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Specialty Doctor in ENT | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £59,175 - £95,400 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 March 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP4 5PD |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7027483/432-MI2609 |
Summary
We inviting applicants to apply for the Specialty Doctor post in ENT at Ipswich Hospital. This post is until the 30th of September 2025.
The post-holder will be responsible mainly for running outpatient clinics at Ipswich Hospital. Operating sessions, depending on ability, can be agreed with the Clinical Lead. The post holder is expected to partake in the middle grade on call rota. Day to day running of the otolaryngology beds and providing guidance to the junior doctors in their duties as and when necessary is a requirement.
The ENT Department across both hospital sites are responsible for providing a specialist ENT services for the population of North East Essex and East Suffolk, this equates to approximately 800,000 people. They are also responsible for the training and supervision of junior medical staff. They are expected to participate in management through the Directorate structure.
Increasingly some aspects of service delivery may focus more on one site then the other if clinically appropriate. In the first instance this may effect on-call provision.
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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GENERAL
• The post holder may have to provide 2nd on-call cover as an ENT Speciality Doctor
• To assist the junior doctors in completing electronic discharge summaries and electronic tertiary referrals.
• To be available to offer specialist ENT advice to other medical and surgical teams within the hospital and, occasionally, at one of the other hospitals within the Trust.
• When on duty, to offer specialist general ENT advice to other firms and hospitals as required
• An active part in educational programmes for junior medical staff, including formal teaching sessions and clinical audits relevant to the needs of the Unit
• To teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate
• Issuing of advice to GPs on suitability of patients for admission to hospital
• To undertake outpatient clinics on behalf of the consultants, reviewing routine, urgent and cancer patients
• To support the ENT department in their activities
• Take part in the regular ENT team out of hours (on-call) duties including the Colchester site
• Demonstrate flexibility in working patterns to help the department provide a smooth running service
• Support the consultant in theatre and outpatient, and at times run theatre as first operator when necessary.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025