Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Anaesthesia
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 196-CON957
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Evelina Childrens Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 exc. L/Z
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Main duties of the job
The Evelina London Children's Hospital opened on 31st October 2005 and is currently part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Our vision is to be a world leading centre of life-changing care for children, young people and their families. In 2016 The Evelina London Children’s Hospital achieved an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) with Children’s Community Services rated ‘Good’. We are the second largest provider of children's services in London. Our neonatal unit cares for around 900 babies a year, and has some of the best survival rates in the UK. We provide around one in five of the UK’s kidney transplants in children. In 2023 we are opening two new operating theatres within a Children’s Day Surgery Centre to help us reduce waiting times for surgery.
The Paediatric Anaesthetic Group provides over 11000 anaesthetics a year. Just less than half are under the age of five and 200 are neonates. There is a large cardiac surgery service including cardiac MRI and cath lab. Other services include general surgery, cleft and plastics, nephro-urology, including renal transplantation, ENT (including specialist airway surgery), orthopaedic/spinal, ophthalmic, diagnostics and dental surgery. Anaesthetic Services include a Pre-assessment Clinic and an Acute Pain Service.
Working for our organisation
The Department of Anaesthesia is seeking full-time (10 PA) Consultants with a special interest in Paediatric Anaesthesia to join our dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team of Paediatric Anaesthetists.
The Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia covers all surgical specialities except neuro surgery and liver transplantation. The department has a special interest in teaching & training, regional anaesthesia, patient optimisation, enhanced recovery & difficult airway skills. We have an active role in the Trust’s new high fidelity simulation centre. Our anaesthetic sites are equipped with Dräger Primus or Fabius (MRI) anaesthetic machines, Phillips monitors & GE and Sonosite ultrasound for nerve blocks. There is close liaison with the PICU.
You must be fully registered with the GMC, hold a License to Practice and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.
The post holder will have regular contact with children and therefore this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is an excellent opportunity to join a first-class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment, with on-site links to fetal and neonatal medicine and adult services. Watch our short film which gives you an insight into the comprehensive services we offer before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life and the amazing working environment we have here at Evelina.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift patter so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract. All new employment contracts include weekend working; which at present means one elective Saturday or Sunday list every 12 weeks.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise.
- On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT.
Desirable criteria
- Higher Qualification recognised by the University of London.
- Academic distinction or Prizes.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive training and clinical experience in anaesthesia equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Anaesthesia.
- At least 1 year of comprehensive training and clinical experience in Paediatric and Neonatal Anaesthesia
Desirable criteria
- Post CCT experience
- Overseas experience in an international centre of excellence
- Evidence of CPD in relevant sub-specialist areas e.g. pre-operative assessment
- Experience in anaesthesia for non-cardiac surgery on children with co-incidental congenital cardiac disease
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of APLS or equivalent in the past 3 years
- Ability to organise and independently manage the safe conduct of operating lists.
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
Audit Management & IT
Essential criteria
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management.
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of effective leadership.
- Experience in clinical guideline development
- Appraisal training
- Management training or qualification
- Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services
Research. Teaching skill & experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research.
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
- Presenting and teaching preferably beyond immediate place of work
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of original research.
- Publications in peer reviewed literature.
- Teaching qualification.
- Collaboration in National Research Projects
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 Davina Wong
- Job title
- Head of Service for Paediatric Anaesthesia.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Dr Davina Wong, Head of Service for Paediatric Anaesthesia. [email protected]
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