Specialty Doctors in Anaesthetics (SGH)

Job overview

The Anaesthetics department at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust provides a variety of services across the Trust sites including General Surgery, Upper GI Surgery,  Colorectal Surgery, ENT, Urology and Breast Surgery.

Emergency, elective, intensive therapy and maternity services are provided at both the Grimsby and Scunthorpe sites, and Goole Hospital provides elective services only.

There are 2 permanent posts and 1 fixed term posts available.  These  posts would suit a good team player dedicated to high quality patient care. The opportunity exists to work in a non-hierarchical setting and offer a wide range of services in a busy hospital.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking to appoint a fixed term Specialty Doctor in Anaesthetics to join our forward thinking department.  The successful appointees will join a proactive group of colleagues providing services at Scunthorpe General Hospital.

Specific responsibilities will be essentially those of a post-fellowship Registrar reporting directly to his/her Consultant and would include:

• The day-to-day care and management of patients.
• Anaesthetising patients in theatre with direct and indirect Consultant supervision for both elective and emergency cases which includes a commitment to the on call rota
• Work in Intensive Care Unit including on call commitment under Consultant supervision.
• Work in obstetric unit including an on call commitment under Consultant supervision.
• Advice to other staff.
• Flexible use of time depending on the needs of the department. This may include undertaking fixed commitments out of normal working hours.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The appointee will be expected deliver high quality care to the patients presenting to the Department.

On call work is divided into 3 tiers, with Trust Grades and CT (or equivalent) as first on call, ST (or equivalent) and Speciality Doctors as second on call and Consultants as non-resident third on call. The postholder will be expected to work at both Scunthorpe and Goole Hospital.

On call commitment is 1:8 with prospective cover.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

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