Locum General 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

3 weeks ago

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Description

We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and self-motivated consultant to join our department.

This is a full time post of 10PA, divided into 9PA direct clinical care (DCC) and 1 PA supporting professional activities (SPA).

Typical working pattern for rota without on-call commitment is 7 half day sessions per week of clinical care.

There is a 4 week working pattern with a planned weekend trauma list one week of every 4 (remunerated as 3 sessions).

The sessions are typically delivered flexibly across the weekdays, although the department may be able to accommodate some requests with regards to a fixed element to the work pattern.

Separate on-call rotas are operated for general (including labour ward), paediatric anaesthesia and Intensive 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 arePROUD to Carefor 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.

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.

Research, Teaching and Training

2.1.

Provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Service Director.

To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.

2.2. Responsible for teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues.

2.3.

Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust's translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

Performance Management
Work with medical, nursing, other clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing readmission rates
Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team
Operational efficiency e.g. daycase rates, waiting list activity and demand management.
Medical Staff Management and Accountability
1 Work with colleagues to ensure Junior doctors' hours are compliant in line with EWTD and
New Deal.
2 Ensure that Trust systems and procedures are in place and followed to control and

monitor leave for junior medical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments.

3 Adhere to Trust / department guidelines on leave, including requesting and

reporting absence, and professional and study leave, and to ensure that members of staff for whom you are responsible do the same.

4.4 Participate in the recruitment and induction of junior medical staff as delegated by the

Service Director.

Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
Responsible for ongoing assessment and regular appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors and nonconsultant grades as delegate