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Job overview

We invite applications for 2 full-time posts is for our Consultant in Emergency & General Surgery vacancy. The post holders will join the existing Surgical Team delivering care in the Surgical Emergency Unit (SEU).

The posts are full time comprising 10-11 Programmed Activities (PAs).

These are new posts to help develop the delivery of the Emergency General Surgery service. The individuals appointed will be involved in the development of a new service delivery plan. The Trust is committed to the NHS policy of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC). The post holders will have an important role, in partnership with whole General surgical team in further developing the Unit in line with SDEC. The Department is reviewing all roles.  

This post has been developed to reflect the Royal College of Surgeons guidance on NHS Surgical Consultant Job Descriptions, June 2016.

General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to: Mr. David Gerrard Chief of Service, General Surgery and Urology Services – 0300 6134772

Main duties of the job

The newly appointed Consultants will be part of a team of 5 SEU consultants who, between them will support the emergency service from Monday-Friday covering CEPOD operating (07:30-13:30hrs), Emergency Surgery Ambulatory Clinics and “Hot Clinics” (09:00-13:00hrs)

They will provide frontline consultant cover for emergency surgical admissions and supervise/guide junior EST staff in the management of acute surgical admissions in SEU/A&E (13:30-20:30) and planned CEPOD operating.

Currently, EST on-call duties are provided by these consultants on Tuesday and Thursday nights 8pm-8am. The outline Job Plan will incorporate specialty interest elective commitments & provision for Consultants career/development in one of the Trusts’ subspecialties.

We will integrate in the SEU consultants working with the EST.

The SEU consultant maintains ownership of their emergency and elective patients.

The current Emergency Surgical Team (EST) on call system template works with 10 Consultants (6 Colorectal Consultants, 4 UGI Consultants.) 10 SPRs, 10 SHOs and 10 F1s on a rolling Rota. 

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.