LED ENT Resident Doctor ST1/ST2

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join our expanding patient centred and supportive ENT department at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting time to join us with opportunity to support inpatient and outpatient transformation as part of a blended workforce as we develop inpatient and outpatient pathways.

Our ENT service has a small team of 5 consultants, two speciality doctors, two speciality trainees and 6 junior doctors. This role will require the delivery of face-to-face onsite clinical sessions. The provision of assessment and management of a range of ENT conditions. Educate patients and their families on conditions, treatment options, and post-operative care. Stay current with advancements in ENT treatments, technologies, and best practices.

This post will provide the successful candidate with excellent experience and training in ENT.

This post will offer candidates a unique opportunity to consolidate their experience in a busy and supportive NHS foundation hospital and provide a stepping-stone to the next level of clinical experience. They will have educational teaching, learning and assessment equivalent to those on national speciality programmes.

Each doctor will have an educational supervisor in line with the speciality GMC curriculum.

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• Co-ordinate the day-to-day care of patients across all wards.
• Involvement in complex clinical management problems and multi-disciplinary discharge planning under the supervision of the registrar. 
• To support the review of patients from varying clinical services including paediatrics and cardio thoracic.
• Engage fully with departmental clinical audit, clinical governance, and quality   improvement activities.
•  Be on call approximately 1 in 6 resident with prospective cover to meet the needs of the service.
• Undertake appropriate administrative duties related to clinical practice.
• Actively contribute to teaching, service development, and continuous professional development programmes. Study leave will be available.
• Maintain up-to-date compliance with mandatory training and GMC re validation requirements.
• Co-ordinate the day-to-day care of patients across all wards.
• Involvement in complex clinical patient management problems and multi-disciplinary discharge planning.
• To support the review of patients from varying clinical services including paediatrics and cardio thoracic.
•  Engage fully with departmental clinical audit, clinical governance, and quality improvement activities.
• Be on call approximately 1 in 6 resident with prospective cover to meet the needs of  the service.

Working for our organisation

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a resident population of approximately 330,000 and the 12 million holidaymakers who visit the area every year. The Trust comprises Blackpool Victoria Hospital which is a large busy acute hospital and a smaller community/ rehabilitation hospital - Clifton Hospital. Outpatient services are also provided in Blackpool, Fleetwood and Lytham Hospital. The Trust is also responsible for the provision of a wide range of community healthcare services, including District Nursing, Community Matrons and therapy services.

The organisation provides specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. We also have specialised Cardio-thoracic Surgical and Sleep Medicine services (including polysomnography) and provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.