Specialist in General Medicine

West Suffolk Foundation Trust are recruiting for a Specialty Doctor to join the G10 ward team in General Medicine based on the main hospital site. This role plays a vital part in ensuring our patients receive the care that they need and will be an integral role in the G10 team. This role is central to delivering high quality, person centred care by providing skilled clinical input, supporting complex assessments, and contributing to robust treatment planning.

Working closely with two other Doctors and the wider multidisciplinary team, the post holder will help ensure continuity of care, timely interventions, and safe, effective service delivery. The position offers the opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills, take on meaningful responsibility within the team, and play an important part in improving outcomes.

The role may also lead to weekend on-call commitments to support the Emergency Department pressures, should the right candidate be recruited.

Please see attached job description for more detail.

The successful applicant will support the current delivery of general medical inpatient services at the West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant must have the pre-requisite leadership skills as well as team work, drive and ambition to succeed in achieving Ward G10 goals. It must be noted that during the Covid-19 pandemic, G10 was opened as an isolation ward, and on occasions (especially during winter pressures), a number of bays would be selected to be converted to contact flu/Covid areas.

Although all doctors within the department work to the framework of a job plan, there is a longstanding culture that applies the spirit of the contract where colleagues' cross-cover sessions in most areas to support leave or sickness and to help maintain the smooth working and efficiency of the department.

Please see attached job description for more detail.

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

The Hospital has a 24-hour Emergency Department and a full range of Medical, Surgical and other specialties, with a total of around 500 beds. In addition, there is a Day Surgery Unit and a Hospice with a 12-bedded unit. Consultants who visit from Cambridge provide specialty services such as Plastic Surgery. There is a wide range of radiological diagnostic facilities provided by various Consultant Radiologists including CT scanning (spiral), ultrasound, isotope imaging and MRI.

Acute medicine is centred on the AMU as well as the new acute admissions unit (AAU). There is a Cardiac Unit which provides pacemaker insertions as well as primary angiograms. The hospital is well supported by Radiological, Pathology Laboratory and Surgical Services.

In-patients are triaged to their most appropriate medical speciality ward e.g. cardiac, acute respiratory, stroke unit etc. There is a well-structured multidisciplinary team meeting on each ward which will set goals to facilitate a reduction in length of stay.

The Consultants who work within the Medical Directorate.

There is an excellent Education Centre, which provides a varied programme of lectures, and regular weekly meetings organised in a wide variety of specialities. There is an excellent multi-disciplinary library, which is well stocked with textbooks, standard journals, with extensive computer facilities with access to intranet and, the Internet. There are numerous education and seminar rooms and several clinical skills areas.

The appointee will be expected to take part in teaching the doctors in training in the Department of Medicine as…