Senior Trust Grade in Anaesthesia

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical duties will include those normally expected of an Anaesthetic ST6+. During the daytime, this will involve theatre work; out of hours, duties will include 2nd on rota sessions at city or QMC.

Consultant cover is provided at all times, being non-resident overnight. At QMC, Consultant Anaesthetists are resident throughout all daytime and twilight sessions, 7 days a week, supporting the emergency workload.

The successful candidates will be responsible to a named Consultant within the senior management team, and have a named Educational Supervisor. They will be required to:
• Participate in the delivery of a high quality 24-hour service including participation in the resident Out of Hours rota, covering a mixture of Anaesthetics, EPOC, Critical Care, and Obstetric Anaesthesia. Daytime sessions will be within Anaesthetics
• Provide internal cover for colleagues on leave, which is included in the current banding allocation of this post. In exceptional circumstances and for short periods only, Clinical Fellows may be requested to provide additional cover, for example, to cover sickness. Locums may also be employed in this instance. The rota is EWTD compliant with appropriate level of banding for anti-social hours
• Work flexibly, maintain a logbook and portfolio, engage with supervision, undergo medical appraisal and to develop a learning plan/PDP
• Comply with management arrangements in place, to follow the guidelines on practice laid down by the General Medical Council's "Maintaining Good Medical Practice", and to be accountable to the Trust for their actions and the quality of their work
• Comply with Trust Health and Safety policies, fulfil mandatory training requirements and maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors and staff
• Have knowledge of and employ the basic principles of infection control practice
• Maintain effective working relationships with anaesthetic, nursing, operating department, critical care, midwifery, and surgical colleagues

Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Full GMC registration and Licence to Practice
• Full Final FRCA or other Test of Knowledge accepted by the RCoA
• ALS provider

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant and recent experience of anaesthetic practice in the UK
• A minimum of 5 years anaesthetics experience

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