Senior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia

Role summary

This is a 6 month fixed term appointment with the option to extend for a further 6 months pending mutual agreement. The post is based within the Digestive Diseases Clinical Business Unit at Warrington and Halton NHS Hospitals with an option to extend the contract dependent on progress. The successful candidate will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team of Anaesthetic consultants, trainees, SAS doctors, medical students and theatre staff. They will be given responsibilities for patient care commensurate with their level of experience and training. The post will suit someone who requires extra experience in Anaesthesia. Participation in audit and research will be mandatory. The post and training opportunities will be tailored to an individual candidate's needs.

Clinical Duties

Education and Training

Audit/QI activity

Covering Unforeseen Absence/Occasional Emergencies

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality. We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications. Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.

Clinical Duties

The successful candidate will have a job plan covering both elective and emergency operating theatres . Elective theatre lists will be at both the Halton and Warrington sites and will consist of a mixture of solo lists (with a nominated consultant mentor) and dire ctly supervised lists, doubled up with a consultant . The elective work will therefore allow for skill development in regional anaesthesia and in managing ASA 1-3 patients for elective surgery within a supportive environment.

The emergency component of the job will involve covering the 1 st on call anaesthetist rota (emergency operating theatre and calls to the emergency department) and there will also be some weekend sessions working as the duty maternity anaesthetist. Support to each of these roles will be provided by the consultant anaesthetist on call.

The weekly hours will not exceed 48 hours, and the rota will be compliant with European Working Time Regulations.

Education and Training

The appointee is expected to take responsibility for his/her own continuing professional development, as outlined in Good Medical Practice. They will be encouraged and supported to consolidate and develop their existing medical knowledge, as well as their technical, non-technical skills and professional capabilities. Opportunities are available in areas such as clinical education, simulation, audit and quality improvement. Although this is designated a non-training post, the successful candidate will be given the opportunity to attend trainee teaching sessions depending on the staffing level and workload of theatres that day. Ongoing training will be supervised by the College Tutor for Anaesthesia (currently Dr. Z Apple ), and will be subject to regular assessment and appraisal. We have a strong history in successfully supporting fellows through higher professional exams and the interview process for substantive training posts

Audit/QI activity

The Anaesthetic department has an ethos of audit and QI projects activity which is supported by the Trust and delivers several ongoing projects. The has achieved ACSA recognition status and therefore there are several different opportunities to take up with regards to maintaining this status such as policy writing, audits, QI projects. You will be supported by one of the Anaesthetic consultants to undertake either an ongoing project or to start a new one. Audit/QI activity helps to progress the department and will benefit your CV for ongoing jobs in the future. The ICU and Anaesthetics department have in situ simulation sessions and a monthly audit and morbidity and mortality meetings, which the candidate will be encouraged to attend.

Covering Unforeseen Absence/Occasional Emergencies

The junior doctor accepts that he /she will also perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances at the request of the appropriate consultant , in consultation where practicable with colleagues both senior and junior. It has been agreed between the professions and the department, that while juniors accept that they will perform such duties, the Secretary of State stresses that additional commitments arising under this sub section are exceptional and in particular that juniors should not be required to undertake work of this kind for prolonged periods or on a regular basis. This means that in circumstances where colleagues fall ill, you may be requested to cover their out-of-hours duties.

This job description outlines the current main responsibilities of the post. However, the duties of the post may change and develop over time and this job description may, therefore, be amended in consultation with the post holder.