Main area: Anaesthesia
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent: Substantive
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 Hours Per Week)
Job ref: 213-MED-DH-6596482
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Denmark Hill
Town: London
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Including London Zone Allowance
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/09/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,500 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
Department of Anaesthesia
Substantive Consultant Anaesthetist
Full-time 10 PAs
The post will be based mainly at the Denmark Hill site but may be required to work flexibly across the KCH sites (DH, PRUH, QMS & Orpington). There will be an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care with the remainder being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities worked over an average of 3.5 days (this might include covering the transplant on call with a 1:8 frequency which attracts a 5% uplift).
You must be fully registered with the GMC and hold a Licence to Practice and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent to be eligible for interview.
Main duties of the job
These are replacement Consultant posts. The post holders will have broad interests including anaesthesia for adults undergoing high-risk surgery, in addition experience in regional, vascular and/or trauma management is desirable. The postholder will have significant involvement in the delivery of emergency anaesthesia both during daytime cover and as part of the general consultant on-call rota. The department covers most anaesthesia specialities, and a dynamic individual with supplementary interests would be welcomed.
It is envisaged that the appointees will contribute to the development and delivery of aspects of these services depending upon their interests and experience.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Together with the other Consultants to provide a service for Anaesthesia. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the department.
- Provide clinical supervision of junior medical staff as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
- Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
- Contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
- Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, clinical governance programs and learning from Deaths.
- Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the department’s/Division’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.
- Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for anaesthesia services.
- Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
- Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.
- Undertake Divisional management duties as agreed with the Divisional/departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
- Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention and control.
- Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.
- Be accountable for implementation of the Code of Practice within own department/area of responsibility.
Person specification
Qualifications
- FRCA or equivalent
- Masters degree or equivalent.
- Additional qualifications/diplomas in specialist areas for example, Perioperative Medicine, Trauma Sciences or Regional Anaesthesia
Registration
- Full Registration with GMC and completed subspecialty training programme in anaesthesia
- Eligible to apply for a Substantive Consultant post – CCT or within 6 months of completion
Training and Experience
- Wide experience in delivery of anaesthesia for general, major/high risk surgery and trauma/cepod surgery
- Award of CCT or equivalent.
- Experience of delivering anaesthesia independently and supervising junior colleagues within that capacity.
- Major trauma management experience
- Experience in high-risk obstetrics
- Pre-assessment and perioperative medicine experience
- Additional training/fellowship in a specialist area
Administration
- Experience in day to day organisation of anaesthetic services in a busy Teaching Hospital
- Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Management and Leadership
- Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
- Management course and/or qualification
Audit
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects and QIPs
- Management course and/or qualification
Research and Publications
- Experience of clinical research
- Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of anaesthesia
- Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
Teaching
- Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.
- Teaching qualification
- Experience of Teaching PROMPT
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