F2 Stand-alone

Published 05/02/2024:

This year we have approximately 240 posts available across the UK. Please note these figures are subject to change:

There has been a high volume of applications for the UKFPO Stand-alone F2 programme for 2024. Applicants are advised that interviews will only be offered to applicants who have achieved the very highest SJT scores.  

The UKFPO would also like to remind applicants: 

• Please refer to the UKFP 2024 Foundation School Geographical Distribution List for a list of the geographical areas that fall under the foundation schools listed above.
• Interviews will be held in April 2024 and successful applicants will be offered posts in May 2024. 

The details of specific programmes and posts available within each foundation school are not yet confirmed. These will be available to applicants on Oriel during the programme preferencing window (30 April –14 May 2024).

The application window for 2024 F2 Stand-alone programme recruitment will open on Tuesday 09 January 2024 and close on Tuesday 23 January 2024 (12:00 midday GMT). A link to the F2 Stand-alone 2024 vacancy on Oriel can be found below.

https://www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/PermaLink/Vacancy/220AAC80

Recruitment Timeline

• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Recruitment Timeline [.pdf, 128KB]

Applicant Guidance and Forms

• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Applicant Handbook [.pdf, 401KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – How to Apply Guidance [.pdf, 840KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Person Specification [.pdf, 154KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Consultant Testimony Proforma [.docx, 55.4KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Reapplication to Foundation Training [.docx, 59.5KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Longlist Outcome Guide [.pdf, 194KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Disability Confident Scheme – coming soon
  

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

• F2 Stand-alone SJT Practice Scenarios
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Situational Judgement Test (SJT) Guidance [.pdf, 316KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Extenuating Circumstances Policy [.pdf, 124 KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Extenuating Circumstances Claim Form [.docx, 67.1 KB]
• F2 Stand-alone 2024 – Understanding your SJT score [.pdf 188KB]

Other guidance

• PSA Guidance for F2 Stand-alone doctors

The details of specific programmes and posts available within each foundation school are not yet confirmed. These will be available to applicants on Oriel during the programme preferencing window (30 April –14 May 2024).

Frequently Asked Questions can be found on the Stand-alone Application FAQs page and Stand-alone Eligibility FAQs page.

In Foundation Year 2 (F2) doctors remain under clinical supervision (as do all doctors in training) but take on increasing responsibility for patient care. In particular, they begin to make management decisions as part of their progress towards independent practice. F2 doctors further develop their core generic skills and contribute more to the education and training of the wider healthcare workforce, for example nurses, medical students and less experienced doctors. At the end of F2, they will have begun to demonstrate clinical effectiveness, leadership and the decision-making responsibilities that are essential for hospital and general practice speciality training.

Satisfactory completion of F2 will lead to the award of a Foundation Programme Certificate of Completion (FPCC), which indicates that the foundation doctor is ready to enter a core, specialty or general practice training programme.

See the key documents for the current recruitment year at the top of this page.

*Applicants who are currently working as part of the two-year programme or have successfully completed the F2 year and received a Foundation Achievement of Competency Document (FACD)/Foundation Programme Certificate of Completion (FPCC) are not eligible to apply for F2 Stand-alone posts.