Description
The Trust seeks to appoint a Consultant Anaesthetist. This is a whole-time position, and the new appointee will share the caseload, facilities, and trainee grade support with the existing consultants.
The post is a whole-time post of 10 PA's and offers 8.5 programmed activities (PAs), and 1.5 SPA.
The successful candidate will be expected to provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia, and follow-up. They will be expected to introduce and apply new techniques as appropriate and to take a share of the general work of the department, including cover for consultant colleagues where practical.
The Department of Anaesthesia is committed to continuing its teaching role and considerable importance is attached to the support of the junior medical staff in the Department.
The appointment is to the Trust, not to specific hospitals. The appointee will take their share of clinical responsibilities within the Department of anaesthesia. This will include provision for clinics in the pre-operative assessment department. In addition to any duties within a subspeciality of interest, the appointee will be required to provide anaesthesia for adult and child patients in all specialties as appropriate to their training and experience.
There is a need to develop a team with a strong emphasis on delivering a cross-site service. Post-holders will be required to work on each site.
Consultants will agree to a job plan, which is reviewed annually.
The Trust operates from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. They have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. They're campaigning to secure the £35m they need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
The majority of their 8,400 staff live in the three diverse London boroughs they serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on their Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia, and follow-up
- Introduce and apply new techniques as appropriate
- Take a share of the general work of the department, including cover for consultant colleagues where practical
- Participate in clinics in the pre-operative assessment department
- Provide anaesthesia for adult and child patients in all specialties as appropriate to their training and experience
Requirements:
- MBBS or equivalent
- Holder of Certificate of completion of training (CCT) or Equivalent or within six months of award of CCT by date of interview
- Fully GMC registered with a licence to practice
Desirable:
- SIA/fellowship or equivalent in a subspecialist area such as paediatrics, regional, acute pain or perioperative medicine
- Experience in pre-operative assessment with clinical pathway development and coordination of perioperative care
- NHS experience at an acute hospital within an inner-city location