Locum Consultant in Pain Medicine/Anaesthesia

Job overview

Locum Consultant in Pain Medicine/ Anaesthesia

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 Pain Medicine to join our existing team at the University Hospitals of Leicester.

The post is suitable for either single specialty; Pain Medicine or those dual trained in Anaesthesia, please contact to discuss potential job plans.

Our specialist services within pain medicine include Paediatric Chronic Pain, Facial pain clinics, Pelvic pain clinics, combined clinics with Drug de-addiction Specialist, sessions in LOROS for complex cancer pain and a successful Pain Management Programme. We liaise strongly with Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the Clinical Programme Innovation Group (CPIG) to deliver the needs of our Primary care. II

This is a full time post for 12 months, many of our previous post holders have preceded 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.

- To conduct pain clinics and perform specialised interventional pain management procedures. - To support the Pain department in delivering high quality elective and emergency theatre sessions and provide flexibility to support the service. - Responsibility for the provision of a safe and efficient anaesthetic service for elective theatres at UHL including preoperative assessment and perioperative care, should the candidate express and interest in anaesthetic theatre sessions ( Duel trained only) - To work flexibly to support the workload and cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences. - 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 CCGs; - 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 teaching and training of junior staff undergraduate students, and other clinical staff groups. - The appointee will also have supervision responsibilities for junior medical staff within the specialty. If appropriate the post-holder will be named in the contract of junior staff as the person responsible for overseeing their training and as an initial source of advice to such doctors regarding their careers. - 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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.