Job overview
Barts Health NHS Trust
Trust Doctor (ST7+) in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care
We are recruiting Trust Doctors in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Cardiothoracic Critical Care. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the UK’s premier cardiac centre - Barts Heart Centre. The Barts Heart Centre (BHC) is a new venture formed by the merging of cardiothoracic services from the London Chest Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Heart Hospital. This has created the UK’s largest cardiothoracic centre with nearly all specialist cardiac services for North Central and North East London and beyond, as well as highly specialised national services, brought together in the newly built hospital on the St Bartholomew’s site. Barts Heart Centre has 10 operating theatres, 10 catheter labs and over 250 cardiac, vascular and thoracic beds, creating one of Europe’s largest Cardiothoracic Centres. The new hospital contains 58 critical care beds. 2 ICUs and 1 HDU comprising 42 beds form the surgical cardiothoracic surgical critical care unit, adjacent to theatres. A fourth ICU of 16 beds on the 6th floor provides dedicated General ICU, admitting complex cardiac patients, together with cardiology and respiratory patients in addition to patients suffering from haematological disease. Patients in critical care are cared for with all types of organ support including extracorporeal respiratory and cardiovascular support (ECMO).
Main duties of the job
These posts offer experience at stage 3 or post CCT (Higher and Advanced) training in all aspects
of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, anaesthesia for structural and interventional cardiology
procedures, critical care, adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), surgery for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
and thoracic aortic surgery. Experience gained will include Transoesophageal
Echocardiography (TOE) and that of innovative procedures such as Trans-catheter Assisted
Valvular Implantation (TAVI) and novel Cardiac Electrophysiology procedures.
The post holder will also be expected to work across all three Critical Care Units (including the
General Intensive Care Unit), Cardiothoracic Theatres and the Cardiology Laboratories and will
have on-site responsibility for the more junior medical staff.
We have specialist leads for transoesophageal echo, acute pain, critical care and teaching and
training. The department has close ties to the Royal London for trauma and general anaesthetics
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Audit Day, Morbidity and Mortality Meetings and Teaching held 10 times per year
Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings with Surgeons and Cardiologists.
There is weekly teaching and a journal club programme in which trainees actively participate, chaired by a consultant
Weekly consultant led echo teaching
Advanced teaching in cardiothoracic anaesthesia is provided by the Cardiac
Anaesthesia Partnership (CAP)
Person specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
1. MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
2. FRCA or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
3. Evidence of excellence in training (e.g. medical school projects & prizes, post-graduate qualifications)
4. FFICM or other qualification in Intensive Care Medicine
Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
5. Eligible for full registration and licensing with the GMC at time of appointment
Previous experience
Essential criteria
6. Previous experience in cardiothoracic anaesthesia (minimum 6 months) and Intensive Care Medicine (minimum 6 months)
7. Completion of stage 3 Anaesthesia training or equivalent
8. Ability to provide a complete employment history with no unexplained career gaps
9. Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
10. Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with totality of period of training
Desirable criteria
11. Demonstrable research experience
12. Demonstrable teaching experience
13. Demonstrable audit experience
14. Ability to act in supervisory role overseeing junior anaesthetic and non-anaesthetic medical stafff on ICU
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
15. Valid certification in -ALS
Desirable criteria
16. Other resus courses (ATLS,APLS etc)
17. Experience in echocardiography (transthoracic or transoesophageal)
Communication
Essential criteria
18. Good standard of written and spoken language to facilitate communication with patients, healthcare professionals and other staff