Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (View to extend to 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7118489
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale Hospital
- Town
- Keighley
- Salary
- £61,825 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Anaesthetic Senior Clinical Fellow ST4 (MT04)
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity as arisen within the Anaesthetic department for a senior clinical fellow to join our ACSA accredited department and enhance your skills.
This post is aimed at doctors with at least 2 years anaesthetic experience who are taking a year out from training, or whom are considering pursuing a speciality doctor career. Doctors with less experience will be considered provided they have obtained initial competencies in Anaesthesia, Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care. The post would also be suitable for doctors with more experience, who wish to gain the final FRCA and re-enter training. The responsibilities of the post will reflect the previous experience of the post-holder.
Fellows will have CPD sessions when not covering night duties, some of which will be used to attend the monthly department governance and education half days. Doctors wishing to gain the primary FRCA may use this time to participate in our departmental examination teaching programme. For those aspiring to gain the final FRCA, we offer a programme of support for MCQ, SAQ and VIVA practice.
** Please note this post may close early if we receive high number of applications **
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work across all areas of anaesthesia, including obstetric anaesthesia and critical care and as such must have basic competencies in all 3 area. They will have responsibility for acute and emergency care.
We can provide areas of additional interest and support doctors with exams, QI projects, teaching opportunities and are proud of our record in supporting doctors into training posts.
The posts are initially for a fixed term contract of 6 – 12 months but could be extended if mutually agreeable. The posts are designed to be fulltime but applicants wishing to work less than full-time will be considered. A 40 hr week job plan (with pro rata basic salary) is also available
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Providing anaesthetic and critical care across a range of specialites in our diverse district general hospital. You will work a rota with out of hours commitment either 1 in 8 or 1 in 10 with support from a non resident consultant. You will be expected to supervise more junior members of staff within the department. Please see attached job description and person spec for more information.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in designing and implementing quality improvement projects
- Teaching experience
- Minimum of 2 years anaesthetics experience.
- Basic competencies in anaesthesia, critical care medicine and obstetric anaesthesia
- Able to cover acute theatres, obstetric & critical care on-call duties
- NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in supervising junior anaesthetic trainees
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- Core anaesthesia training or equivalent
- Full registration with General Medical Council
Desirable criteria
- Primary FRCA
- BSc/MSc/MD/PhD
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 Sally Dunlop
- Job title
- Consultant Anaesthetist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292185
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