About this role
Medical Gastroenterology Senior House Officer — Job Description
Job Title: Senior House Officer (SHO) – Medical Gastroenterology
Department: Gastroenterology / Medicine
Reports to: Consultant Gastroenterologist / Clinical Lead
Key Responsibilities
- Assess, diagnose, and manage patients presenting with gastrointestinal and liver-related conditions.
- Take detailed medical histories and perform comprehensive clinical examinations.
- Develop and implement appropriate investigation and treatment plans under consultant supervision.
- Manage common gastroenterological emergencies, including:
Upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- Acute pancreatitis
- Acute liver failure and decompensated chronic liver disease
- Cholangitis and obstructive jaundice
- Inflammatory bowel disease flares
- Gastrointestinal infections
- Review and manage gastroenterology inpatients and provide appropriate follow-up.
- Participate in ward rounds, outpatient clinics, multidisciplinary meetings, and departmental teaching.
- Assist consultants with procedures such as upper GI endoscopy, colonoscopy, paracentesis, and other gastroenterological procedures , according to competence and local policy.
- Recognise deteriorating patients and initiate appropriate emergency management.
- Request and interpret relevant laboratory tests, imaging, endoscopy reports, and other investigations.
- Communicate effectively with patients and relatives regarding diagnosis, investigations, treatment, and discharge planning.
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation and discharge summaries.
- Work collaboratively with nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, and other healthcare professionals.
- Participate in the medical on-call and out-of-hours rota.
- Contribute to clinical audit, quality improvement, research, and departmental education.
- Maintain professional standards, patient confidentiality, infection-control practices, and appropriate safeguarding procedures.