Description
We are seeking a Locum Consultant Anaesthetist to join our team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will have significant involvement in the delivery of anaesthesia for all theatres during daytime cover and as part of the consultant rota, including trauma weekends.
The postholder will contribute to the development and delivery of aspects of these services depending on their interests and experience. The remit of the post holder will be to work flexibly within the multi-disciplinary team, providing and further developing care for patients requiring anaesthesia.
The postholder will also be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Anaesthetic Department, with a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
Main duties of the job
- Provide a high-quality care service to patients, including all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties
- Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis
- Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners
- Carry out teaching, examination, and accreditation duties as required
- Contribute to the Care Groups research interests, audit programmes, and Clinical Governance programmes
- Take an active role in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of the Care Groups Business Plan
Person Specification
- Full Registration with GMC
- Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
- Registerable medical qualification
- FRCA
- Wide experience in all aspects of Anaesthesia
- Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit
- Experience of clinical research
- Effective communicator, able to work in a close-knit team and co-operate with all medical and paramedical staff