Anaesthesia Associate - Stevenage, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
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Stevenage, United Kingdom

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Anaesthesia Associates are highly trained, skilled practitioners that work within the anaesthetic team under the supervision of a consultant anaesthetist.

The AAs must work at all times within an anaesthesia team led by a consultant anaesthetist whose name must be recorded in the individual patient's medical notes.

Overall responsibility for the anaesthesia care of the patient rests with the named consultant at all times. The post holder, will under supervision, assist in the safe care and discharge of patients.

  • To deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients within the specialism; actively engaging in planning anaesthetic provision with appropriate supervision
  • Provide a level of advanced assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge under supervision
  • Direct responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and for the supervision of junior members of the multidisciplinary team
  • To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations within the boundaries of the role as a trainee
  • To contribute to the development and improvement of systems and processes that facilitates patient flow
  • Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within anaesthesia.
  • Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to acute medicine
  • Under supervision practice with confidence and competence within professional Guidelines (e.g. NMC/HCPC)


At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.


We run the following hospitals:


  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood


We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.


  • To deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients within the specialism; actively engaging in planning anaesthetic provision with appropriate supervision
  • Provide a level of advanced assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge under supervision
  • Direct responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and for the supervision of junior members of the multidisciplinary team
  • To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations within the boundaries of the role as a trainee
  • To contribute to the development and improvement of systems and processes that facilitates patient flow
  • Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within anaesthesia
  • To improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patient
  • To rigorously review all aspects of the patient's plan of care and identify and address issues that may result in a substandard service
  • Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to acute medicine
  • Under supervision practice with confidence and competence within professional Guidelines (e.g. NMC/HCPC
  • To ensure that accurate documentation and records of patient care are kept
  • To assist in the development of assessment systems, processes and tools
  • Ability to adapt specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings and influence service delivery and patient care
  • Actively implement effective systems and processes for infection control management and relevant audit within their clinical care
  • Learns how to administer drugs as prescribed and does so under direct supervision of the consultant anaesthetist.
  • Learns how to initiate and manage fluid and blood therapy within the plan of care.
  • Develops competence and demonstrates skills in assessing and interpreti
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