna

Social Care

Director: Andy Weir

General Manager: Darren Bowring

Principal Social Worker: Paul Rendell

Head of Learning Disability Services: Robert Gardner

Children's Services

Chief of Service: Caroline Jenkins

Lead Nurse: Alex Watt

General Manager: Tracey Martin

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Chief of Service: Caroline Jenkins

Head of Midwifery: Roslyn Bullen-Bell

Lead Midwife: Jan Auffret

General Manager: Tracey Martin

Medical Services Care Group

The Department sits within the Medical Services Care Group which comprise the following range of services, a full structure chart of the care group can be found in the appendix:

Ambulatory Emergency Care

Cardiology

Dermatology

Diabetes

Emergency Admissions Unit (EAU)

Emergency Department

Haematology

Medical Day Unit

Medical Outpatients

Medical Wards - Plemont, Corbiere and Rozel Wards

Neurology

Oncology

Palliative Medicine

Pathology Rehabilitation Ward – Plemont Ward (Interim Rehabilitation Unit)

Renal Medicine

Respiratory

Rheumatology

Sexual Health

Medical Services Care Group

Medicine in Jersey is fully age and specialty integrated. There are 3 medical wards, Plemont, Rozel and Corbiere. A 5-bedded Enhanced Care Area is sited on AAU and there is a separate intensive care unit led by intensivists. There is also an Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit led by the Acute Medicine Department. There is a 25 bed Acute Assessment Unit.

SAS doctors are responsible for the day-to-day management of their patients on the wards with the help of clinical fellows, FY1 or FY2 doctor whom they closely supervise.

On call, the SAS doctor is responsible for seeing patients referred by the Emergency Department and reviewing patients admitted to the AAU by GPs in conjunction with the Acute Medicine team. A core responsibility of the Medicine Care Group is the provision of a safe acute medical service. The Care Group always provides named Consultant supervision for non-Consultants and ensures that prompt review and treatment is provided for acute medical emergencies referred by General Practitioners or the Emergency Department.

Consultants are responsible for producing and updating guidelines for the management of acute medical emergencies in their specialist area.

Care Group Statistics

There are 63 medical beds. 12-20 acute medical admissions on average during each 24-hour period on call within a range of approximately 6-24. There are approximately 4,500 medical admissions annually.

Specialty Medical Staff

The current Consultants providing acute and specialist medical care to the Island population.

Dr A Mahmoud, Acute Medicine 

Dr I Bodzioch, Acute Medicine

Dr J Vaz, Acute Medicine 

Dr K Dabeedin, Acute Medicine 

VACANCY, Care of the Elderly

Dr A Mitchell, Cardiology

Dr P Le Page, Cardiology

Dr D Hopkins, Diabetes, Clinical Director for General Medicine

Dr E Chacko, Diabetes

Dr A Varma, Emergency Department

Dr J Terris, Emergency Department

Dr J McInerney, Emergency Department

Dr K Anderson, Emergency Department

Dr M Finn, Emergency Department

Dr N Charles, Emergency Department

Dr N Payne, Emergency Department

Dr R Greig, Emergency Department

Dr S Chapman, Emergency Department

Dr V Patel, Emergency Department

Dr M Hanna, Gastroenterology

Dr M Duku Gastroenterology

VACANCY, Gastroenterology

Dr G Ortiz-Prieto, General Medicine

Dr W Nagi, Haematology

VACANCY, Haematology

Dr B Lyons, Histopathology

Dr M Perenyei, Histopathology

Dr N Stefanos, Histopathology

Dr C Langoya, Microbiology

VACANCY, Microbiology

VACANCY, Neurology

Dr E Gomes Dos Santos, Oncology

Dr M Butt, Oncology

Dr R Soomal, Oncology

Dr J Grose, Palliative Care

VACANCY, Renal Medicine

Dr S Alapati, Respiratory - Due to start in September 2025

VACANCY, Respiratory Medicine

Dr S Tosounidou, Rheumatology

Dr R Hembrom, Sexual Health

VACANCY, Stroke Medicine

In addition to outpatient clinics and 3 general medical wards containing 63 beds, the Medical Service Care Group is involved in the management of several specialist facilities. These include:

25 bedded Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)

5 bedded Enhanced Care Area (ECA)

6 chair Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC)

A well-equipped Clinical Investigations Department providing echocardiography, exercise ECG, respiratory assessment and GI physiology.

An endoscopy suite providing a full range of endoscopy and bronchoscopy services.

Diabetes Centre providing outpatient care for the diabetic population of Jersey, including retinal photography and specialist nursing support.

Renal/Dialysis unit, providing emergency, acute and longer-term renal support as well as management of transplanted patients and assessment and treatment of renal conditions.

6 bedded isolation area for infected or neutropenic patients.

Other Hospital Departments

The following departments are located outside of the medical division:

3 Surgical Wards - Surgical Floor, Beauport and Rayner Ward

7 Critical Care beds which includes Medical and Surgical Intensive Unit

Designated Day Surgery Theatre (2)

Main theatre Suite

Outpatient Dental Department

Outpatient ENT Facilities

Outpatient Ophthalmology Department 1

Private Wing Ward (beds with admitting rights)

Private Patient Services

Radiology Department

Physiotherapy Department

Anaesthetic Department

This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.

Proposed Job Plan

All consultants have a 10 PA contract for public work, this is not negotiable. The final job plan will be agreed with the Clinical Director for General & Specialist Medicine, the Chief of Service for Medical Services Care Group, and ratified by the Medical Director. The postholder’s job plan will be reviewed annually and will be appraised according to the current guidance.

Provision will be made for a lunch break between morning and afternoon sessions if both are clinical. Timetable – specific roles and timings to be agreed by the successful candidate and the current substantive colleagues and Clinical lead in Gastroenterology in conjunction with the Clinical Director of General and Specialty Medicine. The final job plan will be agreed with the Consultants in the Department, with the Clinical Director and Hospital Director, and ratified by the Medical Director. The postholder’s job plan will be reviewed annually with the Medical Director and will be appraised according to the current guidance.

Qualifications and Skills

Essential: 

Primary Medical Degree

Higher Specialty qualification: MRCP or equivalent

Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a License to practice (for overseas candidates it is mandatory that a license is obtained prior to appointment)

Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register/Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent in Gastroenterology (or be within 6 months of obtaining this at the date of the interview - documentary evidence of this must be provided to support your application)

Clinical Experience in similar NHS environment or equivalent

BLS

Evidence of adequate training and/or experience as CCDC

Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT

Broad range of IT skills.

Desirable: 

Postgraduate degree

General Experience

Essential: 

Broad experience in General Medicine

Broad experience in Gastroenterology

Enthusiastic Teacher

General medicine on-call consultant experience

Desirable: 

Broad experience in Hepatology

Previous Management Responsibility / Leadership Experience

Specialist Experience

Essential: 

Diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy

JAG accredited Endoscopist

Ability to perform emergency endoscopy for GI bleed

Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of gastroenterology, hepatology and general medical patients

Desirable: 

Recognised period of work in a liver unit

Leadership and Management

Essential: 

Evidence of Clinical Leadership

Ability to Work Flexibly with Colleagues to provide services

Ability to Work Effectively with a Multi-Disciplinary Team, motivating and influencing others through their enthusiasm

Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses, management and other agencies

Highly motivated

Able to work within a team

Experience of Teaching, Training & Supervision of Junior Medical Staff and undergraduate students

An understanding of and ability to demonstrate your ability to:

• Empower others

• Lead through change

• Influence strategically

• Collaborative working

• Drive for Improvement

• Integrity