Clinical Fellow in General Surgery

3 weeks ago


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

12 months fixed term contract from April 2024 to April 2025.

The post-holder’s duties will be based primarily at Colchester Hospital, but their presence may from time to time be required in other parts of the Trust.

This post has been created to provide training in open general and laparoscopic general surgery. A full range of general laparoscopic procedures including laparoscopic hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and laparoscopic common bile duct exploration will be on offer. The post holder will also be exposed to basics of robotic surgery as mentioned above. However, the focus will be on the generality of surgery and will be supervised by a General Surgery/Emergency Surgical Consultant

The Clinical Fellow will be expected to attend theatre sessions, outpatient clinics and endoscopy sessions with consultant surgeons and perform twice daily ward rounds on a rotating basis. There is a regular weekly surgical teaching meeting with teaching presentations by the registrars and a monthly audit and morbidity and mortality meeting.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

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**The post-holder will**:
Work with colleagues to provide a service with the highest standard of care

Work with the multi-professional team following care pathways and clinical guidelines

Follow and maintain good working practice

The post will be working for and be supervised by the general surgery consultants with a special interest in emergency surgery. The post-holder will be expected to carry out ward rounds and are responsible for inpatient patient care with the consultant team. The post-holder will take part in the acute surgical on-call rota at Specialist registrar level for General Surgery.



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