An opportunity has arisen for up to two Specialty doctors to join a vibrant, cohesive, forward thinking department in the beautiful South West. This offers outstanding work-life balance. The posts can flexibly offer a variety of subspecialty clinical interests. Our SAS team are highly valued and we actively support career development such as working towards CESR accreditation and appointment to departmental non-clinical roles in an equitable fashion. Our department is extremely friendly and supportive. The Trust has an active education/networking programme locally and regionally for Specialty doctors and Associate Specialists.

We support a number of region-wide services and thus have excellent subspecialty opportunities in vascular surgery, bariatric surgery, spinal surgery and paediatrics and are currently developing a premier perioperative medicine service. In addition to this, we work with excellent surgical colleagues to provide high quality services for most other district general specialties.

Staff are rightly proud of our CQC ‘Caring - Outstanding’ rating and we have a dedicated and very active hospital Quality Improvement Team. Our department is rated by anaesthetic trainees as a friendly & supportive place to learn (GMC survey), and was scored “excellent” in recent quality panels for both ICU and anaesthetics. Many of our trainees choose to return as permanent staff as they value our supportive and friendly ethos.

Musgrove Park is an NHS Acute Global Digital Exemplar site and as part of this we have a well -developed Electronic Patient Management system and Electronic prescribing.

What is great about Taunton? It is a medium sized county town surrounded by stunning hills that offer many leisure activities such mountain biking, climbing and walking as well as international music festivals and sporting fixtures. We have lower levels of tourism than much of the South West, but easy access to miles of glorious coastline, beautiful national trust parks, larger towns such as Exeter (45mins) and Bristol (1 hour), both of which have active airports. Housing prices and land are far more affordable than other parts of the South West and Somerset offers some of the best state and independent schools in the country.

We work an annualised hours system within the department, which allows us flexibility to pursue the many opportunities available to ourselves and our families in this stunning part of the world.

We are seeking team-playing colleague with excellent clinical skills who will enjoy the challenges of working in a busy DGH, have enthusiasm and vision to help us develop and deliver patient centred high-quality services.

For further inquiries please contact:

Dr Joseph Silsby (Clinical service lead) joseph.silsby@somersetft.nhs.uk

Dr. Mark Abou-Samra ( SAS Tutor and Consultant Anaesthetist) mark.abou-samra@somersetft.nhs.uk

Dr Hemant Aaytee (SAS Anaesthetic Lead) hemant.aaytee@somersetft.nhs.uk

If you would like to discuss the application process for this role please contact Jordan Pollard, Medical Recruitment Consultant on 07765898212 or Jordan.Pollard@somersetft.nhs.uk