Fixed term post until August 2025 provides job security while gaining valuable experience.
No on-call or weekend working, allowing for a better work-life balance.
Opportunities to rotate across different older people's wards every 4 months, broadening clinical experience.
40 hours of clinical activity agreed with the ward consultant, ensuring structured work hours.
Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities to enhance professional skills.
Generous benefits package, including 27 days of annual leave (pro rata) and a pension scheme.
Strong focus on staff health and wellbeing, with various support services available.
Are you a dedicated healthcare professional looking for a fulfilling opportunity in the heart of Ipswich? Join our compassionate team at the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust as a Locally Employed Doctor (LED) in Geriatric and General Medicine. This fixed-term position offers you the chance to work in a supportive environment focused on providing exceptional care for our elderly patients. You’ll collaborate closely with consultants and a committed ward team, managing a diverse range of cases with the flexibility to rotate to different wards every four months, enhancing your expertise while making a real difference in the community.
We're proud to be one of the largest NHS organisations in England, dedicated to empowering our staff with extensive training and development opportunities. With no on-call duties and an emphasis on work-life balance, you'll find that our commitment to your well-being includes generous annual leave, a robust pension scheme, and NHS discounts. Join us in our mission where Time Matters—an initiative that streamlines processes to ensure you can focus on what truly matters: your patients. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and champion elderly care, we’d love to hear from you. For more information or to arrange an informal visit, please reach out to Dr Jane Shoote or Dr Dan Coates at ESNEFT. Together, let’s create a brighter future for our communities.
We're proud to be one of the largest NHS organisations in England, dedicated to empowering our staff with extensive training and development opportunities. With no on-call duties and an emphasis on work-life balance, you'll find that our commitment to your well-being includes generous annual leave, a robust pension scheme, and NHS discounts. Join us in our mission where Time Matters—an initiative that streamlines processes to ensure you can focus on what truly matters: your patients. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and champion elderly care, we’d love to hear from you. For more information or to arrange an informal visit, please reach out to Dr Jane Shoote or Dr Dan Coates at ESNEFT. Together, let’s create a brighter future for our communities.
Fixed term post until August 2025 provides job security while gaining valuable experience.
No on-call or weekend working, allowing for a better work-life balance.
Opportunities to rotate across different older people's wards every 4 months, broadening clinical experience.
40 hours of clinical activity agreed with the ward consultant, ensuring structured work hours.
Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities to enhance professional skills.
Generous benefits package, including 27 days of annual leave (pro rata) and a pension scheme.
Strong focus on staff health and wellbeing, with various support services available.
An opportunity has arisen to join our team at Ipswich Hospital and East Suffolk Community Hospitals. We are inviting applications for a Locally Employed Doctor (LED) at a level of FY2 or above in Geriatric and General Medicine.
This is a fixed term post until the 31st of August 2025 in the first instance.
The successful candidate will join the resident doctors team based at Ipswich Hospital and be a part of the wider older people’s medicine LED workforce. They will work with an older people services Consultant, and resident doctor ward team managing 28 patients on one of the Older Peoples Wards. The post is rotational with opportunities to rotate to a different older people’s ward every 4 months across both the acute and community (dependent on duration of the post).
The role is ward based, there is no on-call or expectation of weekend working. Hours of operation are agreed with the ward consultant, ensuring that 40 hours of clinical activity are delivered across the working week.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Find out about living and working here - www.jobsincare.com/job/jblirQVd further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Jane Shoote or Dr Dan Coates Job title: Clinical lead Email address: Telephone number:
Requests for visits to the unit should be made to:
Dr Jane Shoote or Dr Dan Coates
Clinical leads
Email: or
Direct line (Secretary)
This is a fixed term post until the 31st of August 2025 in the first instance.
The successful candidate will join the resident doctors team based at Ipswich Hospital and be a part of the wider older people’s medicine LED workforce. They will work with an older people services Consultant, and resident doctor ward team managing 28 patients on one of the Older Peoples Wards. The post is rotational with opportunities to rotate to a different older people’s ward every 4 months across both the acute and community (dependent on duration of the post).
The role is ward based, there is no on-call or expectation of weekend working. Hours of operation are agreed with the ward consultant, ensuring that 40 hours of clinical activity are delivered across the working week.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Find out about living and working here - www.jobsincare.com/job/jblirQVd further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Jane Shoote or Dr Dan Coates Job title: Clinical lead Email address: Telephone number:
Requests for visits to the unit should be made to:
Dr Jane Shoote or Dr Dan Coates
Clinical leads
Email: or
Direct line (Secretary)
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