The Trust Doctor at the Paediatric Surgical Trust Grade Doctor position where possible will be tailored to an individuals training desires.
The routine work includes care of patients in the Leeds General Infirmary, with exposure to theatre lists and out-patient clinics.
The post is full time and the appointee will be expected to take part in the Resident out of hours rota(1:10 rolling pattern including night shifts). The majority of the out of hours involves general Paediatric surgery, Neonatal surgery and Trauma. The candidate will therefore be expected to have competencies in the management of the sick child and a range of acute and elective work preferably with some training or experience in Paediatric Surgery.
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Equivalent generic experience and competencies through paediatrics or emergency medicine for example will also be considered favourably.
The department provides a wide range of General and specialist Paediatric surgery including minimal invasive surgery and robotic surgery.
These posts would particularly benefit applicants interested in pursuing a career in Paediatric surgery or other surgical specialties with a significant paediatric workload.
Main Duties of the Trust Doctor
The post holder will support the on call rota equivalent to ST1-ST2. The Doctor will be rotated to cover the paediatric surgical ward on 42, surgical newborn unit, outliers, ED, LCAT (short stay) units and theatres or clinics. This gives ample opportunity to see the breadth of patients in paediatric surgery and manage them both in an elective and emergency context.
There are several theatre lists both emergency and elective on a daily basis and clinics most days. All are encouraged to go to take advantage of any of these as per their choice and availability. All trainees are allocated a clinical supervisor within the department and if they do not have an educational supervisor in their rotation are allocated one within the department as well.
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All trainees should attend the daily morning handover at 8:00- 8:30am and join the ward round if they are not going to either theatre or clinic.
About Us
The department provides exposure to all surgical aspects of children ranging from 0 16 years.
This includes general surgery of childhood to highly specialised skills in Thoracic Surgery, Upper GI Surgery, Lower GI Surgery, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Oncology Surgery, Neonatal Surgery and Urology. There are 2/3 consultants per specialty providing elective specialty work and all consultants participate in acute on call (1:10) to provide general surgery for children and trauma service.Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying ‘at risk’ members of our existing workforce to new roles.
As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
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