Trust Doctor in Trauma and Orthopaedics | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for enthusiastic, motivated and committed individuals to join our friendly and dynamic team within the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk & North Essex Foundation NHS Trust.

We're an ambitious NHS trust committed to removing unnecessary stress and frustration for you and your patients, providing you with more time to care and make the most of your skills. If your ambition matches ours, we'd love to hear from you - come and join us.

The successful candidate must have the capacity to apply sound clinical
knowledge and judgement and the potential to develop excellent diagnostic skills.

The post holders duties will be based primarily at Colchester General Hospital but their presence may from time to time be required in other parts of the Trust.

The Trust Doctor will have the principle responsibility of supporting the Orthopaedic team. Additionally the post-holder will take part in the out of hours rota. Responsibilities will include involvement in a regular teaching programme as well as participating in weekly meetings and monthly audit meetings. Responsibilities will also include the supervision of junior staff and involvement in a 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.

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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The post-holder's clinical duties will include, care of ward patients, all aspects of elective orthopaedic trauma, admission and primary care of emergencies, attending the operating theatre for trauma and elective lists and have the opportunity for clinical research. The post-holder will also participate in the departments full shift rota.