Job overview

To assist in maintaining and developing the service locally; prepared to work as part of a team.

The General Surgery service provides inpatient ward care and the post holder will be expected to undertake weekly ward rounds on a rotational basis within the team.

There are also additional duties within the service and as such, the post holder will be expected to cover clinics, assist in theatre, to take part in audit activities and to be involved in teaching and training the General Surgery junior doctors.

The post will serve to provide advice and treatment to a variety of patients presenting with general surgery problems. The General Surgery service also provides an out of hours on call service; the post holder will participate in this on call EGS rota (Emergency General Surgery)

Main duties of the job

Primarily based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow with visits to outpatient clinics at St Margaret’s Hospital Epping and Herts and Essex Hospital Bishops Stortford. The Registrar will over-sea the management of the inpatients on a day to day basis accompanying the Consultant on ward rounds and partake in the on call rota.

The post holder will attend outpatient clinics with the Consultant and independently and assist with operating theatre lists and perform surgery under supervision of a Consultant.          

When on-call the post holder is responsible for the supervision and care of all those patients requiring admission to one of the wards. They may also be required to give a general surgery opinion on other patients in the hospital.

In the absence of the Consultant the post holder will take charge of all of the cases under their care and will direct the treatment as required. They will communicate with one of the other Consultant General Surgeons for advice and support if required.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.