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From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
Job summary
Job overview
Join our established Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) service at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and become part of a supportive, forward-thinking department. Working alongside five other consultants and a multidisciplinary team of Specialty Doctors, Registrars, Nurse Practitioners and Audiologists, you will bring your expertise to a varied general ENT practice, including paediatric care.
This full-time, 10-programmed activity (PA) consultant role combines outpatient clinics, operating lists and multidisciplinary team (MDT) attendance.
Your clinical work will focus on general ENT clinics and theatre sessions, including paediatric care. You will also contribute to consultant on-call cover, supported by Specialty Doctors and Registrars.
The role offers a breadth of clinical work within an established team, a job plan tailored to balance your individual needs with those of the service, and opportunities for regional collaboration, audit and research.
Applicants must be on the General Medical Council Specialist Register or, for trainees on a UK training programme, within six months of admission to the Register, or be in the process of completing the CESR pathway. You must continue to hold a Licence to Practise.
You will develop and use governance links beyond the Trust, including through the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) Network, to support high-quality patient care and collaboration across organisations.
Main duties of the job
You will work with consultant and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver the diagnosis, care and treatment of ENT conditions, supported by comprehensive facilities at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. Alongside your clinical practice, you will contribute to the ongoing development of the service and improvements in patient care.
A collaborative and flexible approach is central to this role. You will manage patient care in partnership with consultant colleagues and other professional staff, making the best use of departmental resources.
Your initial job plan will include 1.5 PAs for Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs), of which 0.5 PA will be flexible within the job plan.
If you wish to establish or develop an ENT research portfolio, reasonable SPA time to support this development will be negotiated.
Working for your organisation
You will be part of a wider Head and Neck Directorate that brings together complementary specialties, placing your ENT practice within a broad clinical community. The Directorate sits within the Division of Surgery and Anaesthetics, which comprises five directorates and is led by a Divisional Director, supported by a Director of Operations and dedicated finance, personnel and information technology support.
Each directorate is led by a Clinical Director, supported by an operational team and finance, personnel and informatics colleagues.
The five directorates within the Division of Surgery and Anaesthetics are:
Anaesthetics - Critical Care
Anaesthetics - Operating Services
General Surgery & Specialist Surgery
Head and Neck
Trauma and Orthopaedics
The Head and Neck Directorate brings together Ophthalmology, Orthoptics, Optometry, Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Cancer, Oral Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery and Audiology.
CHFT is a digital Trust, and confidence in navigating digital systems is an essential requirement of the role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Your job plan will be tailored to balance your individual needs with those of the service, with a selection or all of the following activities:
- General ENT clinics
- Head and Neck clinics, including fast-track clinics
- Theatre sessions under general anaesthesia
- Clinical triage, advice and guidance
- Patient administration
- Supporting Professional Activities (1.5 PAs, of which 0.5 PA is flexible)
- MDT presentation
- Service development
- Audit and research opportunities
- Monthly clinical governanc
The Trust recognises the importance of dedicated time for Supporting Professional Activities that underpin and maintain high-quality patient care. The Trust Board and Local Negotiating Committee have agreed a core allocation of 1.5 PAs for continuing professional development (CPD), appraisal, clinical supervision, audit, clinical governance, mandatory training and general service management. Objectives for this allocation will be agreed at your job plan review meeting.
You will share emergency duties with consultant colleagues through the prospective on-call rota, which currently operates on a 1-in-6 basis.
To support shortlisting, please include details of the procedures you have undertaken and the number of each in your application.
If you are looking for a consultant role that combines varied ENT practice with a supportive, forward-thinking department, we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
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.
The trust is committed to changes in theatre timetabling to encourage more efficient use of resources, and is actively looking to pursue the provision of evening and weekend sessions as part of routine working.
The post requires a flexible attitude to working practices, managing patients in partnership with other consultant colleagues and professional staff, and making the best possible use of resources put at the disposal of the department. This may require negotiated changes of duties and time-tabled sessions from time to time. All Consultants have a responsibility to liaise with their colleagues in order to co-ordinate their individual activities to ensure the clinical service operates effectively and effectively.
The post holder will have 1.5 SPAs allocated in the first instance; of this 1.5 SPA, 0.5 SPA will be flexible in the job plan.
Post-holders who wish to undertake and develop an ENT research portfolio will negotiate reasonable SPA time to enable research development.
Please note that we would like applicants to specify the procedure and numbers in the application to aid shortlisting.
About us
ENT is part of the Head and Neck Directorate of the Division of Surgery and Anaesthetics. Each Division has a Divisional Director who is supported by a Director of Operations, along with finance, personnel and information technology support. Within the Division there are 5 Directorates.
The Divisional Director is Mr William Ainslie,
Each Directorate has a Clinical Director who is supported by an operational team with finance, personnel and Informatics support.
The Surgery and Anesthetics Directorate includes:
Anesthetics - Critical Care
Anesthetics - Operating Services
General Surgery & Specialist Surgery
Head and Neck
Trauma and Orthopaedics
The Head and Neck Directorate includes; Ophthalmology, Orthoptics, Optometry, Ear Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Cancer, Oral Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery and Audiology.
CHFT is a digital trust and therefore the successful post-holder will need to be comfortable in navigating a computer. This is an essential requirement.
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will have a job plan tailored to meet the collective needs of the individual and services provided, to include a selection or all of the following:
- General ENT clinics
- Head and Neck clinics (inc Fast track)
- General Anaesthetic theatre working
- Clinical triage, advice and guidance
- Patient administration
- SPA (1.5PA, of which 0.5PA flexible)
- MDT presentation
- Service development
- Audit and Research opportunities
- Monthly Clinical Governance
The Trust wishes to ensure that Consultants have time in their job plan to undertake Supporting Professional Activities which underpin and maintain high quality patient care. The Trust Board and Local Negotiating Committee have agreed that a Core allocation of 1.5 SPAs should be allocated to undertake CPD, appraisal, clinical supervision, audit and clinical governance, mandatory training and the general management of the service. Objectives should be agreed at the Job Plan review meeting with regards to this SPA.
The post-holder will share emergency duties with consultant colleagues. This currently equates to a 1 in 6 on call rota. This is a prospective on call rota.
Please note that we would like applicants to specify the procedure and numbers in the application to aid shortlisting.
Job description
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