LED Foundation Year 2 - Medicine | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,439 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 November 2025 |
| Location: | Burton Upon Trent, DE13 0RB |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7474773/320-MDQ-7474773-SB |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an enthusiastic doctor to join our trust.
We are looking for a fixed term full time doctor to work within our Medicine Department mainly inGastro/Diabetes/DME.
This is offered on a rotational 4 month post working normal working days.
This post will optimise your clinical experience and enable you to gain relevant clinical competencies.
The post is based at Queens Hospital, Burton.
Please note this is not a training post.
You will be supervised by senior colleagues, and you will have the opportunity to attend teaching sessions to enhance your knowledge and skills, access to an electronic portfolio and the opportunity to participate in Quality Improvement Projects.
University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust provides health care services to the residents of Burton upon Trent and surrounding areas including South Staffordshire, South Derbyshire and North West Leicestershire.
The Trust serves a population of approximately 360,000 people and is committed to delivering high quality patient care. The Trust also runs two Community Hospitals, Samuel Johnson at Lichfield and Sir Robert Peel at Tamworth and the Treatment Centre, based on the Queen’s Hospital's Burton site, providing day case and ophthalmology services.
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
The Trust is strongly placed to provide outreach and community-based clinics, all of which are supported by a dedicated team of clinical staff and senior managers. The Trust recognises the importance of working in the community, providing patients with the choice to access services in a setting that may be more amenable or comfortable for them.
The Trust has a keen interest and extensive involvement in Medical Education at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. We work in partnership with Leicester Medical School, Health Education England in East Midlands and Health Education England to provide quality education and training which meets the requirements of these regulatory bodies as well as the Trust’s high standards of patient care.
All applicants must hold Full GMC with a licence to practice, satisfactory completion of foundation year one (or equivalent), minimum 2 weeks clinical experience in a UK Healthcare setting andbe able to commence in post asap.
This advert closes on Thursday 23 Oct 2025