Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Job overview

This is a post for a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive care created due to expansion of services. This is a full-time post with a provisional and indicative job plan as outlined. The successful candidate will work with the current cohort of Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists to provide care for patients admitted to the Lancashire Cardiac Centre.

The post holder will be employed by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and professionally accountable to both Clinical leads for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care and managerially accountable through Medical Director to the Chief Executive.

The Cardiothoracic Directorate consists of Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Cardiology, Cardiac theatres and CITU. We are part of the Division of Scheduled Care.

Main duties of the job

The successful appointee will be responsible for the provision of anaesthesia for cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery (including elective and emergency) and cardiology cases including EP procedures, TAVI, devices and PPCI. There will be an expectation to cover the cardiothoracic intensive care unit as per indicative job plan and provide out of hours service to theatres, Catheter labs and CITU.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

4. 1      Main Duties and Programmed Activities

Except in emergencies or where otherwise agreed with your clinical manager, you are responsible for fulfilling the duties and responsibilities and undertaking the programmed activities set out in your Job Plan, as reviewed annually and in line with the provisions described.

4.2       Associated Duties

You are responsible for the associated duties set out in schedule 2 of the Terms and Conditions.  These include amongst other things a requirement to: -

• Collaborate with colleagues in primary and secondary care to implement protocols for the management of patients.
• Keep up to date with the developments in the specialty.  It is expected that active consideration will be given to existing technologies in terms of cost effectiveness.  In addition, the use of the new techniques where they can be justified clinically will be encouraged.  Conforming to “state of the art” advances will ultimately depend on other priorities within the total unit.
• Contribute to post-graduate and continuing medical education.  The Trust supports the requirement of CME/CDP as laid down by the Royal College of Anaesthetists and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

4.3       On Call Duties and Emergency Responses

As above, on call duties are formed as part of a rota that currently runs on a 1 in 11 basis. This includes weekday and weekend on call commitments. Provision out of hours is required for the cardiothoracic intensive care unit, theatres, and the Catheter labs.