Consultant Anaesthetist with an Interest in Intensive Care

The successful candidate will provide consultant-led care across the 16-bedded Intensive Care Unit and operating theatres, participating in elective and emergency anaesthesia, critical care ward rounds, referrals and admissions, as well as the consultant on-call rota. The postholder will contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and teaching, while supporting the development of the service and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams. There is flexibility to develop a specialist interest within anaesthesia or critical care, alongside opportunities for leadership, education, research and service development.

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.

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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.

Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Membership of specialist societies; - Further postgraduate qualifications in or allied to anaesthesia

Clinical Experience

Interpersonal Skills

Desirable: - Appropriate leadership development courses and structured activities

Management

Desirable: - Desire to further develop in the appointed post and contribute to the service development

Audit & Research

Essential: - Experience of audit and quality improvement project; - Willingness to actively in the departments audit and quality improvement

Desirable: - Presentation at recognised national and or international meetings.; - Published or ongoing relevant research

Teaching

Desirable: - Medical education qualification; - Evidence of training in teaching; - Evidence of achieving GMC standards Educational Supervisor role