HGH LED in Acute General Medicine / Gastroenterology

The Horton is a District General Hospital in Banbury with an Emergency Dept, admitting a largely unselected medical take. It has a 16-bedded CCU that provides level 2 care for up to 4x patients. This includes non-invasive ventilation, inotropic support and close nursing monitoring. The medical structure for the CCU is a designated ward team looking after these patients under the supervision of rotating respiratory and acute medicine consultants. Gastroenterology at the Horton provide both outpatient and inpatient services. There is no dedicated gastroenterology ward, but we provide a daily consult service. We have a state-of-the-art endoscopy suite with two rooms, which was reaccredited by the Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal endoscopy (JAG), the gold standard for endoscopy services I the UK, in 2025. The unit offers outpatient and inpatient upper and lower GI diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, and has received outstanding feedback for the quality of training provided. Outpatient clinics include general gastroenterology, as well as hepatology, family cancer, upper GI, and other subspecialist clinics. Services are provided by both Horton resident consultants, and visiting consultants from Oxford. Both patients and trainees have full access to gastroenterology services in Oxford, including tertiary and quaternary level MDTs, specialist services in nutrition, hepatology, IBD, and Upper GI. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to inpatient gastroenterology consults at the Horton under close consultant support. They will also be offered the opportunity to gain experience in upper and lower GI diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. The successful candidate will also be invited to participate and contribute to the regional gastroenterology registrar teaching programme and the regional medical registrar teaching programme. Job description Job responsibilities The Horton is a District General Hospital in Banbury with an Emergency Dept, admitting a largely unselected medical take. It has a 16-bedded CCU that provides level 2 care for up to 4x patients. This includes non-invasive ventilation, inotropic support and close nursing monitoring. The medical structure for the CCU is a designated ward team looking after these patients under the supervision of rotating respiratory and acute medicine consultants. Gastroenterology at the Horton provide both outpatient and inpatient services. There is no dedicated gastroenterology ward, but we provide a daily consult service. We have a state-of-the-art endoscopy suite with two rooms, which was reaccredited by the Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal endoscopy (JAG), the gold standard for endoscopy services I the UK, in 2025. The unit offers outpatient and inpatient upper and lower GI diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, and has received outstanding feedback for the quality of training provided. Outpatient clinics include general gastroenterology, as well as hepatology, family cancer, upper GI, and other subspecialist clinics. Services are provided by both Horton resident consultants, and visiting consultants from Oxford. Both patients and trainees have full access to gastroenterology services in Oxford, including tertiary and quaternary level MDTs, specialist services in nutrition, hepatology, IBD, and Upper GI. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to inpatient gastroenterology consults at the Horton under close consultant support. They will also be offered the opportunity to gain experience in upper and lower GI diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. The successful candidate will also be invited to participate and contribute to the regional gastroenterology registrar teaching programme and the regional medical registrar teaching programme.