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Locum Consultant Anaesthetics
Grade
Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (plus on call)
Job ref
159-LWH-219-24
Employer
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Liverpool Women's Hospital Trust
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per Annum (dependant on experience)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/07/2024 23:59

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Locum Consultant Anaesthetist

Locum Consultant

Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. Each year we deliver over 8,300 babies, carry out over 10,000 gynaecological procedures, and care for over 1,000 poorly and preterm newborns, making us the specialist provider of health services for women, babies and their families in Europe.

We have some of the leading experts in their field, and, after featuring on One Born Every Minute, Miracle Babies and Special Baby Unit, our teams are famous across the world for their professionalism, skill and compassion.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital clinical services are currently being reviewed by NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, following work done by our clinicians in presenting a powerful case for change in the Future Generations Strategy.

A useful information booklet is available about the proposed changes which can be downloaded from the Healthy Liverpool website facebook.com/healthylvpool. This booklet clearly states that ‘there is absolutely no threat to the services themselves – this is about making what we have even better and protecting services for the future’.

Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.

We invite you to review why Liverpool Women's Hospital is a great place to work:  https://vimeo.com/556197652 

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Job overview

This post is to provide, develop and expand services including High Dependency Care, Maternal Critical Care, and Gynaecology including Reproductive Medicine, Gynecological Oncology & Robotic Surgeries and Obstetrics provided at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Main duties of the job

A core component of this post is a clinical commitment to the Trust’s Main Delivery Suite and is intended to provide the appointee with the opportunity of continuing and expanding the obstetric anaesthetic services already established at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital. The work on delivery suite encompasses elective and emergency obstetric anesthesia in supporting the busy unit.

It is envisaged that twilight sessions may become necessary in the future and this will be under review.

Close teamwork with anaesthetic, obstetric and midwifery colleagues are essential, as this is a tertiary referral center for complicated obstetric problems. Taking part and developing the high dependency care along with routine obstetric anaesthesia and analgesic tasks is a pleasant and challenging field to teach trainees and develop research active in the department and Trust.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and families. Each year we deliver over 7,500 babies, carry out over 49,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly & preterm newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles and have over 4,000 genetic appointments taking place. We believe that this along with a strong dedication to research & innovation makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

We have some of the leading experts in their field, which has been showcased on national TV and news, making our teams famous across the world for professionalism, skill & compassion.

The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it’s services to provide the most cutting edge and modern care possible. As well as developing services on our current site we have long-term aspirations for the future. We have recently launched a number of new strategies which provide a detailed long-term plan for our services.

Check out why Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is a great place to work using the links below:

Video: https://vimeo.com/556197652

Online brochure: https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4121/recruitment-pack-great-place-to-work-16pp-v4-final.pdf

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There is a whole day (2 sessions) Gynaecology Oncology list working in a busy and vital area of Gynaecology. Patients of wide age range and fitness require surgical assistance and anaesthetic cares. 

Commitment includes a further 2 sessions made up of theatre lists or Preoperative assessment clinic in Gynaecological Surgery at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

The department expects and promotes good teaching and training for junior anaesthetic staff and the successful appointees will contribute in this area along with providing training for other groups of staff within the Trust.

The on-call commitment will be shared with Consultant Colleagues at LWH, and will be equivalent to 1:12 and attract an availability supplement of 3%.

Supporting professional activity time (SPA) is offered initially as 1.5 PA (6hrs) (I PA on site and 0.5 PA flexible)  for purposes of, among others,  continuing professional development, enhanced appraisal and revalidation, with further SPAs granted after agreement of a job plan with the Clinical Director and Medical Director.

Person specification

Skills, Knowledge and Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Able to work within the existing directorate framework and compatibility with all existing consultant staff
  • Committed to specialty and enthusiastic about the role of anaesthetists
  • Commitment to team working Good communication and interpersonal skills Good organisational skills Leadership qualities Excellent written and spoken English Ability to cope under pressure Enthusiastic and motivated
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of supervising anaesthetic trainees
  • Experience of teaching non-medical professionals
  • Evidence of: Caring and responsible attitude to colleagues

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MBChB or equivalent FRCA or equivalent Full GMC registration CCT (or equivalent) with entry on Specialist Register for anaesthesia or within six months of anticipated CCT date on the date of interview
  • Minimum of 7 years’ experience in anaesthesia
  • Minimum of 1 year worked within the NHS
Desirable criteria
  • Additional postgraduate training (MRCP, MD etc)
  • Post-Graduate prizes

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Smooth progression through training consistent with personal circumstances
  • Higher level training in obstetric anaesthesia with recent, wide knowledge and experience of high risk obstetric anaesthesia
  • Higher training in general, urological and gynaecological surgery
  • Higher training in day case anaesthesia
  • Minimum of 6 months training in intensive care at ST level
  • ALS
Desirable criteria
  • Advanced level training in obstetric anaesthesia or Evidence of managing Anaesthetic services on a labour ward - including elective/emergency section lists and input into the care of complex parturient
  • Experience with anesthesia for the Robotic Surgeries
  • Advanced level training in general, urological and gynaecological anaesthesia

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoInvestors in People: GoldStonewall Health ChampionsCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerArmed Forces Covenant Bronze Award

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Charlene Grassman
Job title
Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 702 4132
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