Specialty Doctor in Anaesthetics - North Shields, United Kingdom - Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

We have an exciting Speciality Doctor role in Anaesthetics available to work to support our Anaesthetics trainees. The role is as follows:

Main duties of the job

To provide the Anaesthetic Teaching Fellow an opportunity to gain supervised training in anaesthesia, intensive care and labour ward management through participation in a limited number of week day sessions, in addition to participation in evening, overnight and weekend day time on-call.

To provide the Anaesthetic Teaching Fellow with experience in developing, delivering, and monitoring a contemporary intensive clinical skills course, simulation-based training and traditional clinical teaching.

To allow the Clinical Teaching Fellow to carry out an educational development or research project, with a view to submitting the work for publication in learned journals.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

Detailed aims Anaesthesia

The post holder will participate in any of the anaesthetic on call rotas at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH). In addition, it is envisaged that the successful candidate will also be allocated to attend one half day supervised Consultant list per week at either Wansbeck, North Tyneside, Hexham General Hospitals, or at NSECH.

Detailed aims Teaching

The Fellow will assist in the development, co-ordination, and delivery of undergraduate teaching, across all Trust sites, but the post-holder may also be required to teach at other hospitals within the Trust. Wansbeck has recently seen the opening of a new state-of-the-art Simulation and Student Assessment Centre. Using this resource, the post holder will be encouraged to explore and develop new teaching and training opportunities.

The Fellow will participate in developing, delivering, and monitoring the contemporary intensive courses for stage 3 (third year) medical students, as well as traditional clinical teaching of senior medical students at the bedside and in the clinic. To ensure these objectives and to provide the Fellow with further training, the post-holder will be expected to register for the Certificate in Medical Education, institution to be confirmed, with Home Fees funded by the Trust. This comprises two and a half days residential course, with approximately 60 hours of self-directed learning. Alternatively, a similar qualification in education may be undertaken, supported by the Trust up to the equivalent Home Fee Rate.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable