• Advert number: 185771-0
• Posted Date: 11/12/08

Severn Deanery

www.severndeanery.nhs.uk

Postgraduate Dean: Prof Davinder Sandhu

Severn Deanery, Deanery House, Unit D, Vantage Office Park,
Hambrook, Bristol BS16 1GW. Tel: 01173 403463

Trusts in our domain

2gether NHS Foundation Trust – (Gloucester and Cheltenham Hospitals)
North Bristol NHS Trust (Frenchay and Southmead Hospitals)
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust (Royal United Hospital)
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Great Western Hospital)
Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (Musgrove Park Hospital)
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Weston Area Health NHS Trust (Weston General Hospital)
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Yeovil District Hospital) Partnership Trusts
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust

Profile

The Severn Deanery is part of NHS South West the Strategic Health
Authorities and working in tandem with colleagues in the Peninsula
Deanery oversees junior doctor training in the largest geographical area
in the SHA structure – stretching from Land’s End to Tewkesbury.
The Severn Deanery is responsible for the planning, commissioning
and management of postgraduate medical and dental education and
training in Somerset, Avon, Gloucestershire and parts of Wiltshire.
The deanery patch serves a population of approximately 4 million. It
has a healthcare workforce in excess of 70,000, with a breadth of learning
and working environments, including some of the largest teaching
hospitals nationally and some of the smallest rural primary care trusts.
There are over 2,000 trainees at any one time. The span is from
Taunton in the South to Cheltenham in the North, Bristol in the West
and Swindon in the East. The deanery covers a spread of approximately,
85 miles North to South and 40 miles East to West.
With Bristol located relatively centrally in the footprint and with the
largest concentration of trainees (University Hospitals Bristol NHS
Foundation Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust are the two major
Teaching Hospitals) many trainees chose to locate themselves in Bristol
or the immediate Bristol area. All the other Trusts (with the possible
exception of Yeovil) are easily commutable on a daily basis with the
excellent motorway network both North and South (M5) and East and
West (M4).

Confidential Career advice
Careers support

Whether this is to discuss issues around specialty choice, preparing for
interviews, or a complete career change, the process of careers
guidance aims to enable you to reach well informed and realistic
decisions about your career. It is an opportunity to focus on your needs
and concerns and to discuss these with an impartial, qualified and
experienced careers guidance practitioner. Careers guidance is not
about telling you what to do with your life or providing you with an
instant solution - it may be a process that requires more than one
session and you should be prepared to carry out some research
between careers guidance sessions.

Career management workshops and Windmills

These workshops are usually arranged in conjunction with Foundation
Programme Directors and are delivered at your place of work.
We have recently purchased the licence to deliver the Windmills for
Doctors careers management package. This will be offered across the
deanery footprint from 2009.
If there are specific career-related topics which trainees would like
covered in a workshop, they can be customised according to individual
need.
Careers advice is also available via e-mail.

MMC Recruitment timetables for 2009

Provisional Interview dates

Anasthetics 9th - 11th February
Acute Care Care Stem (ACCS) 9th -11th February
Ophthamology - 12th February
Radiology 17th-18th February
Trauma & Orthopeadics 23rd -25th February
Paediatrics 2nd-4th March
Obstetrics & Gynaecology 4th-5th March
Surgery 9th-12th March
Public Health 11th-12th March
Core Medical Training 16th-20th March
Psychiatry 23rd-27th March

MMC Recruitment responsibilities

Local
Anaesthetics
Acute Care Care Stem (ACCS)
Ophthalmology
Radiology
Trauma & Orthopeadics
Surgery
National
Public Health
Core Medical Training
Psychiatry
Paediatrics Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Recruitment procedures

Please see our website: www.severndeanery.nhs.uk

Key personnel

Leann King Recruitment and Selection Manager – Paediatrics, Public
Health and Ophthalmology
Caroline Stitfall - Recruitment and Selection Manager - Obstetrics and
Gynaecology and Psychiatric Specialties
Sue House - Recruitment and Selection Manager - Surgery, Radiology
and Pathology
Joanne Pickstone - Recruitment & Selection Manager – Medicine
Diane Lloyd Recruitment and Selection Manager - Emergency Medicine,
ACCS and Anaesthetics

More information

Please see our website at www.severndeanery.nhs.uk