Locum Consultant

Job overview

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 team at Leicetser General Hospital within the University Hospitals of Leicester.

The Department of Anaesthesia at Leicester General Hospital provides comprehensive anaesthetic services to a wide range of specialties, including obstetrics, elective orthopaedics, elective gynaecology, urology, general surgery, day-case surgery, and the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Leicester General Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for urology and delivers major urological and gynaecological robotic surgery. The Pain Management and Sleep Medicine services are also based at this site.

The recently opened East Midlands Planned Care Centre (EMPCC) is now fully operational, providing day-case and 23-hour care across a broad range of surgical specialties, including general surgery, urology, gynaecology, ENT, and ophthalmology. The hospital has a total of 18 operating theatres, including two located within the EMPCC.

Main duties of the job

To provide Consultant Anaesthetic cover for anaesthesia, elective and emergency surgery at UHL including preoperative assessment and postoperative care.

• To participate in an Anaesthetic On-Call Rota and/or weekend emergency or trauma cover.
• - To support the provision of consultant delivered perioperative care.
• - Deliver a high quality anaesthetic service, supporting the department with a positive attitude towards flexible working.
• - Supervise and train junior anaesthetists.
• - Work with the acute pain team to provide safe and effective postoperative analgesia to patients.
• - Take part in pre assessment and high risk clinics.
• - Teaching Post-graduate and under-graduate, research and administration.
• - Work with the Clinical Governance team to enhance patient safety.
• - To work flexibly to help cover the workload of the CMG.

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 anaesthetic service for elective and emergency care at UHL including preoperative assessment and perioperative care.
• To provide specialist high-risk anaesthesia outpatient clinic work
• To participate in the Out of hours and non-resident on- call rota.
• To support the Consultant-delivered Perioperative Medicine Service
• 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 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.