Consultant Colorectal Surgeon | Isle of Wight NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

Are you looking to develop a unique surgical career or to re-locate to develop a new life style.

We are seeking an imaginative Colorectal & General Surgeon to support the development of our services and to share in the unique life style offered by living and working on the Isle of Wight.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Ourstrategic aims are the key priorities of our strategy, enabling us to deliver out vision. Our vision and values are long term, and out strategic aims are tailored to the next five years. They clearly define our focus and give clarity to our communities, our people, and our partners about what matters most.

Why not come and see for yourself the care we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

As a colorectal cancer surgeon you would support our existing general surgical unit. This is an exciting opportunity either for a newly qualified, forward thinking, enthusiastic colorectal consultant or an experienced consultant who wants a new beginning with a better work life balance.

We provide a robust emergency and planned surgical service for the island population and this posts will be part of this plan with inclusion in the emergency general surgery on-call provision. The post is based at St. Mary’s Hospitals, Newport, Isle of Wight.

Our population is small (145000) and we are one of the smallest district hospitals in England. This provides challenges and opportunities. We are an isolated Island community yet only 2 hours from London!

You will be offering core general surgical skills to ensure our surgical take is offering a truly excellent consultant delivered service.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

We have formed a group model with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. This enables us to be part of their colorectal cancer MDT and currently refer low rectal cancers for Robotic rectal resections, early rectal cancers for Robotic TEMS, young right colon cancers for Robotic CME, selected locally advanced rectal cancers for Robotic exenteration procedures and other procedures like Robotic LPLND and para-aortic lymph node dissection. There may be opportunities in the future for successful candidates to be able to be mentored in such procedures and share joint operation at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.

The provisional timetable represents a job plan consisting of 10 programmed activities (PAs) per week. The job plan is a prospective agreement that sets out the consultant’s duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of the consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external.

In addition it will include personal objectives including details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.

The job plan, for 10 PAs will commence including 1.5 Supporting Professional Activities [SPA]. After six months in post the SPA allocation will be reviewed with the post holder and any necessary adjustments will be made with a maximum of 2.5 SPAs. It is expected that more direct clinical care (DCC) sessions in theatre or clinic would be available if required.

Current on call commitments are based around a 1:7 provision.

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Jun 2026

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