Consultant Anaesthetist - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Summary

We are looking for two enthusiastic and self-motivated consultants to join our department on a substantive basis, following the recent retirement of two consultants.

Post 1 will be focussed on obstetric anaesthesia with 2 sessions per week in Delivery Suite and requires someone with advanced training in obstetric anaesthesia
Post 2 is suitable for those with more general interests. We would welcome someone with expertise in areas such as preoperative assessment in this role, with opportunity to take over as lead for the Preoperative Assessment in due course.

Both jobs will involve covering general theatre lists and participating in the general on-call rota. All jobs are appointed to the Trust and will involve an element of cross site working and/or collaboration.

The Anaesthetic Department at West Middlesex University Hospital provides a service to eight theatres in the main theatre suite, two theatres in the maternity unit, CT and MRI scanners and the Endoscopy Unit.

Approximately 10,000 procedures are performed annually 85% of which are on a day case basis. The hospital has an active enhanced recovery program to optimise care.

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate.

We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Roles and responsibilities:

Provide High Quality Care to Patients
1.1. The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration.
1.2. Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
1.3. Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
1.4. Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
1.5. Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times.

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information