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Job summary

Main area
Anaesthesia
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 1 year
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (On Call of 1 in 12)
Job ref
292-6435842-SCC
Employer
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust
Town
Harlow
Salary
Dependent on experience
Closing
12/07/2024 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Anaesthetics

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. 

Our values

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts. 

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.


 

Job overview

The Trust seeks to appoint a Consultant Anaesthetist. This is a fixed term, 1-year consultant post.

The new appointee will share the case-load, facilities and trainee grade support with the existing consultants.

In conjunction with the existing consultants, the appointee will lead developments in anaesthetic services in particular trauma anaesthesia within the Trust.

This post will be based at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow and will be responsible for providing high quality, responsive Anaesthetic service/Peri operative care to The Princess Alexandra Hospital assuming responsibility for the patients within the catchment area in co-operation with Consultant colleagues in Anaesthetics and other clinical departments. The post requires to support the acute pain relief service in the Trust.

Main duties of the job

This Locum post will be based at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow and will be responsible for providing high quality, Anaesthesia services to The Princess Alexandra Hospital that assumes responsibility for the patients within the catchment area in co-operation with Consultant colleagues in Anaesthetics and other clinical departments. The post requires to support the acute pain relief service in the Trust. 

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at anytime  

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full registration with the GMC with licence to practise
  • FRCA or equivalent/ CCT (or equivalent) with entry on Specialist Register for Anaesthesia
Desirable criteria
  • A higher degree or equivalent e.g. MD, PhD
  • MSc/Diploma/PG certification in Peri operative medicine or equivalent Management/leadership qualification

Generic

Essential criteria
  • Meets essential criteria
Desirable criteria
  • Meets desirable criteria

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hannah Milne
Job title
Anaesthetic and Critical Care Operational Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Please Contact Karen Goodchild on 01279 827011 or email [email protected] Staffing Administrator to arrange an informal visit or for more information.

Dr R Sethuraman - Clinical Lead on [email protected]

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