Job Description
We are seeking applications for the post of a 12 Month Fixed Term Locum Consultant Paediatrician to join the Paediatric team at Colchester Hospital, and are particularly interested in candidates with an interest in Paediatric Diabetes. From May 2023 Maternity Cover
It is an exciting time for our service, as we are currently planning to redevelop our Neonatal Unit to provide a space that meets the needs of all of our families and babies, and expect this work should start in 2025.
We have also recently opened a Young Person’s Unit to accept young people to the age of 19 within the department as a six month pilot initially.
General Paediatrics at Colchester Hospital is located in a purpose-built building that comprises a 20-bed inpatient ward including a 2-bed HDU bay, an adjacent Children’s Assessment Unit, open 24/7, a Children’s Elective Care Unit and a Children’s Outpatient Unit with 12 consulting rooms.
Overall there are around 2,000 acute paediatric admissions to the Children’s Ward and over 14,000 outpatient attendances every year. CAU activity continues to increase year on year.
The High Dependency Unit comprises a bay within the Children’s Ward with two funded beds, but the ability to flex up to 4 HDU patients at any one time. There is also a nearby side room used for high dependency patients requiring isolation
The successful candidate will undertake outpatient activity which will include a specialty caseload along with a general paediatric caseload, and will support the 1:12 rota covering our inpatient unit, and assessment areas
The rota currently comprises 12 WTE Consultants (with some part time members of the team) and covers the inpatient ward, Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU), Children’s Elective Care Unit, and our 17 cot Neonatal Unit
We would like you to help us provide the best care and experience for the communities we serve in east Suffolk and north Essex. You can find out more about us onour websiteand please take a look at ourCome and Join us recruitment video.
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’re investing £100million over five years in a capital building programme to transform services at our hospitals and make sure patients and staff have the best possible environments.
At Ipswich Hospital
- We are building a new Urgent Care Centre and Emergency Department – a single front door to help make sure patients are seen promptly and by the right specialist team.
- We are remodelling and refurbishing the children’s department to create a child-friendly environment fit for the 21st century.
- We are building a state-of-the-art breast care centre to being all elements of breast care – clinic, imaging and screening – under one roof.
- Open now – a state-of-the-art pathology molecular lab giving us a full diagnostic toolkit
At Colchester Hospital
- We’re building a dedicated £49million elective orthopaedic centre for patients from Essex and Suffolk who need planned, orthopaedic surgery.
- In 2022 we will open a specialist centre for interventional radiology and cardiac angiography.
- We are redesigning and upgrading our emergency and urgent care areas
The Neonatal Unit is situated nearby, located immediately adjacent to the Delivery Suite. It is designated as a Level 2 Unit (Local Neonatal Unit) as per BAPM Guidelines. There are 17 cots (1 designated intensive care cot, 3 HDU and 13 SCBU).
The ICU and HDU occupancy can be flexible depending on activity. Infants below 27 weeks gestation, those requiring surgery and those needing non-conventional and/or prolonged ventilation are stabilised prior to transfer to a Level 3 unit. There are approaching 4000 deliveries per year.
The Emergency Department sits within the Division of Medicine, but with the children’s nursing workforce managed by Children’s Services with staff rotating between the Children’s Assessment Unit and Emergency Department. Medical assessment is provided by the Emergency Department team with review of patients by paediatrics as required