Foundation Year 1 Doctors - Surgery

The post is not recognised for training and the post holder cannot be signed off as achieving Foundation competencies in this post. However, the post holder will be given the opportunity to work together with a Clinical Supervisor and an Educational Supervisor utilising the NHS ePortfolio.
The post holder should have opportunity to attend essential courses like ALERT and ALS. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to attend departmental teaching for their professional development and will be given opportunities to acquire skills that are generic to all doctors.
This post will provide the post holder with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be able to:-
+ Take a history and examine a patient.
+ Identify and synthesize problems
+ Prescribe safely
+ Keep an accurate and relevant medical record
+ Manage time and clinical priorities effectively
+ Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues
+ Use evidence, guidelines and audit to benefit patient care
+ Act in a professional manner at all times
+ Cope with ethical and legal issues which occur during the management of patients.
+ Educate patients effectively.
+ Become a life-long learner and researcher., The appointee will also take part in the Surgical full shift rota, including night shifts and weekends and experience will be gained in the identification and assessment of common surgical emergencies: -
+ Develop confidence in assessing general surgical patients through history taking and clinical examination.
+ To learn the management of common surgical emergencies.
+ To develop an awareness of those issues which affect a patient's fitness for an operation and how these might be managed, eg the perioperative management of the diabetic.
+ To learn how to recognise the critically ill patient.
+ How to resuscitate the critically ill patient.
+ To become familiar with the post-operative management of surgical patients.
+ To attend operating theatre sessions in order to develop an understanding of the principles, underlying the practice of surgery with an emphasis on wound care and suturing
The post holder will be expected to keep themselves up to date with current knowledge and practice, to attend clinical meetings within the department and to participate in audit and "in-service" training of other healthcare professionals.
The post holder may be required to deputise for absent colleagues from time to time and to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.
The post holder will also be required to be available exceptionally for such irregular commitments outside normal rostered duties as are essential for continuity of patient care
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Trust Grade Foundation Year 1 doctor for a 12 month fixed term period commencing August 2024.
This post will be based at the Aintree site, which is located in Fazakerley, Liverpool. The post will give the opportunity for the post holder to gain experience across a range of surgical areas over the 12 month period at Foundation Year 1 level in areas including Emergency General Surgery and Trauma/Orthopaedics. The post holder will be expected to participate in the FY1 1:31 Full Shift Rota.

• Please note this vacancy may close early once sufficient applications have been received, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.