Bank ST- Paediatrics

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is one of the biggest trusts in the country, following the merger of Mid Essex, Basildon and Southend hospitals in April 2020.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the onlyacute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

The appointee will be expected to undertake audit and quality improvement projects, as well as to attend clinical governance meetings, mortality and morbidity meetings, regional and national educational meetings. Research activity is encouraged.

The appointee will actively participate in the local educational programme of teaching undergraduates as well as postgraduates.

Our Paediatric department is currently recruiting an enthusiastic, dedicated and experienced Trust Clinical Fellow (ST4-ST8 Level) to join our team. Ideally, you will have a minimum of one year’s NHS experience at registrar level.

Our Neptune Children’s Ward was commissioned in May 1995 and is situated in a wing of nucleus design. Neptune Children’s Unit has 27 beds and a seven bedded Paediatric Page 2 of 11 Page 4 of 11 Assessment Unit for triage assessment and treatment. The PAU has an annual throughput of approximately 4,000 children.

On the Children’s Ward elective, emergency and day-stay surgery is accommodated as well as medical emergency and day-stay admissions. There are three six bedded rooms, a four-cot nursery divided into separate cubicles and remaining beds are within side-rooms. There are several high dependency beds on the ward to enable sick children to be managed locally where possible.

Excellent links are in place with Great Ormond Street and other tertiary centres, many providing visiting Consultants for joint specialist multidisciplinary clinics.

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The hospital itself currently has around 730 beds and 19 operating theatres with plans to expand day surgery facilities. Southend is a cancer centre and offers major colorectal, gynaecology and urology surgery, ranging from open total pelvic exenterations to laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Our perioperative care is national award winning for its novel combined anaesthetic and geriatrician pre-assessment clinics for older people with colorectal cancer and we are approved to offer perioperative medicine as a specialist interest area of training.

Southend is also a busy orthopaedic trauma unit and was one of only three hospitals in the UK which recorded improved performance across all key indicators last year. We also have dedicated paediatric day stay lists, including eyes and dental, ENT, an obstetric unit with 3500 deliveries a year and consultant-led ring fenced elective caesarean section lists, and a critical care unit led by anaesthetists, commissioned for 9 level 3 beds and 8 level 2 beds.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 17,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.
We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and…