HealthJobsUK

Job overview

We are offering an opportunity to join East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust at a very exciting time.  Six posts for Clinical Fellows in Anaesthesia have been created to support the opening of the new Essex and Suffolk Elective Orthopaedic Centre (ESEOC) scheduled for October 2024.  The successful applicants will join an established and enthusiastic team in delivering high quality anaesthesia on the Colchester site.  These new posts will be based in the purpose built £64million Dame Clare Marx Building (DCMB, the home of ESEOC) where Clinical Fellows will be supported by visiting consultants from Ipswich and West Suffolk Hospitals as well as Colchester anaesthetists.

Posts for 12 months initially, possibly extendable by mutual agreement.

Main duties of the job

The post holders will be expected to provide anaesthesia for elective orthopaedic surgery with local consultant supervision.  They will be expected to follow local guidelines and protocols, including enhanced recovery pathways.

The successful candidates would be expected to participate in the ESEOC rota covering the 2-4 bed POCU in the Dame Clare Marx Building with a frequency of no greater than 1 in 6, provide support to the Foundation Doctor covering the 3 elective orthopaedic wards (up to 72 beds in total), assess deteriorating patients and escalate care as necessary (which could include the transfer of unstable patients to the main hospital critical care unit). 

The Clinical Fellows will be based in the DCMB at all times and will not be expected to contribute to other on call rotas, except in extenuating circumstances.  So far as is consistent with the proper discharge of the above duties, the post holder undertakes to deputise from time to time for absent colleagues, and exceptionally to perform additional duties in emergencies or unforeseen circumstances. Responsibilities will include the supervision of junior staff, teaching, training and participation in departmental governance and quality improvement meetings.

Working for our organisation

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.

our website and Come and Join us recruitment video.