An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, close-knit team at ESNEFT. Colchester and Ipswich Hospital, are looking for a specialty doctor dermatologist to be an integral part of the team.
Candidates must be willing to work towards Portfolio Pathway (previously CESR). This will be a 12 month fixed term post with a possibility to offer a 24 month post.
Please state on your application if you have a preference on which site you would like to work at either Colchester or Ipswich Hospital.
All specialty doctors in the department have a continuing and individual responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and a general responsibility to provide, in conjunction with their colleagues, an effective Dermatology Service to meet the needs of the local population, within the resources available.
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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The post-holder will:
• Work with colleagues to provide the highest standard of care
• Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
• Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients and A&E
• Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in community services and primary care
• Offer support to junior medical colleagues, and nursing colleagues
• To be responsible for complying with Trust Infection Control policies and clinical guidelines.
• Ensure training and development needs are followed up and the effectiveness of the acquired training and development evaluated in term of self, patient and service.
• To be responsible for the quality of data recorded. The data should be accurate, legible (if hand written), recorded in a timely manner, kept up to date and appropriately filed.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Mar 2025