Foundation Year 1 Doctors - Surgery

Job overview

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Trust Grade Foundation Year 1 doctor for a 12 month fixed term period commencing 4th August 2026.  Job will close at application cap.

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 1:32 Full Shift Rota.

**Please note this vacancy may close early once sufficient applications have been received**

Main duties of the job

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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