Foundation doctor training opportunities
We have a comprehensive medical educational and training programme for our foundation doctors, find out more by expanding the sections below.
Foundation training
We provide foundation training for over 150 first year (FY1) and 150 second year (FY2) trainees each year.
Our well-established training programme covers the comprehensive curriculum.
Opportunities include less than full-time and bespoke training posts, as well as academic posts.
Useful links and connections
East of England Health Education England - https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/foundation/welcome-foundation
Health Education England foundation information - https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/foundation
Foundation recruitment - https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/foundation/foundation-recruitment
Application and Starting information - https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/foundation/foundation-recruitment/application-and-starting-information
Interested?
If you would like to undertake your foundation training with us, make your application via the Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire (EBH) Foundation School, who are our Trust’s linked foundation school.
If you have any questions, please contact the site that you’re interested in, below:
- Basildon Hospital – email angela.white53@nhs.net and christine.wayman@nhs.net
- Broomfield Hospital - email mse.foundationdoctors@nhs.net
- Southend Hospital - email patricia.turner21@nhs.net.
How the Medical Education team supports students
The Medical Education department is involved directly in the training programme at various levels:
- Induction into the foundation training programme, including orientation to the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust and its values, the hospital, clinical software, and the Horus eportfolio
- Providing support and debriefing throughout the programme
- Organisation of rotations/ward placements
- Assignment of educational and clinical supervisors for each foundation trainee
- Close correspondence with rota co-ordinators
- Organisation of a range of training across core- and non-core training (with weekly mandatory teaching), including lectures, HUB days, simulation training (working closely with the Simulation Suite team), and procedural skills training
- Administrative oversight such as management of sick leave and study leave
- Monitoring completion of portfolio tasks
- Ensuring compliance with ARCP requirements and sign-off of ARCP.
Foundation doctors are encouraged to join the Junior Doctors forum, which our guardian of safe working attends and our Foundation doctors are encouraged to actively participate. We also have F1 and F2 representative positions whose role is to liaise regularly with their peer trainees to capture their views and provide feedback at the local Foundation faculty group meetings as well as at the Medical Education Board Meetings.
Foundation doctors benefit from a wide range of simulation training and procedural skills training by the simulation team. This includes the hi-fidelity HAART (Hospital Acute Assessment and Response Training) full day course at Southend, the BSAFE course at Basildon (a full-day, interactive ward-based simulation aimed at improving skills in the recognition of and management of the deteriorating patient), and similar training at Broomfield. These sessions additionally provide important training in non-technical skills like communication, teamwork and coping with stress.
Feedback from Foundation doctors after completing the BSAFE course:
Getting exposure to complicated medical scenarios in a safe place to practice and be confident to learn from mistakes.