Clinical Fellow in General Surgery

at  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join our general surgery service at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, based primarily at the Ipswich Hospital. The fellowship will provide training in the assessment and management of Rectal & Colonic Cancer, IBD and Pelvic Floor Pathology along with all other aspects of complex colorectal & Coloproctological surgery.
The appointee will be working within the general surgery team at Ipswich Hospital providing support to the elective and emergency services.
The on-call commitment is currently a 1:10 Full Shift, with prospective cover. Candidates are expected to have significant experience in the assessment of general surgical emergencies and be registered with the GMC and will hold MRCS or equivalent.
The general surgery on-call will allow the candidate to gain additional experience in managing the acutely ill surgical patient and the post holder will be expected to make management decisions and operate on patients under the supervision of the consultant. An ability to participate in the day and night acute on call rota at the Specialist registrar level for General Surgery is an essential part of the role.
The post-holder will be expected provide leadership to the Foundation doctors by carrying out regular ward rounds and support inpatient patient care with the consultant team.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients’ own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites – totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There’s a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children’s Unit.
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There is opportunity for training in upper and lower GI endoscopy and help can be given to obtain JAG accreditation depending on the level of experience and skills of the post holder. The recent increase in endoscopy training capacity has meant the department has a track record of successful JAG accreditation by several individuals including endoscopy nurses and surgical middle grade / registrars based at Ipswich Hospital. If the post-holder is already JAG accredited, independent endoscopy lists can be rostered with mutual agreement.
The post offers excellent opportunities for the successful candidate to further develop laparoscopic and robotic minimally invasive surgical skills in the field of general and colorectal surgery. This is a new post created to support the delivery of general surgery services at Ipswich Hospital

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