Foundation Year 1 Doctors - Surgery | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £36,616 + on-call |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7113478/287-ASUR-76-25 |
Summary
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Trust Grade Foundation Year 1 doctor for a 12 month fixed term period commencing August 2025.
This post will be based at the Aintree site, which is located in Fazakerley, Liverpool. The post will give the opportunity for the post holder to gain experience across a range of surgical areas over the 12 month period at Foundation Year 1 level in areas including Emergency General Surgery and Trauma/Orthopaedics. The post holder will be expected to participate in the FY1 1:32 Full Shift Rota.
**Please note this vacancy may close early once sufficient applications have been received**
The post is not recognised for training and the post holder cannot be signed off as achieving Foundation competencies in this post. However, the post holder will be given the opportunity to work together with a Clinical Supervisor and an Educational Supervisor utilising the NHS ePortfolio.
The post holder should have opportunity to attend essential courses like ALERT and ALS. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to attend departmental teaching for their professional development and will be given opportunities to acquire skills that are generic to all doctors.
This post will provide the post holder with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be able to:-
• Take a history and examine a patient.
• Identify and synthesize problems
• Prescribe safely
• Keep an accurate and relevant medical record
• Manage time and clinical priorities effectively
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues
• Use evidence, guidelines and audit to benefit patient care
• Act in a professional manner at all times
• Cope with ethical and legal issues which occur during the management of patients.
• Educate patients effectively.
• Become a life-long learner and researcher.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
The appointee will also take part in the Surgical full shift rota, including night shifts and weekends and experience will be gained in the identification and assessment of common surgical emergencies: -
• Develop confidence in assessing general surgical patients through history taking and clinical examination.
• To learn the management of common surgical emergencies.
• To develop an awareness of those issues which affect a patient’s fitness for an operation and how these might be managed, eg the perioperative management of the diabetic.
• To learn how to recognise the critically ill patient.
• How to resuscitate the critically ill patient.
• To become familiar with the post-operative management of surgical patients.
• To attend operating theatre sessions in order to develop an understanding of the principles, underlying the practice of surgery with an emphasis on wound care and suturing
The post holder will be expected to keep themselves up to date with current knowledge and practice, to attend clinical meetings within the department and to participate in audit and “in-service” training of other healthcare professionals.
The post holder may be required to deputise for absent colleagues from time to time and to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.
The post holder will also be required to be available exceptionally for such irregular commitments outside normal rostered duties as are essential for continuity of patient care
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025