Consultant Anaesthetist

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT). The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond - **come and take your place with us**

The Scheduled Care Directorate at the Bury Care Organisation are looking to appoint a Consultant Anaesthetist on a permanent basis to join our growing team at Fairfield General Hospital (FGH). You will play a central role in both the delivery of safe, efficient and effective patient care; and in leading on-going improvements in anaesthetic, pre-op and theatre services.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post offers a 10 PA contract primarily to cover theatre work during the week dependent on the requirements of the service at FGH. The post also includes on-call duties and pre-operative assessment clinic cover. While routine cover will be at the FGH site, there may be an expectation to occasionally work at other sites within the North East Sector
- they have been on the specialist register for anaesthesia or have a reasonable expectation of achieving this within six months
- Expertise in regional anaesthesia is essential
- Expertise in performing upper and lower limb blocks also essential
- Current APLS and ALS certificates

**Working for our organisation**:
Bury Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Rated as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, our Fairfield site delivers innovative patient-centred care, and boasts an award winning Stroke centre and Heart Care unit. Supported by our community services in Bury, a mix of professionals from health, social and voluntary sectors, Bury exemplifies the benefits of a joined up approach to health and social care

Our hospital has excellent elective orthopaedic services, including high risk elective orthopaedics. It is expected that this division will expand over time with Fairfield General Hospital expected to become a major hub for elective orthopaedic surgery. We also have elective and emergency ENT services for the northern sector of the Northern Care Alliance (Fairfield General Hospital, Royal Oldham Hospital, and Rochdale Infirmary) and also provides anaesthetic services to 23 hour/ day case general surgery, gynaecology, urology, community dental and Oral
- max fax surgery and cardioversion

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Essential Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- MBChB or show evidence of equivalent training and experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Post Graduate Degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Wide experience in Anaesthesia
- Expertise in upper & lower limb blocks
- Good understanding of Clinical Governance
- Evidence of audit work and where this has brought about change

**Desirable criteria**:

- Research Skills: Publication of research articles, demonstrating understanding of research methodology and commitments
- Evidence of relevant peer reviewed papers and other publications (e.g. book chapter, book editor, case report - not abstracts or letters)

**Teamwork & organisational skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Proven ability to build and maintain effective teams
- Positive attitude towards members of the wider healthcare team
- Evidence of development and management of change

**Desirable criteria**:

- Able to manage and lead change internally and within multi-agency setting
- Attendance at management course
- Able to manage and lead change internally and within multi-agency setting

**Communiation**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to explain things clearly - particularly complex or sensitive information
- to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues

**Teaching**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of teaching juniors, medical students and other health care professionals

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