Clinical Fellow in Anaesthetics - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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The role of fellow in paediatric anaesthesia is designed to give the appointee the necessary skills to work in a tertiary paediatric centre.

As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.

In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man.

We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists.

Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual.

As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow.

At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

Weekend on call is alongside registrar and consultant service provision. The fellow will undertake a pain ward round on Saturday alongside the pain nurse, and then independently on Sunday.

They will be resident in the hospital from 8am until 2pm Saturday and Sunday, then after discussion with consultant may be oncall from home after this.

The expectation is that the fellows will use this opportunity to manage the smooth running of the emergency theatre, and allocation of clinical priority.

They will be expected to contact the oncall consultant for advice on complex cases and neonates. They will be contacted for interesting cases and neonates after 2pm, and can therefore maximise their learning opportunities.

Day time working will be a mixture of accompanied and solo working within day case and inpatient theatres.

If working solo the fellow will have a named mentor for advice/practical assistance, and the anaesthetic coordinator will also be available.

We aim to provide month long blocks of different specialities ( cardiac, neuro/cranio, major general, orthopaedics/spine etc).

Depending on previous experience fellows may join PICU or NWTS ( transport service) usually for a period of 6 weeks.

Fellows may also join the preoperative assessment clinics, Pain MDT and SIM teaching with prior arrangement. Monthly update meetings including M&M, educational presentations and departmental meeting are part of the protected teaching provision.

Teaching is a full day bimonthly rolling programme run jointly by the northern deaneries, and the fellows are expected to coordinate and organise monthly teaching for the rotational trainees, with oversight of consultants.

They are also encouraged to join the weekly ultrasound teaching, and the difficult airway and regional anaesthesia course which run twice yearly.