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Consultant Anaesthetist

Medway NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum/Pro Rata
Profession
Medical doctor
Grade
Consultant
Deadline
12 Mar 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
13 Feb 2025

Job overview

Consultant Anaesthetist with Specialist Interest in:-

  • Paediatric / ENT / Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Obstetrics / Major Surgery

Division:                    Surgery & Anaesthetics

Band:                           Consultant

Salary:                         £105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum/Pro Rata

We are recruiting for Consultant Anaesthetists who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The core component of this post is to provide anaesthetic cover for a variety of surgical services, if a consultant has a special interest then the Job plan will be equally split with the specialities.

The post holder must understand the significant ongoing changes in the Trust's services and be prepared to take an active part in the change program.

A standard full time job plan will contain 10 programmed activities which could be filled by a variety of options from currently uncovered lists and flexible cover for consultant leave.

A programmed activity will normally have a timetable value of 4 hours and a full-time consultant will normally devote 8.5 programmed activities to direct clinical care (including the 1PA for on-call activity). The remaining programmed activities will be devoted to supporting professional activities.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Supporting Professional Activities: Supporting Professional Activities: 1.5 PA on average per week for continuing professional development. Opportunities for more SPAs will be offered after 12-months in post
  • All new consultants are invited to join the CMO’s Advanced Medical Leadership Program (AMLP) in their 1st year for support and mentorship and we have an established peer support mechanism to help new consultants transition from the senior trainee role to consultant, including assistance with out of hours decision-making
  • Each consultant will have access to non-clinical office space including computer access and support from our administration team.

Prime responsibility:

  • To work with the Trusts team of 31 Anaesthetic and Perioperative Medicine Consultant’s to provide elective and emergency anaesthetic care. To provide additional COVID and non-COVID rota support if needed.

Key Tasks:

  • To maintain the highest clinical standards in the management of patients under their care
  • To join and support colleagues in the development of the department to support providing high quality care to our patients
  • To demonstrate leadership and role modelling to junior doctors and other colleagues
  • To participate actively in teaching, clinical audit, quality improvement and management both at care group and divisional level.
  • To be demonstrably active in participating in CPD activitie

Well Being:

Our team has always been supportive and inclusive with an open – door policy to our managers and leadership.  As a local team, we will support any significant events and empathetically guide our colleagues through any difficult professional or personal events.  We also offer an initial mentorship for supporting new Consultants as they find their feet. Our responsive Occupational Health and Human Resource departments provide formal support and advice to our local Leadership.

We offer leadership and personal growth through our Chief Medical Officer team’s development programme. This opportunity supports the growth of the new Consultant’s skills and interests