Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 275-0325SDA
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 Per Annum/Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in Anaesthetics
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Job overview
Specialty Doctor in Anaesthetics
Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics
Grade: Speciality Doctor
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 Per Annum/ Pro Rata
Contract Type: Permanent
We are pleased to invite applications for a Specialty Doctor in Anaesthetics who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. We are inspiring and ambitious, respectful and supportive, open and we speak up, we are inclusive and responsible.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Medway NHS Foundation Trust is the largest acute trust and district general hospital in Kent. We have a proud history, originating in 1905 when a Royal Naval Hospital was opened on the site. Just over a century later, Medway NHS Foundation Trust was the first hospital in Kent to achieve Foundation Trust status. We continue to expand and modernise the array of services on offer to the people of the Medway towns, Swale and the wider West Kent region.
Medway is an Associated University Hospital with strong links to the Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical Schools and the new Kent and Medway Medical School.
The critical care programme currently consists of a 14 bedded intensive care unit (ICU) and a 10 bedded mixed medical and surgical high dependency unit (HDU). The critical care programme is part of the Perioperative, Anaesthetics and Critical Care Directorate and provides critical care support to the entire hospital, including a 24/7 outreach team (Acute Response Team: ART) and a post-critical care follow-up clinic.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This will be a 12 PA job with an allowance of 1 PA for Supporting Professional Activity. The average total number of hours each week is 48 hours. There is a flexible rota including periods covering 2nd On Call, Obstetrics and theatre lists.
The post holder will provide anaesthetics services to main theatres, day case theatres critical care and obstetrics. Separate 3, 6 or 12 month rotations to the Critical Care units (ICU and/or HDU) may occur depending on service needs.
· The post holder will have delegated responsibility for all the patients under care of the Consultants. He/she will refer to the Consultants when problems arise which are beyond his authority and/or experience.
· The post holder must maintain liaison with colleagues who are on duty immediately before and after.
· The post holder will participate in the duty rota with other middle and junior grade medical staff in the Department.
· The post holder will be required to actively participate in clinical audit and implement its results and relate these to the Trust and Directorate policies on Clinical Governance.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBChB (or equivalent)
- Full GMC Registration with a Licence to Practice.
Desirable criteria
- Primary or Final FRCA (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Shall have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training, at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty, or have equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience is various areas of Anaesthetic practise including Obstetric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Familiar with day to day organisation of Anaesthetic services in a busy DGH Anaesthetic department.
- Some understanding of principles of medical audit. Knowledge of national audit projects applicable to Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care
- Understands principles of clinical governance and how to apply these.
Desirable criteria
- Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Chee-Fone Chu
- Job title
- Clinical Director Anaesthetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
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