Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Audiology – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK. Every year, LTHT provides healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber and beyond. The Trust plays an important role in the training and education. LTHT is rated as a good hospital Trust by the Care Quality Commission, and has a strategy to continue improving to provide outstanding care for patients. Care and clinical expertise is spread over four hospitals and medical facilities.
Cardiac Science – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Large, diverse and exciting hospital environment. Staff shuttle bus between Leeds General Infirmary and St James Hospital. Significant experience from clinical staff to support training available.
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield genetics laboratories work in a collaborative as the North East and Yorkshire Genomic Laboratory Hub (NEY GLH). Our NEY GLH sites are currently accredited as individual training centres and trainees will be employed by and based at their home Trust. Elements of training will be delivered across our sites and whilst much of this training has been successfully transferred to remote delivery it will be necessary for the trainee to spend time at our partner organisations during their period of training in order to receive a complete programme of education and development. This will be built into training plans which will be clearly developed and communicated with trainees and supported by the NEY GLH training group which is established across the hub. We are currently consolidating our wet laboratory testing activity into two of our sites (Leeds and Newcastle), due to be complete by March 2024. Scientific analysis and reporting activity will continue in Sheffield, which is our main centre for specialised rare disease service delivery.
Gastrointestinal Physiology – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest hospital trusts in the UK. We are committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our staff helped to define the values and behaviours that we should work to so that we can achieve this vision. This has become known as The Leeds Way, and forms the foundation of our culture, our ethos and how we work every day.
The Department of Gastrointestinal Physiology within Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is a busy healthcare scientist led clinical service providing an extensive range of investigations of both upper and lower gastrointestinal function. This includes all aspects of provision of the service from acquisition of patient data, using a range of specialist diagnostic systems, to clinical reporting.
The Department serves the needs of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and additionally provides a tertiary service to the surrounding communities of Calderdale, North and West Yorkshire. The team also delivers an adult urodynamic service including video urodynamics to the department of Urology at Leeds Teaching Hospital.
Clinical GI physiology activity is undertaken within the Endoscopy Department at Leeds General Infirmary. However, the service is based across the two main sites (Leeds General Infirmary and St James University Hospital) and at times you will be required to work across both.
Genomics – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield genetics laboratories work in a collaborative as the North East and Yorkshire Genomic Laboratory Hub (NEY GLH). Our NEY GLH sites are currently accredited as individual training centres and trainees will be employed by and based at their home Trust. Elements of training will be delivered across our sites and whilst much of this training has been successfully transferred to remote delivery it will be necessary for the trainee to spend time at our partner organisations during their period of training in order to receive a complete programme of education and development. This will be built into training plans which will be clearly developed and communicated with trainees and supported by the NEY GLH training group which is established across the hub. We are currently consolidating our wet laboratory testing activity into two of our sites (Leeds and Newcastle), due to be complete by March 2024. Scientific analysis and reporting activity will continue in Sheffield, which is our main centre for specialised rare disease service delivery.
Nuclear Medicine – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an established training centre having been training supernumerary trainees since 1992, and having STP trainees since the scheme started in 2011. The emphasis on being a large training centre means there are a number of alumni from Leeds working in the department and involved with the training of the new trainees. Trainees are reimbursed for travel and accommodation whilst at academic sites, often with these being booked by the secretarial staff to reduce the burden on trainees. There are shuttle buses between the hospitals in Leeds which are free for all employees to use helping to travel between the sites used for rotations. Trainees are normally based at St James University Hospital or Leeds General Infirmary. Due to the number of trainees we have, there is an active social group to engage with outside of your own specialism. RT and NM rotations are based at SJUH, DR&RP and INIR rotations are based at LGI.
Pharmaceutical Science – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Trainees will work at the following locations within Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust; Leeds General Infirmary, St. James’s University Hospital and the pharmacy manufacturing unit in Hunslet, Leeds. The length of time spent at each location may vary between trainees. The trainees will also spend time at a pharmacy manufacturing unit in Lindley, Huddersfield (Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust). There are good transport links to all locations. Candidates are responsible for organising their own travel arrangements to the different locations. Huddersfield is a commutable distance from Leeds and therefore it is not expected that overnight accommodation will be required. Hunslet to Lindley is approximately 30 minutes by car. This specialism is well established in Leeds; the Trust has hosted 14 trainees since 2014. Huddersfield Pharmacy Specials continue to support the production and QA/ QC rotations meaning that the trainees are uniquely positioned to gain experience in two different NHS licensed pharmacy manufacturing units. Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the country with one of the busiest pharmacy preparative services. Working for the Trust, the trainees will support the delivery of a diverse range of services. They will gain experience in the following facilities: MHRA licensed units for aseptic production and re-packaging / over-labelling (Leeds and Huddersfield); Hospital-based unlicensed aseptic dispensing units supporting Yorkshire Cancer Centre, Specialist Intestinal Failure Services and Leeds Children’s Hospital; Hospital-based unlicensed radiopharmacy unit – supporting Nuclear Medicine Quality Assurance and Quality Control – supporting all units listed above as well as other regional services.
Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an established training centre having been training supernumerary trainees since 1992, and having STP trainees since the scheme started in 2011. The emphasis on being a large training centre means there are a number of alumni from Leeds working in the department and involved with the training of the new trainees. Trainees are reimbursed for travel and accommodation whilst at academic sites, often with these being booked by the secretarial staff to reduce the burden on trainees. There are shuttle buses between the hospitals in Leeds which are free for all employees to use helping to travel between the sites used for rotations. Trainees are normally based at St James University Hospital or Leeds General Infirmary. Due to the number of trainees we have, there is an active social group to engage with outside of your own specialism. RT and NM rotations are based at SJUH, DR&RP and INIR rotations are based at LGI.
Radiotherapy Physics – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an established training centre having been training supernumerary trainees since 1992, and having STP trainees since the scheme started in 2011. The emphasis on being a large training centre means there are a number of alumni from Leeds working in the department and involved with the training of the new trainees. Trainees are reimbursed for travel and accommodation whilst at academic sites, often with these being booked by the secretarial staff to reduce the burden on trainees. There are shuttle buses between the hospitals in Leeds which are free for all employees to use helping to travel between the sites used for rotations. Trainees are normally based at St James University Hospital or Leeds General Infirmary. Due to the number of trainees we have, there is an active social group to engage with outside of your own specialism. RT and NM rotations are based at SJUH, DR&RP and INIR rotations are based at LGI.
Respiratory and Sleep Science – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Large, diverse and vibrant hospital setting. Staff shuttle bus connection between St James Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. Highly skilled respiratory and sleep workforce.