Job summary
The Urology and General Surgery teams are located across two sites, Colchester and Ipswich. The appointee will work across both sites and support work within the ICB to ensure alignment with the trust drive to address child health inequalities by improving access to children's surgical services. In 2020, the trust introduced robotic surgery. This has enabled the conversion of a nationally recognised laparoscopic centre to a leading robotic surgical centre. Innovation is highly valued and supported at ESNEFT.
The appointee will be based within the Urology department and will join 12 substantive and 3 locum consultants in the ESNEFT urology team with clinical commitments at both the Colchester and Ipswich sites. Current paediatric urological and surgical services have been provided by both urologists and general surgeons with an interest in paediatric surgery. Specialist tertiary support is provided by a visiting consultant paediatric surgeon from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Tertiary referrals are made for more complex cases and there are links with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Our Enhanced Welcome package includes an additional £20,000 Welcome Bonus and relocation costs to thank you for choosing to work at our Trust and your new journey with ESNEFT
Interviews will take place on the 26th of July 2024.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
o Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
o Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines by engaging with the cross-site Children's Surgical forum as well as the ODN and GIRFT teams
o Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, out-patients and the ED
o Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care
o Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
o Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility
o Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained
o Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviours are demonstrated
o Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
o Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trust's agree policy
About us
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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Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
The key duties and responsibilities are:
General responsibilities including participation in Consultant on call rota
Specialist Clinics
Outpatient Clinics
Operating: as per specialty
Teaching
Other care of inpatients or outpatients
Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
Participation in Clinical Governance
The job plan is expected to consist of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) and the exact details of job plan will be agreed with the successful candidate after their appointment.
The total number of sessions will be 10 PAs with a proposed breakdown as follows:
DCC 7.5 PAs including cross-site travel time (see below)
1.5 Core SPA for essential revalidation activities
1 PA audit, QIP and teaching
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
The key duties and responsibilities are:
General responsibilities including participation in Consultant on call rota
Specialist Clinics
Outpatient Clinics
Operating: as per specialty
Teaching
Other care of inpatients or outpatients
Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
Participation in Clinical Governance
The job plan is expected to consist of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) and the exact details of job plan will be agreed with the successful candidate after their appointment.
The total number of sessions will be 10 PAs with a proposed breakdown as follows:
DCC 7.5 PAs including cross-site travel time (see below)
1.5 Core SPA for essential revalidation activities
1 PA audit, QIP and teaching
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register in Paediatric Surgery or eligibility for specialist registration in Urology within 6 months from the time of the interview
- FRCS (Paeds) or equivalent
- At least 5 years at SpR level (or equivalent)
- Experience in Clinical Audit
- Good facilitation and teaching skills
- Willing to participate in research as a consultant
- Ability to lead and work as part of multi-disciplinary team
- A confident person who has the ability to manage, motivate and teach the junior medical staff
- Educational/ clinical supervisor (the necessary training will be provided for applicants that have not undertaken these roles previously)
- Full driving licence and regular access to a car
Desirable
- Fellowship of the European Board of Paediatric Surgeons
- Role as consultant and all its implied responsibility for clinical management tasks
- Management training course
- Published research in peer reviewed journal
- Formal training in teaching
- Appropriate IT skills
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register in Paediatric Surgery or eligibility for specialist registration in Urology within 6 months from the time of the interview
- FRCS (Paeds) or equivalent
- At least 5 years at SpR level (or equivalent)
- Experience in Clinical Audit
- Good facilitation and teaching skills
- Willing to participate in research as a consultant
- Ability to lead and work as part of multi-disciplinary team
- A confident person who has the ability to manage, motivate and teach the junior medical staff
- Educational/ clinical supervisor (the necessary training will be provided for applicants that have not undertaken these roles previously)
- Full driving licence and regular access to a car
Desirable
- Fellowship of the European Board of Paediatric Surgeons
- Role as consultant and all its implied responsibility for clinical management tasks
- Management training course
- Published research in peer reviewed journal
- Formal training in teaching
- Appropriate IT skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
