Trust Core Surgical Trainee in Vascular Surgery

3 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the vascular surgery team at Colchester Hospital. This post is ideal for those interested in a surgical career

Inhouse training will be offered by keen enthusiastic training surgeons and educational supervision will be provided by a consultant mentor.

Colchester is a hub for vascular surgery and has strong general surgery and urology dept with state-of-the-art laparoscopic training and facilities.

There will be ample opportunity to gain valuable operative and clinical experience and to take part in departmental audit projects and research. There is an excellent dedicated in house teaching programme for core trainees and access to the ICENI centre, a state-of-the-art training facility. This post is ideal for those preparing for professional exams such as MRCS.

**You will gain experience in**:

- Core procedures under supervision of Consultant Surgeons
- Outpatient clinics held on a weekly basis either at Colchester Hospital, additionally at a peripheral site served by the trust (Ipswich and Clacton Hospitals
- Day case surgery with “hands on” training in open and mínimally invasive vascular surger
- Teaching medical students from Barts & London and Anglia Ruskin Universit
- Responsibility for carrying out and contributing to clinical audit activity and local governanc
- Contributing to the writing of basic science and clinical paper
- Contributing to the weekly MDT meeting
- Managerial responsibilities where appropriat
- 1 in 10 on call Rota on full shift system (IST compliant)

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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Colchester is a hub for Vascular Surgery. The senior staff consist of 6 Consultant Vascular Surgeons, 4 Interventional radiologists and 1 Nurse Consultant supported by six middle grade staff, 3 FY1 doctors, 3 CT level trainees and 3 vascular nurse specialists.

There is a dedicated vascular ward and a hybrid theatre allowing a range of complex endovascular cases.

The full range of open and endovascular surgical/radiological procedures is performed. Colchester is an accredited training site for vascular surgery.



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