Senior Clinical Fellow - Anaesthesia

Job overview

Closing Date due to be 10/06/2025, Shortlisting due week commencing 16/06/2025, and Interviews due week commencing 23/06/2025.

This is a local Trust appointment to a vacant training post.  Whether this is counted towards training for the successful applicant would depend upon their suitability and approval from the Regional Advisor.  Applicants who would like this appointment to count towards training should indicate this.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be fully involved with the provision of anaesthetic services in the operating theatres and Intensive Care unit and resuscitation.  They will provide a pre and post-operative service for patients.  The post holder, depending on their level of experience, provides out of hours cover for acute / emergency theatre work or ICU or Obstetric Anaesthesia.  Work patterns follow a compliant full shift system.  There are at least 3 resident CT1 / CT2 / ST1-4 and 1 ST5-7 Anaesthetic staff in the hospital at all times.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be fully involved with the provision of anaesthetic services in the operating theatres and Intensive Care unit and resuscitation.  He/she will provide a pre and post-operative service for patients.  The post holder, depending on their level of experience, provides out of hours cover for acute / emergency theatre work or ICU or Obstetric Anaesthesia.  Work patterns follow a compliant full shift system.  There are at least 3 resident CT1 / CT2 / ST1-4 and 1 ST 5-7 Anaesthetic staff in the hospital at all times.

There is an out-of-hours non-resident consultant intensivist and a non-resident consultant anaesthetist on call.

There are monthly Clinical Governance meetings which may be departmental or hospital based.  Junior staff are expected to become involved in audit projects and be present at these meetings.