Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia - interest in Orthopaedics and trauma

Job overview

Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia with a special interest in Orthopaedic & Trauma

UHL is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national, and international population.  We serve the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and specialist services over a much wider area.

Applications are invited for enthusiastic and highly motivated Locum Consultants in Anaesthesia to join our expanding team at the University Hospitals of Leicester.

If you are ambitious about what you do and strive to improve patient experience, bring your dedication and determination here and you will benefit from the support of an experienced and enthusiastic multi-professional team committed to the delivery of brilliant patient care.

This is a full time post for 12months, many of our previous post holders have proceeded to a substantive position. within the Trust

Main duties of the job

• Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
• To share with colleagues responsibility for the day-to-day management of patients.
• To promote new ways of working and co-ordinating care for patients in the community and to ensure that services are based on effective and integrated partnerships across the health community.
• Take part in multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Supervise and train junior medical staff
• To be involved in appraising and assessing juniors.
• Teaching, research and administration.
• To proactively develop the service.
• To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

• Responsibility for the provision of a safe and efficient care to patients undergoing elective and urgent orthopaedic surgery.
• To provide specialist high-risk Orthopaedic anaesthesia outpatient clinic work
• To contribute to the delivery of orthopaedic or trauma sessions at weekends.
• To work flexibly to support the workload and cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences. Flexibility within the role will be required as we reconfigure, working towards a single-site UHL maternity service.
• To participate in service development and business planning in collaboration with the other Consultants in the department, the CMG and local GPs and commissioners within the local CCG:
• Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures;
• Participating in medical audit, the Trust’s Clinical Governance processes and in CPD – CPD is provided in job plans and attendance at audit and other governance meetings is mandatory; Managerial, including budgetary responsibilities where appropriate and compliance with standing orders and standing financial instructions of the Trust.;
• In line with GMC Good Medical Practice it is the responsibility of the post-holder to ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest possible standard, and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the area of work.
• The post-holder is expected to participate in professional continuing medical education; study leave is provided for this purpose.

• The post-holder will be expected to undertake the Trust Corporate and Directorate specific Induction and competency Programmes appropriate to role.
• The post-holder will be required to maintain their continuing professional development (CPD) to be able to successfully revalidate. As per the Trust requirement the successful candidate will be required to have annual appraisal and attend / keep fully up to date with statutory and mandatory training as stipulated.

Please refer to the job description for full information