Consultant Anaesthetist - King's Lynn, United Kingdom - Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
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King's Lynn, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent Consultant Anaesthetist to join our team.

This role will service elective and emergency lists at the QEH site in the Main Theatres, the Day Surgery Unit and the Sandringham Unit.


In this role you will collaborate with Consultant Anaesthetists to ensure comprehensive and coordinated high quality anaesthetic services that meet the requirements of the Trust's objectives.


All Consultants are expected to take advantage of study leave to maintain and develop their clinical skills to comply with CME requirements.

Consultants have a leave quota of 30 days every 3 years for the purpose of study and professional leave.

For a full-time contract, the job plan will be divided on average per week (pro-rata for a part time post) as:

  • 9 Programmed Activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care
  • includes clinical activity, clinically related activity and predictable and unpredictable emergency work
  • 1.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) includes CPD, audit, teaching and research.
The on-call activity accounts for an additional 1.7 PA, covering both obstetric and general emergencies.


With over 4,000 staff (known as TeamQEH), the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn is one of the biggest employers in West Norfolk, supporting the health and wellbeing of the local community.

QEH has 518 beds, 18 wards, a budget of circa £220m and provides a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to those who live in the three counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

We are passionate about our journey of improvement. Our vision is to become the best rural district general hospital for patient and staff experience in the UK.

We strive to deliver services that our local communities can be proud of, and to deliver exceptionally high standards of care, consistently for our patients and their families.

Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 patients in 20/21, and were ranked 27/507 nationally for Covid related research.

We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and are recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.

Clinical

  • To provide a consultantlevel anaesthetic service for elective and emergency services
  • To provide high quality patient care, minimising risks and maintaining patient safety in accordance with the GMC's Good Medical Practice
  • To help in the delivery of effective services within the agreed budget
  • To cooperate with other departments and agencies to meet the objectives of the Anaesthetic Department
  • To accept to work flexibly within a nominally fixed timetable
Organisational / Managerial

  • To supervise junior staff as appropriate
  • To provide leadership and healthmanagement skills
  • To maintain the Directorate principles of effective multidisciplinary team working
  • To ensure personal knowledge of, and compliance with, Trust and departmental protocol
Teaching

  • To help provide training, supervision and career development to junior doctors of all grades in the Anaesthetic Department
  • To contribute to the education of medical and nursing students, paramedics and trainees in other specialities as required. We have recently increased our teaching commitments to the medical schools of Cambridge University and the University of East Anglia
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