The appointee will have the responsibility of providing a wide range of core and diagnostic urological services. Candidates with a subspecialty interest in surgical andrology/female and reconstructive urology and experience with HoLEP will fit the need of the department. Every opportunity will be given to develop a subspecialty interest. Necessary support and mentoring will be provided within the unit.
ESNEFT has invested in Robotics and this service is available on both sites. Urological robotic services at present are delivered from Colchester site which, in future may be delivered from Ipswich site as well. The appointee will participate in a 1 in 7 (provisional) prospective on-call rota, supported by a 24/7 mid-grade on-call rota. When on-call, all routine consultant activity is cancelled to allow assessment and treatment of emergency patients. Cover is provided by mutual arrangement with colleagues to allow off-site activity to take place. The department offers cover for acute paediatric urological conditions. Emergency cases are admitted under the care of the on-call consultant for that day, who is responsible for their subsequent care.
The post holder will be expected to do a daily ward round including Saturday and Sunday when on call. This is recognised within the job plan. The successful candidate will provide independent out-patient, diagnostic clinics and in-patient urology care at Ipswich hospital. He will be expected to provide supervision and training to the middle grade doctors and trainees.
The post-holder will share responsibilities for in-patient care with the current consultants. The post holder will also be expected to be a core member of the urological cancer MDT and also support SMDT meetings. Senior clinicians offer excellent mentorship to support.
Please note that where response levels are exceptional we may close the post before the specified date, therefore early application is recommended.
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Working for our organisation, 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 £100 million 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 £7 million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35 million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There's a £5.3 million 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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