An opportunity has arisen to join our team at Ipswich Hospital and East Suffolk Community Hospitals. We are inviting applications for a Locally Employed Doctor (LED) at a level of FY2 or above in Geriatric and General Medicine.
This is a fixed term post until the 31st of August 2025 in the first instance.
The successful candidate will join the resident doctors team based at Ipswich Hospital and be a part of the wider older people’s medicine LED workforce. They will work with an older people services Consultant, and resident doctor ward team managing 28 patients on one of the Older Peoples Wards. The post is rotational with opportunities to rotate to a different older people’s ward every 4 months across both the acute and community (dependent on duration of the post).
The role is ward based, there is no on-call or expectation of weekend working. Hours of operation are agreed with the ward consultant, ensuring that 40 hours of clinical activity are delivered across the working week.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where 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.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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The successful candidate will support active management of patients on the ward, using your clinical judgment and experience to escalate more complex patients for management under more direct guidance and instruction of the Registrar initially, with overall clinical planning and accountability under the direction of the Ward Consultant.
The role involve a daily consultant led board round, weekly MDT meeting and monthly clinical governance meeting. The post holder will be expected to provide appropriate clinical management of patient as part the progressive, innovative multidisciplinary ward team, effectively managing their own time in supporting the registrar and ward consultant and working closely with the ward sister, nursing team and therapy teams to deliver excellent clinical care.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Mar 2025