Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 36 months
- Hours
- Full time - 48 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-WPHSD-02
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £52,530 - £82,400 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
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Specialty Doctor in Anaesthesia (12 PAs)
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Job overview
We invite applications for a Specialty Doctor in Anaesthesia, this post is based at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals. The successful candidate will be responsible for provision of anaesthesia in theatres including pre-operative assessment, post operative analgesia and follow up when indicated. The duties also include provision of long day cover during weekdays (Bleep Holder Anaesthetist) at the Heatherwood hospital.
Description of Working Pattern
Job plan will be for 12 PAs with 11 DCC and 1 SPA. A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Deputy Chief of Service on behalf of the Chief of Service and Medical Director within three months of appointment. With Heatherwood hospital being an elective hub, there is great impetus on day case procedures.
The job plan will primarily involve provision of anaesthesia for daytime elective theatre lists for various specialities including orthopaedics. There is also a significant component of Preoperative Anaesthetic assessment activities. This involves providing advice, reviewing notes, and running a pre-assessment clinic seeing patients face-to-face, collaborating with the pre-assessment nurses and consultants/ doctors from other specialities, liaising with GPs when patients require further pre-operative treatment, and follow up investigations that were ordered.
This is a 3 year fixed term post.
Main duties of the job
Bleep Holder Anaesthetist Rota: The successful candidate will join the bleep holder anaesthetist rota based at the Heatherwood Hospital. The BHA shift commences at 10.00 hrs and finishes at 22.00 hrs when all patients have been discharged from PACU. The BHA is contactable over the bleep phone till 22.00. This rota is only for the weekday daytime. There is no service over the weekends, nights and bank holidays. They are also involved in preoperative assessment of patients, pain ward rounds and trouble shooting in PACU and DSU in addition to providing support to theatres. The role would also entail facilitating the flow in theatres, supporting emergencies in theatre and assist with transfer of patients to the acute site.
Weekend Commitments: As part of the job plan, the post holder will be involved in 1 in 6 weekend (Saturday or Sunday) daytime trauma lists or obstetric on call activities. Individual interests such as obstetrics can also be accommodated.
There is no night time work involved as part of this job plan.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the attached job description and person specification for further details about this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the GMC
- Post graduate qualification in Anaesthesia
- Experience of working in the UK and NHS
Desirable criteria
- Part 1 FRCA or equivalent
- ALS/APLS
- EDRA
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 5 years (or equivalent) postgraduate experience in anaesthesia
- Broad general experience in anaesthesia including preoperative assessment.
- Proficiency in regional anaesthesia and anaesthesia for joint arthroplasties
- Sufficient organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake the role of Specialty Doctor.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced training / special interest in pre assessment, regional anaesthesia
- Day case anaesthesia experience
- Trauma anaesthesia
- Experience in Obstetric Anaesthesia in the UK
- Knowledge of organisation of the NHS
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Dinesh Selvan
- Job title
- Deputy Chief of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006 153195
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