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Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Paediatric Surgery

Employer
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Manchester
Salary
£61,825 per annum
Closing date
16 Nov 2024
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Job Details

Fixed term for 6 months.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. It is the largest children's hospital in the UK with 371 beds. The hospital provides children's emergency, secondary and regional tertiary services.

The Department of Paediatric Surgery is the specialist children's surgery centre in North West England including Neonatal, Oncological, Thoracic, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and specialist day-case surgery, and the surgery of intestinal failure and short bowel supra-regional service supporting exstrophy, hyperinsulinaemia of the New-born, Metabolic disorders.

Please note: MFT is not a right to work sponsoring organisation for Tier 5. Should a candidate require Tier 5 sponsorship, they must apply through the Academy of Royal College via the MTI Scheme.

Main duties of the job

We require Senior Locally Employed Doctors to work at ST3-8 level, as part of a surgical team with Junior Locally Employed Doctors and Consultants. Daytime duties comprise clinical activity on the wards, in theatres and out-patient clinics. A 1:10 on-call rota will be undertaken with the other middle grade trainees and Locally Employed Doctors.

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description
Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential

  • Medical degree
  • Significant postgraduate work experience working in an acute setting (or equivalent gained on part-time or flexible basis), in a specialty training programme in paediatric surgery / urology or as a fixed term specialty trainee in paediatric surgery / urology.
  • Demonstrable experience working in paediatric surgery / urology and assessing and managing common paediatric surgical emergencies

Desirable

  • MRCS
  • APLS accreditation

Audit
Essential

  • Experience of Audit

Academic Achievements
Desirable

  • Research & Publications
  • Distinctions or Prizes during undergraduate training

Interpersonal Skills
Essential

  • Organisation skills
  • Communication skills
  • Team working skills

Other Requirements
Essential

  • Candidates must be eligible for their own GMC registration: an active licence, ceased license or pending application with the GMC at the point of application. Candidates who do not fit this criteria will not progress through to the shortlisting stage

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