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Applications are invited for the post of a substantive upper gastrointestinal and bariatric surgeon at Colchester General Hospital, which is part of the East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT). This is a new post which has been created to support the commencement of our weight management service which incorporates both medical and surgical pathways.

This is a rare opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic candidate to be part of a multi-disciplinary team creating a new weight management service and guide its future direction. Candidates would need to have a commitment to teaching and would have received training in advanced laparoscopic surgery. 

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The post holder will:

• Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
•  Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
• Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, out-patients and the ED
• Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care
•  Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary
• Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility
• 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
• Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated
•   Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
• Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trust’s agree policy
•  Become part of the ICENI teaching faculty in delivering or facilitating courses/programmes.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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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