Consultant - Emergency & General Surgery | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

We invite applications 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 post is full time comprising 11 Programmed Activities (PAs).

The Trust is committed to the NHS policy of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC). The post holder 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.

The appointed Consultant will be part of a team of 6 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 Emergency Surgical Team (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 on call system template works with 10 Consultants(6 Colorectal Consultants, 4 UGI Consultants.)10 SPRs,10 SHOsand10 F1son a rolling Rota.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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