Consultant Anaesthetist WSI Peri Operative Medicine
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
In association with all Consultant Anaesthetists, the successful candidate will carry shared responsibility for the organisation and operation of all aspects of clinical and supporting work of the Anaesthetic department.
Main duties of the job
The definitive job plan will be agreed in conjunction with the post-holder's skills and experience. This proposed 10PA post will consist of 58 programmed activities (DCC) over an 8 week cycle, some weeks have a higher number of DCC sessions than others, and it is remunerated at 7.25 DCC Programmed activities per week.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job responsibilities
The actual content of programmed activities will be monitored periodically by use of a work diary at job plan review. It is anticipated that the job plan will include fixed sessions in Obstetric Anaesthesia with responsibilities to deliver elective and emergency obstetric activity. Other DCC activity will be timetabled theatre-based sessions with flexible specialty content agreed with the successful candidate.
The successful candidate will share responsibility for continuing clinical cover with consultant colleagues. When on call, the Duty Consultant will take an active role in the direction of the emergency team. Attendance on-site is required at times of peak activity: evenings and weekend daytime. It is expected that an onsite handover will take place from the night team at 8.00am followed by a Duty Consultant morning ward round at 8.30am on the ICU at weekends.
Person Specification
Academic Achievements
* Evidence in sustained participation in audit and quality improvement
* Author in original publication
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
203-S1792
Job locations
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
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