Consultant In Anaesthesia 10 PAs

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Consultant in Anaesthesia 10 PAs

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

We seek a dynamic individual with a broad range of specialist skills in general adult and obstetric anaesthesia to join our team as a substantive appointment

The successful candidate would provide specialist peri-operative care including pre-operative assessment, intra-operative anaesthetic management and post-operative care to patients undergoing a wide range of operative procedures at the RVI and may also be asked to undertake sessions at the Day Treatment Centre (DTC), based at the Freeman Hospital

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

To provide anaesthesia, peri-operative management and pre-operative assessment services to elective and emergency patients on the RVI site and, potentially, on occasion, at the Day Treatment Centre (DTC) on the Freeman site.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact one of the Clinical Directors: Dr Ian Clement on 0191282 9813 - Ian.Clement@nhs.net or Dr Barry Paul on 0191 282 9833 - Barry.Paul@nhs.net Alternatively please contact Dr Sarah Metcalfe, Lead for Adult Anaesthesia on 0191 282 9817, or via email Sarah.Metcalfe@nhs.net and Dr Danny Morland, Lead for Obstetric Anaesthesia on 0191 282 3796, or via e-mail Danny.Morland@nhs.net

Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Clinical:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Clinical duties will encompass elective and emergency adult theatre anaesthesia along with in obstetric anaesthesia.
• Commitments in obstetric anaesthesia would include providing obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia on the tertiary level obstetric unit in addition to delivering a resident consultant evening session on Delivery Suite combined with the overnight on call (currently 1:8 – 1:10 rota). Weekly daytime sessions would be job-planned to support on-call provision (2-4/fortnight) but flexible working is essential, especially when unpredictable absences occur.
• The exact make-up of the job-planned week is open for negotiation and will involve service delivery within the surgical services identified below.
• The successful applicant may be required to deliver some elective theatre work during planned evening sessions as part of their regular job plan.
• The Surgical Directorate delivers a major upper and lower GI service, endocrine surgery and breast surgery; Neurosciences provide a regional service for neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology; Plastic Surgery provides major reconstructive surgery, including head and neck, breast and lower limb, a regional burns service and a regional hand trauma service; Orthopaedics provide a trauma service, upper limb orthopaedics and a major spinal surgery service; Gynaecology run a gynae-oncology, uro-gynaecology and fertility service; there are also opportunities in maxillo-facial surgery, ophthalmology and oculoplastics and dental anaesthesia.
• The RVI is a Major Trauma Centre – there are opportunities for management of both the immediate presentations of major trauma and subsequent interactions with the peri-operative and pain service.
• We would welcome applications from candidates with clinical expertise in all other areas of our department including Critical Care medicine. Should a candidate with a CCT in ICM apply, we would welcome this and provide flexibility to allow delivery of daytime Critical Care. We would anticipate on call commitments however to be on the obstetric anaesthesia rota rather than ICM.
  
  

Administrative:

• To participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary quality improvement and risk management activities in Peri-operative and Critical Care. The aims of QI will include;
• Ensuring compliance with national guidelines relating to Anaesthesia
• Helping to create an environment of continuously seeking to improve the quality of care
• These activities will all be carried out in a multidisciplinary manner. Clinical governance, clinical effectiveness and audit meetings occur on six mornings and six afternoons every year. All members of the Directorate are expected to attend and contribute. These meetings are also utilised to deliver Trust mandatory training.
• The five departments within the Directorate, Adult Anaesthesia, Adult Critical Care, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Obstetric Anaesthesia and Pain Management function managerially as a single department. You will be expected to undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of your patients and in relation to the running of the Department of Anaesthesia in co-operation with the Heads of Department, Specialty Manager and Clinical Director. You will be entitled to become a member of the Medical Staff Committee of the hospital.
• Obstetric Anaesthetists are required to contribute towards Maternity Service’s Clinical Governance structures including representation at monthly meetings, guideline drafting, incident investigation and risk management and service development.
• To undertake anaesthesia administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives
• Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and pursue Trust objectives and your own personal development programme. This will be reviewed at annual appraisal and job planning. The Trust has a mentoring scheme, which new consultants are encouraged to use.
• There are close links with the other two Directorates within the Trust at Freeman Hospital - Peri-operative Services and Anaesthesia services within the Cardiothoracic Directorate. There is a collaborative approach to workforce planning, Clinical Governance and risk management, therapeutics, equipment and education.
  
  

Research:

• The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high-profile activity that complements the service provided. The emphasis is on studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio.
• The Peri-operative and Critical Care Directorate have recently gained the accolade of becoming an Academic Clinical Directorate within NUTH with the associated access to research funding. There is ongoing CLRN activity within the Directorate and several active awards for Greenshoot and Research Capability funding within the consultant body.
  
  

Teaching:

• The Directorate places considerable emphasis on under-graduate and post-graduate education and has a remarkable success rate at RCoA examinations. You will be expected to make an active contribution to under-graduate and post-graduate teaching of Anaesthesia.
• The Directorate wishes to play a key role in the regional development of training the next generation of anaesthetists.
• Under-graduate education is provided to medical students from Newcastle University.
• The Directorate also educates nursing staff, operating departmental personnel, professions allied to medicine, paramedic ambulance personnel and armed forces personnel.
• The Northern School of Anaesthesia provides the hub for post-graduate anaesthetic education with teaching opportunities available to all Consultants.
• All Consultants are expected to be actively involved in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate residents in the Directorate. Some will have specific responsibility for a small number of individuals as educational supervisor under the direction of the RCoA College Tutor.
• Multidisciplinary teaching, learning and simulation is a key component of safety culture on Delivery Suite with consultant obstetric anaesthetists as leaders.
  
  

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Person specification

Education, Qualifications And Specialist Skills

Essential criteria

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC Registration
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• FRCA or equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Other relevant undergraduate or postgraduate scientific or medical qualification
  
  

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience in all aspects of general adult anaesthesia
• Extensive experience in caring for major surgical patients including emergency and major trauma cases
• Ability to manage on call demands and workload, providing leadership within an on-call team in a major, acute hospital with multiple concurrent workstreams, triaging appropriately and working with surgical colleagues
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experienced obstetric anaesthetist, including higher obs training (RCOA SIA or equivalent) or experience at consultant obstetric anaesthetist level.
• Experience of management of acutely sick maternity patients
• Experience in upper/lower GI surgery
• Experience in neuroanaesthesia
  
  

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
• An understanding of Clinical Governance. Evidence of having implemented change
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of delivering projects within multi-agency teams
• Evidence of having implemented change
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
  
  

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate qualification in medical education
• Evidence of broad education interest and skill set going beyond intra-departmental teaching
• Development of teaching programs
• Multidisciplinary teaching and simulation in the obstetric environment
  
  

Research

Essential criteria

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Publications in the last five years
  
  

Quality Improvement

Essential criteria

• Evidence of participation in QI or audit
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
• Presentation of QI work at regional or national level
  
  

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

• Alignment with the Trust’s values.
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
• A commitment to personal / unit CPD
• Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
  
  

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Updated Job Pack to follow (PDF, 26.5KB)
• Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
• Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)
  
  

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Louise Scorfield Job title HR Advisor Email address Louise.Scorfiel@nhs.net

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