Senior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia

We have a post for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia at East Lancashire TeachingHospitals Trust. This post will fulfil the requirements of a CT3 equivalent post. The job would befor 12 months in the first instance with option to extend depending on the needs of thedepartment. We are a big department of 41 Anaesthetic Consultants, 18 Intensive Care Consultants,16Associate Specialists/Specialty doctors, approximately 28 trainees ranging from new starterCT1 to advanced year ST7. We work across two sites: Royal Blackburn Hospital and BurnleyGeneral Hospital.There is a wide variety of surgical specialties ranging from day case surgery at our ElectiveCentre to major cancer surgery in head and neck, hepatopancreaticobiliary, colorectal, urology,gynaecology and major vascular surgery. We currently have three DaVinci robots used forurology, colorectal, gynaecological and HPB surgery. We have a busy Obstetric Unit withapproximately 6500 deliveries per year.

We have a busy 28 bed critical care unit that cares for 1600 patients per year. We take medicaland surgical emergency patients and postoperative elective patients requiring a higher level ofcare. We are involved in several local and national research and audit projects and were one of theforerunners in enhanced recovery. The department has an excellent reputation for training and trainee support. We have on-call rotas for Obstetrics, ITU (three tier) and general emergencies. The obstetric oncall has second on call resident senior middle grade anaesthetists and a non-residentConsultant. Critical Care has two trainees and an Intensive Care Consultant (two at weekends)and the general rota is covered by a Consultant, with two separate Consultants for both theemergency and trauma theatres at weekends. Initially you will be part of the obstetric on callrota but there will be opportunity for experience and development in other areas. We have good office facilities including splendid bean to cup coffee machines on both sites.Offices are open plan and there is always someone around to discuss problem cases. Oursecretaries are quite brilliant at sorting out most things and are very friendly.