Consultant Anaesthetist - Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom - West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

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Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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The interview will be held on Thursday, 4th April 2024.

This is an exciting time to join our team, with recent renovations to our inpatient theatres and plans for a new hospital development slated for completion by 2030.

Maintenance of the highest clinical standards of anaesthetic practice and continue to contribute and drive quality and safety

To share with colleagues the responsibility for the delivery of anaesthetic services

Teaching and training of junior staff, medical students, and the MDT.

To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance

To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in continuing medical education.

BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk.

We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward).

It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work.

Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Please see job description and personal specification attached for full detail.

The Anaesthetic Department at West Suffolk Hospital is staffed with 32 substantive consultants, 8 specialty doctors and a further 28 trust and trainee doctors.

There are 2 anaesthesia associates working in theatres, with a further 2 students commencing training in March 2023, and an advanced critical care practitioner, with a further 3 in training based on the critical care unit.

All consultants are expected to be able to provide mentoring and support for non-consultant grade doctors and anaesthesia associates.

There is a 4-tier resident junior on-call rota allowing the provision of a minimum of two airway trained juniors on site 24 hours a day.

Of the airway trained juniors, one is primarily responsible for obstetrics and the other the critical care unit.

Our surgical services include ENT, general surgery including upper GI, colorectal and breast, gynaecology, dental, plastics, orthopaedics (both upper and lower limb), trauma, and urology.

We provide a 24 hour a day, 7 days a week consultant led service, providing elective and emergency cover, alongside obstetrics and the critical care unit.

As a training hospital there are trainees rotating through placements whereby they require teaching and supervision to complete their competencies for stage 1 (core or ACCS) or stage 3.1 anaesthesia training.

There will be an expectation to participate in training of junior doctors and the MDT.

The successful applicant will be expected to take part in developing services within the department and the wider Trust, and to share the clinical, administrative, and teaching work with the other consultants in the department.

Participation in clinical audit and quality improvement is a requirement. Clinical research projects are encouraged.