Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Under the direction and supervision of the Consultants in transplantation, participate in:
o Donor care and donor organ retrieval
o Heart and lung transplantation
o VAD implantation
o Machine organ perfusion
o The care of heart and lung failure patients, transplant recipients and VAD patients on the intensive care unit and on the ward.
o Management of immunosuppressed patients with opportunistic infection.
o Management of complications (non-infection) of immunosuppressive drugs.
2. Patient Assessment: Participation in the assessment of patients with heart and lung failure for transplantation or for mechanical assistance.
3. Donor organ evaluation: Discuss donor offers and matching to suitable recipients with the Transplant Coordinators and the Duty Consultant Transplant Surgeon.
4. Undergo comprehensive training in donor organ assessment and retrieval (including travel to donor hospitals to carry out full assessment and resuscitation of donors and procurement of donor heart and lungs according to departmental procedural protocols). Preservation, maintenance, resuscitation and ex-vivo assessment of donor organs when required.
5. Surgery: Transplant Surgery: participate in surgery for the implantation of donor organs and/or the implantation of mechanical circulatory support devices.
6. Establishing ECMO and care of ECMO patients for heart or lung failure. Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery: To maintain skills ad hoc opportunities may arise to participate in general cardiothoracic surgery operating lists. It is intended that at least one list each week will be allocated to the post holder to maintain skills where possible.
7. Post-operative Care: Participate in the care of early post-operative transplant and VAD patients on the ICU and on the wards in conjunction with allied professionals. Participate in the daily morning and evening ward rounds. Assess and manage patients re-admitted with medical and surgical complications of transplantation or VAD.
8. Completion of accurate records including patients' clinical notes and discharge summaries. Maintaining medical audit records as required by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust.
9. Participation in teaching of junior medical staff, undergraduate students and other non-medical staff as required.
10. To adhere to the clinical protocols of the Department and support its developments, projects and practices and undertake other duties as appropriate to the level of responsibility for the smooth running of the service.
11. To participate and contribute to clinical or basic sciences research.
12. To contribute to Audit, Clinical governance and mortality and morbidity Meetings.
13. Flexibility: In line with the Trust's core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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