Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

General Practitioner with Special Interest in ENT (Specialty Doctor)

The closing date is 29 June 2025

Job summary

Are you a GP with some ENT experience and a desire to take your skills further in a flexible, multi-disciplinary team? We're looking for motivated GPs to join our ENT colleagues at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) as General Practitioners with a Special Interest (GPwSI) in ENT.

This opportunity allows you to continue working in primary care whilst helping shape a more integrated approach to ENT care across our region.

Main duties of the job

About the role

  • Up to 2.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week (1 PA = 4 hours)
  • Outpatient clinics (typically two per week)
  • Referral triage and Advice & Guidance
  • Primary care education, clinical supervision and liaison with LMCs
  • Participation in ENT clinical governance and up to 0.5 SPA for development

Whether you're looking to broaden your clinical experience, develop a special interest alongside your GP work, or play a role in improving how ENT care is delivered for your patients -- we'd love to hear from you. CHFT is nationally recognised for innovation in elective care delivery and offers a supportive, digitally advanced environment to grow your career.

About us

What We Offer

  • Part-time salaried role on the Specialty Doctor scale (from £5,917 to £23,850, depending on experience and time commitment)
  • No on-call or emergency duties
  • Supportive team and structured mentoring
  • Flexible working alongside your existing primary care role

Details

Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Specialty Doctor

Salary

Depending on experience £59,175 - £95,400 per annum pro rata (dependent on experience)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

372-SURG-MD168-A

Job locations

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Acre Street

Lindley, Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has comprehensive facilities for the diagnosis, care and treatment of ENT disease. The successful candidate will be expected to provide ENT services in conjunction with colleagues and will contribute to the development of ENT services as follows:

Clinical

  • Assessment and treat patients referred with ENT conditions
  • Triaging of referrals received by CHFT as well as providing Advice & Guidance
  • Provision of a range of clinical interventions (e.g. micro-suction, flexible nasal endoscopy, audiology, etc.);
  • The knowledge to signpost patients to other support services, including local and national patient support groups.

Education and Collaborative Responsibilities

  • Support and train primary care colleagues in ENT management
  • Provide remote support (e.g. telephone/email advice)
  • Collaborate with other GPwSIs and local ENT teams

Service development

  • Help shape integrated ENT pathways across primary and secondary care
  • Develop management guidance for common ENT conditions
  • Contribute to joint training sessions for GPs, nurses and wider MDT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has comprehensive facilities for the diagnosis, care and treatment of ENT disease. The successful candidate will be expected to provide ENT services in conjunction with colleagues and will contribute to the development of ENT services as follows:

Clinical

  • Assessment and treat patients referred with ENT conditions
  • Triaging of referrals received by CHFT as well as providing Advice & Guidance
  • Provision of a range of clinical interventions (e.g. micro-suction, flexible nasal endoscopy, audiology, etc.);
  • The knowledge to signpost patients to other support services, including local and national patient support groups.

Education and Collaborative Responsibilities

  • Support and train primary care colleagues in ENT management
  • Provide remote support (e.g. telephone/email advice)
  • Collaborate with other GPwSIs and local ENT teams

Service development

  • Help shape integrated ENT pathways across primary and secondary care
  • Develop management guidance for common ENT conditions
  • Contribute to joint training sessions for GPs, nurses and wider MDT

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Applicants must be Registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practice
  • MRCGP or equivalent

Desirable

  • MRCS ENT or equivalent
  • Other higher degree (PhD, Masters)

Experience and Achievements

Essential

  • Demonstrate clinical experience and competence in ENT specialty - minimum 6 months ENT experience in a rotational post or equivalent (although please note CHFT offers the opportunity to train successful candidates)

Desirable

  • Understanding current issues within ENT and the future direction of the specialty
  • Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
  • Attendance at a recognised management course
  • Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions

Teaching and Training

Desirable

  • Training in clinical and educational supervision
  • Attendance at a teaching course
  • Formal qualification in teaching/education
  • Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of postgraduate doctors and non-medical staff.

Audit and Research

Essential

  • Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects

Disposition-Adjustment/Attitude/Commitment

Essential

  • Good communication and empathy skills with patients
  • Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
  • Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
  • Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis
  • Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff
  • Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff
  • Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare

Practical/Intellectual Skills/Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Evidence of continual learning and development
  • Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
  • Digital Competence

Desirable

  • Evidence of innovation

General

Essential

  • Eligibility to work in the UK
  • Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
  • For areas requiring EPP Clearance (Exposure Prone Procedures), this will also be a requirement of the health screening
  • An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required with the Disclosure and Barring Service
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Applicants must be Registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practice
  • MRCGP or equivalent

Desirable

  • MRCS ENT or equivalent
  • Other higher degree (PhD, Masters)

Experience and Achievements

Essential

  • Demonstrate clinical experience and competence in ENT specialty - minimum 6 months ENT experience in a rotational post or equivalent (although please note CHFT offers the opportunity to train successful candidates)

Desirable

  • Understanding current issues within ENT and the future direction of the specialty
  • Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
  • Attendance at a recognised management course
  • Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions

Teaching and Training

Desirable

  • Training in clinical and educational supervision
  • Attendance at a teaching course
  • Formal qualification in teaching/education
  • Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of postgraduate doctors and non-medical staff.

Audit and Research

Essential

  • Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects

Disposition-Adjustment/Attitude/Commitment

Essential

  • Good communication and empathy skills with patients
  • Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
  • Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
  • Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis
  • Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff
  • Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff
  • Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare

Practical/Intellectual Skills/Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Evidence of continual learning and development
  • Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
  • Digital Competence

Desirable

  • Evidence of innovation

General

Essential

  • Eligibility to work in the UK
  • Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
  • For areas requiring EPP Clearance (Exposure Prone Procedures), this will also be a requirement of the health screening
  • An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required with the Disclosure and Barring Service

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Acre Street

Lindley, Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Acre Street

Lindley, Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

ENT Clinical Lead

Mr Dipan Mistry

dipan.mistry@cht.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Specialty Doctor

Salary

Depending on experience £59,175 - £95,400 per annum pro rata (dependent on experience)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

372-SURG-MD168-A

Job locations

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Acre Street

Lindley, Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


Supporting documents

Privacy notice

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)