Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia & Education

Job overview

This post will give you the opportunity to contribute to the oversight, delivery, and quality assurance of current departmental and multidisciplinary training programs such as the South Tees Anaesthetic New Starters Course. In addition, there are several opportunities for further education related projects which you would be encouraged to develop, dependent on your individual interest. Previous incumbents have been involved in organising educational events for medical students, junior doctors, theatre staff, involving running simulation and multidisciplinary team teaching. The anaesthetic department has dedicated teaching and training facilities including high fidelity simulation and video conferencing. You will be provided with a supportive consultant educational supervisor.

Main duties of the job

There is a Clinical service commitment inclusive of a 1 in 4, weekend daytime anaesthetic on call cover at Friarage Hospital, Northallerton. This will require independent practice with distant supervision and the ability to arrange and provide safe inter hospital transfer of unwell patients. Anaesthetic cover at Friarage Hospital provides emergency airway, resuscitation and transfer support for the acute medical unit and inpatient care only. Further out of hours on-call in support of the James Cook University anaesthesia rota tiers may be required to a maximum overall on-call frequency of 1:8. There is a flexible service commitment to daytime elective and emergency anaesthesia delivery at the James Cook University Hospital with opportunity to tailor sessions to individual interests. All clinical activity will be matched to the fellow’s level of training and will include appropriate consultant clinical supervision. A proportion of this work will be service provision, providing solo cover for elective anaesthetic lists (with local consultant supervision). Excluding time spend on-call, your time will be 50% clinical and 50% non-clinical time.

Experience and familiarity with UK hospital systems and practices (as an anaesthetist), is essential. Applicants should have completed core level anaesthetic training or equivalent, ALS and a ‘training for transfer’ course. Applicants are required to be registered medical practitioners and maintain full registration with the GMC.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details.