General Enquiries
If you have any general enquiries about anything related to the Severn Postgraduate School of Surgery or anything on the website please contact Chad Elliott. We are also interested to here about any suggestions you may have for the websites improvement. Any query will be treated with the utmost importance and a response will be sent at the soonest possible time.
For specialty specific enquiries please contact the Specialty Manager Susan House.
Susan House is responsible for all aspects of recruitment and training of (core and specialty) doctors within the Severn Deanery in (all Surgical Specialties). Please contact Susan House regarding any recruitment and training queries including:
- Recruitment to substantive core and specialty training posts in (all Surgical specialties) within the Severn Deanery
- requests for out of programme experience (OOP)
- inter-deanery transfer requests (in or out)
- flexible training
- maternity leave
- extended sick leave
- future and existing placements on the rotation
- entering or completing of LAT posts
- general entering and completing of the training programme (including requests for completion of completion of CCT form)
- changes to CCT date
- general enquiries concerning ARCP/RITA assessments*
*Please note that the invitation to your annual ARCP/RITA; including the related documentation required to be presented at your annual ARCP/RITA and forwarding of your post ARCP/RITA documents, will be dealt with by Chad Elliott/Susan House.
Practical and Financial Support for Doctors on Sick Leave
Practical and Financial Support for Doctors on Sick Leave
How to Obtain Your CCT
The Royal College of Surgeons, JCST will contact you at the appropriate time regarding your application for CCT and provide you with all the forms you need, and information on what you need to do.
- The CCT application pack and full instructions will be sent to trainees 5 months before the CCT date by the JCST.
- Programme Directors need to submit a final report on the trainee to the college.
- The Final RITA G or ARCP 6 needs to have taken place.
- CCT Forms cannot be signed off by the Deanery until the RITA G or final ARCP 6 has taken place as this document also needs to be attached to the CCT application form.
- Trainee to send CCT form to the Specialty Manager at the Deanery with responsibility for the programme. The Specialty Manager will check all the data on the form is correct and take it to the Postgraduate Dean to sign. Trainees in General Surgery, Plastics or Urology the CCT forms to go to Peninsula Deanery. All other specialities the forms should come to Severn Deanery.
- On obtaining the Postgraduate Dean’s signature the Specialty Manager will either return the form to the trainee, or send directly to the college. (Trainee to specify what action they wish to be taken).
A copy of the full CCT Process information sheet is available from the college website. http://www.jcst.org/jcst/publications/cctcsdinfo/cct_html
Resigning from Your Post
If you are resigning from you post you should:
- A formal letter of resignation should be submitted to the Medical Staffing Department of your employing trust with the trainees Training Programme Director, Assigned Educational Supervisor and Susan House, Specialty Manager at the Deanery, copied in – this letter must state the trainees formal contract end date, where you have obtained a post, and the job title.
- Trainees must ensure all measures are taken to minimise the impact upon service provision and must meet the minimum notice period requirements of their trust contract
