Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia

Job overview

Our department is friendly, open, active and progressive. We have over 40 permanent Medical Staff at Consultant, Specialist and Speciality Grades. In ITU our Consultant Body comes from Anaesthetic & Medical backgrounds with dual and single CCTs. We have Resident Doctors on training and fixed term posts from foundation year to senior registrar.

The Anaesthetic and Intenisve Care Teams provide for patients across all areas of the hospital and community. We support the Emergency Department receiving and the acute site with active admissions across all specialities for all ages. We provide anaesthesia for a wide range of specialties including Maxillofacial, ENT, Vascular, Trauma and Orthopaedics & General surgery. We have well developed Chronic and Acute Pain Teams.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will undertake an initial period of directly supervised training in order to ensure readiness for the on call and out of hours work.

On-call work will then involve covering one of the four resident on-call bleeps providing 24/7 cover. There is readily available consultant support.

The post involves working a 1 in 8 pattern of on-call:

• Long days (including 1 in 8 weekends) 08:00 to 20:30 in Anaesthetics & 08:30 to 21:00 in ITU
• Nights -  20:00-08:30 (including 1 in 8 weekends) in Anaesthetic & 20:30 – 09:00 in ITU
• The above is in addition to standard days 0800 to 1700 in operating theatres or ICU.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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