Consultant ENT


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Liverpool, L7 7HG
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	1 Oct 2026
Closing date:	31 Oct 2026

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Summary

The service will provide consultant ENT-led assessment, diagnosis and management, supported by advanced outpatient diagnostics and selected definitive procedures. The role may include: Nasendoscopy Otomicroscopy Formal audiovestibular testing Review and interpretation of relevant imaging Selected low-risk day-case procedures, where specifically commissioned and supported by appropriate facilities, equipment, workforce and anaesthetic governance. Conditions and Patients Within the Service The Consultant ENT will assess and manage patients within the following agreed service criteria: Tier 2 escalations where diagnostic uncertainty remains, symptoms persist despite adequate treatment, or consultant-level clinical decision-making is required. Moderately complex chronic ear disease, including recurrent otitis, selected dry perforations, hearing loss and tinnitus requiring specialist review but not tertiary otology input. Persistent nasal obstruction, chronic rhinosinusitis, uncomplicated nasal polyps and septal deviation requiring consultant assessment and consideration of definitive treatment. Recurrent epistaxis requiring enhanced specialist assessment and/or an agreed outpatient procedure. Persistent globus, benign tonsillar disease and low-risk dysphonia requiring laryngeal examination and consultant-led management. Known benign lesions requiring biopsy and/or excision within the commissioned ambulatory procedure scope. Selected low-risk ambulatory/day-case procedures, where explicitly commissioned, including: Septoplasty with or without turbinate reduction Grommet insertion Selected myringoplasty Day-case tonsillectomy Limited polypectomy Benign lesion removal Selected FESS Trust waiting-list patients who have already been assessed as suitable for a self-contained ambulatory/day-case pathway, with the required clinical records and diagnostic investigations available. Exclusions and Onward Referral The Consultant will ensure that patients whose clinical needs fall outside the commissioned service are appropriately referred to the relevant hospital, tertiary or multidisciplinary pathway. The following presentations are outside the scope of the service: Urgent, suspected cancer or red-flag presentations, including patients requiring a head and neck cancer pathway. Complex airway, swallowing or voice disorders, significant aspiration risk, or conditions requiring a hospital-based multidisciplinary service. Complex dizziness or balance disorders, central neurological signs, or conditions requiring specialist neuro-otology beyond the commissioned service. Patients requiring inpatient admission, overnight care, emergency support, complex or multistage surgery, or long-term/lifelong specialist follow-up. Tertiary ENT conditions, including cochlear implantation, skull-base disease, complex otology, major head and neck surgery and reconstructive surgery. Patients with medical, anaesthetic, safeguarding or functional risks that make the proposed ambulatory/day-case setting inappropriate. Procedures falling outside the agreed facility, equipment, workforce or anaesthetic scope, or unresolved diagnostic uncertainty requiring hospital-based MDT review. Patients who do not meet the locally agreed age, BMI, ASA, comorbidity or day-case selection criteria.

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