Job overview
The Trust seeks to appoint a Locum 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.
We are looking for highly skilled locum anaesthetic consultant to cover maternity leave, who wants to join our forward-thinking team and make a real difference in the NHS. We offer a supportive and stimulating environment where you can develop your skills and career.
The post is whole time post of 10 PA’s and offers 9 programmed activities (PAs), and 1 SPA.
You will be expected to provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia, and follow-up. He/she 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.
Main duties of the job
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. It is essential that the applicants be committed to his or her own continuing medical education and professional development.
The appointment is to the Trust, not to specific hospitals. The appointee will take his/her share of clinical responsibilities within the Department of anaesthesia. This will include provision for peri-operative assessment. In addition to duties within subspeciality, the appointee will be required to provide anaesthesia for adult patients in all specialties as appropriate to his/her training and experience.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Essential Professional Qualifications
Desirable criteria
1. NHS experience at an acute hospital within an inner-city location.
Knowledge and Skills
Desirable criteria
2. Experience in pre-operative assessment with clinical pathway development and coordination of perioperative care.
3. Experience in provision of anaesthesia for elective and emergency surgery in neuroanaesthesia, neuroradiology and mechanical thrombectomy.
4. Familiarity with, or experience in, digital prescribing, electronic patient records and a paperless operating theatre environment.
5. SIA/fellowship or equivalent in a subspecialist area such as paediatrics, regional, acute pain or perioperative medicine.
Management and Administrative Experience
Desirable criteria
6. Attendance on formal management training course.
7. Experience in rota design and leadership.
8. Experience in service improvement for elective recovery and day surgery practice.
9. Experience in development of perioperative pathways.
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.