Consultant General Surgeon with sub specialty in Bariatric Surgery

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Applications are invited for a Consultant General Surgeon to join the team in Ayrshire and Arran (NHSAA) with on call commitments at University Hospital Ayr (UHA). Applications are welcomed from candidates with a sub-specialty interest in Bariatric Surgery.

The two main hospital sites within the health board are UHA and University Hospital Crosshouse (UHC), located in the picturesque West Coast of Scotland. Together they serve a population of 366,000.

Clinical sessions may be worked across both sites. The successful applicant will join a team of 20 consultant general surgeons, with subspecialist interests, across both sites and will contribute to the emergency general surgery on call rota.

UHA is a 343-bedded general hospital located to the south east of Ayr town and provides several area-wide services for NHSAA including Urology and elective Orthopaedic surgery.  UHA is a referral center for Bariatric Surgery within NHSAA, has a comprehensive MDT and receives referrals from other parts of Scotland for revision and primary surgery (NHS Highland, NHS Dumfries and Galloway).

UHC has 539 beds, was opened in 1982 and has been expanded and upgraded regularly since then.  Services in the majority of major specialties are provided at the hospital, in addition to Ayrshire-wide services in Intensive Care Medicine, Trauma, Robotic Surgery, ENT, Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Paediatrics, and Gynaecology. The Ayrshire Maternity Unit resides in a state of the art building on the Crosshouse site.

Both Hospitals are easily accessed by road, with the M77 providing rapid access to Glasgow (30 minutes from UHC, 45 minutes from UHA). Rail services also link both Kilmarnock and Ayr to Glasgow and other surrounding towns. Prestwick International Airport lies midway between both hospitals, approximately a 15 minute drive to each. All clinical sites in NHSAA provide free parking. 

Applicants wishing further information about the post, or to arrange a site visit, are invited to contact: 

Interviews are scheduled in the afternoon of 11th October 2024

Potential candidates may also wish to contact Mr Kevin Robertson, CD for General Surgery, Mr Robbie Muir, Site CD for General Surgery UHA or Mr Cameron Sharkey, Divisional General Manager, /  Cameron.Sharkey@aapct.scot.nhs.uk