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Main area: Anaesthesia & Critical Care
Grade: Specialty Doctor
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 12 sessions per week (Will involve resident on call activity 1:10)
Job ref: 426-477-24EG-B
Site: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Town: King's Lynn
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced Specialty Doctor to join our anaesthetic department to provide a broad range of emergency and elective activity for a rural general hospital.
The heart of this role is the provision of excellent anaesthetic services for a broad range of specialties, serving the needs of our patients and our colleagues. As a small department, we rely on flexibility and teamwork. In return, we have a happy workforce and offer flexibility in return, supporting your career development.
A blend of solo activity and dual-anaesthetist sessions are provided. As a specialty doctor, all activity is supervised either directly or indirectly, so support and mentorship should always be available.
Main duties of the job
* Provide anaesthetic, obstetric and critical care services.
* Contribute to resident on call activity (1:10).
* Work collaboratively to ensure safe continuity of service.
* Assist with the service delivery by covering colleagues’ absences.
* Carry out pre and post-operative assessments as required.
* Maintain high quality patient care with minimal risk, enhanced patient satisfaction and informed consent, following GMC guidelines.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
* MRCS (Full) or equivalent experience
* FRCA primary or equivalent experience
* Current (less than 3 years since certification) provider of at least one of the following: ATLS, ALS, APLS
Experience
* At least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in Anaesthetics or as a fixed term specialty trainee in Anaesthetics or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
* Minimum six years on-call anaesthesia experience.
* Minimum two years obstetric anaesthesia experience.
* Experience in ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks upper and lower limb.
* At least 3 years’ experience in the NHS / UK.
* Completed basic competencies in anaesthesia and analgesia and able to work with distant supervision.
* Evidence of supervision or training of doctors in training.
* Spinal and epidural anaesthesia competence.
* Can demonstrate participation of regular clinical governance and quality improvement activity.
* Can demonstrate successful leadership or management.
Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).
Please be aware that if applying via NHS Jobs, your application will be imported into Trac. All subsequent information will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs & we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent via NHS Jobs. By applying for this post you are agreeing to the transfer of information in the application form to Trac jobs & if you are offered a job your personal information will be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system. Please check your email account regularly for communication regarding this vacancy.
We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
* Flexible working opportunities
* Free counselling service
* Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
* Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to-day work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.
Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.
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.
Application numbers
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