Job Description
1 year Fixed Term posts
The appointees will primarily work as part of a dynamic and flexible team comprising of a growing team of Acute Physicians (Aps) in looking after patients in General Medicine whilst providing additional support for the development of services within General Medicine and also providing senior cover in addition to participating in the Registrar on-call rota.
Responsibilities will include demonstrating good leadership and providing supervision for junior staff. There will be involvement in regular teaching programme as well as participating in weekly meetings and monthly audit meetings.
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.
This post is not recognised by the Royal College of Physician for general professional training. However this post offers an exciting opportunity to expand and consolidate the post-holder’s current medical knowledge. The successful applicant will receive training in Acute Medicine and General Medicine and depending on the individual’s interest an arrangement can be made for participation in sub-specialty clinics. The post-holder will have a valuable opportunity to participate in further development of services, which forms an important part of higher medical training. Applicants must have MRCP (UK) or the equivalent.