Consultant Cardiac Anaesthetist — King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | MedRoles
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Consultant Cardiac Anaesthetist
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Denmark Hill
Salary
£109,725 – £145,478
Training post
Unknown
Trust type
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Posted
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About the role
The postholder will have significant involvement in the delivery of cardiac anaesthesia both during daytime cover and as part of the cardiac consultant on-call rota. The department covers most anaesthesia specialities, and a dynamic individual with supplementary interests would be welcomed.
It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the development and delivery of aspects of these services depending upon their interests and experience.
The remit of the post holder will be to work flexibly within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients requiring anaesthesia particularly within cardiothoracic surgery. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Anaesthetic Department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
The post will be based mainly at Denmark Hill site and the proposed 10 PA Job Plan is attached. There will be an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care with the remainder being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities worked over an average of 3.5 days (this includes covering the non-resident cardiac on call with a 1:7 or 1:9 frequency which attracts a 5% or 3% uplift).
All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trusts sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following: -
· The provision of a first class clinical service
· Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
· Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP
· Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies
· Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans
Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Division or the Trus
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Together with other colleagues, to provide a high-quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
Shared responsibility with other colleagues and Responsible also for covering colleagues periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract
Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure
Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework
Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.
Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies
Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s)
Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post- qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.
Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.
Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.
King’s is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.
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King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.
We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.
Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:
Brilliant People
Outstanding care
Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do
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Person specification
Essential
GMC registerable medical qualification
Full Registration with GMC and completed subspecialty training programme in anaesthesia at time of appointment or equivalent experience
On the specialist register at the point of taking up the post
Wide experience and accredited training in most aspects of anaesthesia including cardiothoracic surgery and capable of delivering services appropriate to a large teaching hospital (e.g. maxillo-facial surgery and Day Surgery)
Advanced cardiac training/fellowship and experience in TOE (transoesophageal echocardiography)
Experience in day to day organisation of Anaesthetic services in a busy NHS Hospital
Experience in day to day organisation of anaesthetic services in a busy Teaching Hospital
Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects
Experience of clinical research
Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.
Desirable
Experience of delivering Anaesthesia at Consultant level and supervising junior colleagues within that capacity.
Accreditation in TOE (transoesophageal echocardiography)
Familiarity with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Management course and/or qualification
Organisation of Audit/Journal Clubs and Morbidity & Mortality Meetings.
Publication of relevant peer reviewed papers in the field of Anaesthesia/ transplantation