Main area: Anaesthesia Grade Consultant
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Locum)
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PAs)
Job ref: 200-SNCT-712895-7030084-JT
Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Town: London, Tooting
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/04/2025 23:59
Locum Consultant Anaesthetist with an interest in Neuro Anaesthesia
Consultant
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
The post holder will join the Group of Neuro anaesthetists which consists of approximately 16 Consultants including Neuro Intensivists. This is a friendly, approachable, dynamic and diverse group, who are enthusiastic in both teaching colleagues and learning new skills from colleagues. There is emphasis in wellbeing and supporting each other. The case mix at St George’s tends to be complex and challenging.
Job overview
Applications are invited for Locum Neuro consultant posts with an interest in Neuro, General and Trauma Anaesthesia (10 PAs) and the post holders will join the Neuro on-call rota.
Upon appointment the post holder will be paired with a mentor for the first year. Furthermore, our set-up has much valuable support on-site as every day of the week, there is a senior Anaesthetic Consultant, acting as the Duty Floor Anaesthetist (DFA) for the overall smooth running of the operating theatres and providing urgent help and/or matching skills/experience of allocated anaesthetists with operating lists.
Main duties of the job
The post is for full time posts of 10 PAs, with 8.5 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and 1.5 for SPA in support of personal CPD, preparation for GMC appraisal, additional responsibilities of the post holder and revalidation with an opportunity to increase as interests develop.
The consultant job plan includes ‘annualised sessions’ which can be worked flexibly to meet the needs of the individual and the department. Each annualised session is equivalent to the PA value of the session worked. This flexibility allows individuals to organise working patterns to support a better work-life balance, whilst also ensuring we have cover within the department. It is expected that the post-holder will contribute to a proportion of annualised sessions within the field of neuroanaesthesia.
Working for our organisation
The St George’s Hospital Atkinson Morley Neurosurgical Unit is a leading UK centre for both adult and paediatric neurosurgery. It is a designated trauma centre with a specific neurosurgery service that manages all head injury patients. The Department of Anaesthesia covers all surgical specialities and is currently involved in many exciting initiatives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see main Job description.
Enquiries about the post may be directed to Dr Audrey Tan (Lead Neuro Anaesthetist) on 0208 725 0051.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Holder of Certificate of completion of training (CCT) training in Anaesthesia or equivalent, within six months of interview
* FRCA or equivalent
* Full and specialist registration with the General Medical Council (GMC), or eligible for registration within six months of interview.
* MSc, PhD or similar
* Other resuscitation certifications
Experience
* Evidence of broad experience in all aspects of general anaesthesia and able to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of the patients
* Experience of NHS working practices and systems (minimum one year working for the NHS)
* At least 6 months Advanced Training or equivalent, or Fellowship in Neuro Anaesthesia
* Relevant publications in peer reviewed literature
* Post graduate research
Skills
* Logbook evidence of all cases within last 2 years
* Logbook evidence within neuroanesthesia
* Evidence of formal training in teaching methods
* Delivering teaching to Anaesthetic Consultants and Trainees
* Evidence of Multi-disciplinary teaching in neuroanaesthesia
* Completion of appropriate Management /Leadership course(s)
* Previous experience/participation in a management/leadership role
* Post-graduate teaching qualification or equivalent
* Teaching in the Simulator setting
* Evidence of Teaching at National Level/ Regional Level
* Awards or prizes for presentations delivered
* Post-graduate qualification in leadership and management
* Lead role in developing a service
Knowledge
* Completion of Audits and/or QIPs within Neuro Anaesthesia
* Knowledge and understanding of ACSA (Anaesthetic Clinical Service Accreditation)
* Ability to work productively in multidisciplinary teams both as team leader and as team member
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to develop rapport with and discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
* Awareness of own personal developmental needs
* Experience in leading clinical audits, implementing change and monitoring compliance
* Adapting National Guidelines to departmental level, example RCOA/ AAGBI guideline
* Awareness of service development issues
* Ability to support and motivate staff, to develop junior clinicians and other staff personnel
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email or via NHS Jobs.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Dr A. Tan
Job title: Lead Neuro Anaesthetist
Email address: Audrey.T
Telephone number: 0208 725 0051
Enquiries about the post may be directed to Dr Audrey Tan (Lead Neuro Anaesthetist) or Dr E Williams (Care Group Lead) on 0208 725 0051.
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