Applications are invited for enthusiastic, motivated and committed individuals to join our friendly and dynamic team within the Critical Care department at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a replacement post and the appointed post-holder will join the team to make 10 Consultant Intensivists with dedicated sessions on the Critical Care Unit. The post holder will participate in the 1:10 out of hour’s on-call rota for critical care. Anaesthetic or allied specialty sessions will fall in the weeks outside of Critical Care commitments. Applicants without a CCT in anaesthesia are welcome and efforts will be made to design an appropriate complimentary job plan reflecting their areas of expertise. Flexible/part time applications will be considered.
Our Gold Welcome Package includes a relocation package of £7000, additional £20,000 lump sum plus 1.5 additional ‘SPA’ time for the first 24 months to thank you for choosing to work with ESNEFT.
The post-holder’s duties will be primarily at the Colchester General Hospital, but their presence may from time to time be required in other parts of the Trust.
The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be:
1. Participate in the dedicated CCU on-call rota with other colleagues.
2. Provide day time cover for Critical Care and support the Outreach service.
3. Have a special interest in Critical Care Medicine.
4. Work flexibly to cover theatre sessions/allied specialties.
5. Take an active part in the supervision and management of junior medical staff, including formal teaching programmes and clinical audits.
6. Participate in appraisal and assessment of junior medical staff and undergraduates, and performance of clinical audit as delegated by the Unit Training Director.
7. Teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate.
8. Participate fully in the clinical incident reporting system.
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.
The post-holder will:
1. Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care.
2. Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines.
3. Develop and maintain good working practices.
4. Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care.
5. Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
6. Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within their area of responsibility.
7. Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained.
8. Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviour agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within their area and take remedial action where poor behaviours are demonstrated.
9. Ensure that junior doctor’s training conforms to College requirements.
10. Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trust’s agreed policy.
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