WELCOME

Welcome to East Suffolk and North Essex foundation trust (ESNEFT). ESNEFT provide services from Colchester and Ipswich hospitals, Aldeburgh, Clacton, Halstead, Harwich and Felixstowe community hospitals and Bluebird Lodge near Ipswich. It serves a population of close to one million people in a diverse range of settings from large inner city communities to rural and coastal settings. It is the largest healthcare employer in the East of England and is focussed on provided high quality care in as timely a fashion as possible.

The trust values the education and training of all its staff highly and this is overseen by a multiprofessional faculty of education. We provide undergraduate medical education, working in partnership with medical schools in Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, University of East Anglia and Queen Mary University of London. We are part of the East of England foundation school and postgraduate rotations and have approximately 500 post graduate medical trainees across our sites in a variety of medical and surgical specialities as well as foundation dentists.

Your education will be supported by a vibrant training team with an active programme of robotic and laprascopic surgery training based in the ICENI centre in Colchester and the East Anglian simulation centre in Ipswich.

Access to state-of-the-art simulation and virtual reality training equipment supplements an extensive library service on both sites.

At ESNEFT you will be welcomed into a multiprofessional team . Although our workforce is large, ESNEFT prides itself on being a welcoming and supportive place to work and our experienced team in medical education will do all they can to support you to achieve your aims.

I hope this prospectus will encourage you to explore potential careers in ESNEFT and I look forward to welcoming and supporting your learning in the future.

Dr Peter Bishop FRCA FFICM Consultant Intensive care and Anaesthetics Director of Medical Education

Hello and Welcome to East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust.

The Medical Education Team look after over 1500 Undergraduate Medical Students, Physician Associate Students, Dental Trainees and Postgraduate Doctors in Training. We have dedicated admin teams on both of our main sites, Ipswich and Colchester. We can be found in the Postgraduate Medical Education Centre, Villa 8, Colchester and in the Postgraduate Medical Education Centre in the main hospital building at Ipswich Hospital.

We are here to support you, and to ensure you have the best training experience during your time at ESNEFT.

We actively encourage your feedback and we appoint trainee representatives from our training programmes each year. We take your wellbeing seriously. We operate an open door policy and encourage our students and Doctors in training to talk to us if they have any issues or concerns.

We have excellent Junior Doctors’ Mess facilities on both sites and a very active programme of events including annual balls, sports teams (football, netball and badminton) and social events.

In Colchester, there is a healthy mix of bars, cinemas, restaurants, theatres and night clubs and Ipswich has a very vibrant and eclectic mix of restaurants, entertainment and the area around the Marina is a popular place for our Doctors in Training. We are also surrounded by beautiful countryside, rivers and east coast fishing villages and resorts.

We look forward to you joining us at ESNEFT’

Nora Tester, Head of Medical Education