Senior Clinical Fellow - Anaesthetics

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthetics, where you'll support consultants in various surgical specialties. This role requires a dynamic individual with a strong background in anaesthesia and the ability to work collaboratively in a high-performing environment.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Access to appropriate training

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years experience in anaesthesia.
• Knowledge and experience of supervising undergraduates and junior doctors.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervised anaesthetic service with continuity of care.
• Pre-assess patients prior to anaesthesia and review post-operatively.

Skills

Knowledge of NHS structures

Teaching clinical skills

Education

MBBS or MRCS

Full Registration with the General Medical Council

Primary FRCA or equivalent

Job description

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend.

We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation determined to provide the best health care services for our local population and working in the best interests of the people we serve.

Job overview

We are looking for a enthusiastic and diligent Senior Clinical Fellow to join our close knit team here in the Department of Anaesthetics.

Your role will require you to participate in the department on call rota's working in our theatres supporting Consultants and Specialty Doctors with both elective and emergency cases involving a variety of surgical specialities including Colorectal, Upper GI, Vascular, Urology, Gynaecology, ENT, OMFS, Plastics, Burns and Orthopaedics and you may be offered opportunities to request certain specialities.

We will expect you to work in close co-operation with all departments and other medical, professional and managerial colleagues to ensure that we provide high quality healthcare to the all the Trust's patients.

Main duties of the job

Your role will include providing a supervised (direct and indirect) Anaesthetic service, with responsibility for continuity of care for patients on the burns ITU or general ITU and to be guided by consultant Anaesthetists in providing evidence based standards of care for all patients.

You will be responsible for pre-assessing all patients prior to anaesthesia and reviewing patients post-operatively in recovery or on the wards when required, assessing and examining ITU admissions and attending ITU ward rounds and ensuring that patients are issued with a discharge note from the ITU

You will join our team and become a member of the Resuscitation Team, ordering tests and obtaining results of these, maintaining and promoting team and multi-disciplinary work with other specialities, working closely and regularly with the Anaesthetics services on all our sites, supporting the governance process at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine and giving advice, support and training to all junior medical staff in medical wards.

Working for our organisation

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If this sounds like a role that you can grow and excel in then we would love to hear from you and look forward to your application.

Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MBBS or MRCS
• Full Registration with the General Medical Council. Completion of Specialist training

Desirable criteria

• Primary FRCA or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• A minimum of two years experience in the anaesthesia
• Demonstrates good knowledge of the structures and culture of the NHS, roles, responsibilities and relationships across the MDT and the multi-professional team

Desirable criteria

• Current speciality experience in the United Kingdom

Teaching Experience

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and experience of supervising undergraduates, junior doctors and other staff
• Ability to teach clinical skills

Desirable criteria

• Teaching qualification e.g. Train the trainer or Life support course instructor status
• Evidence of relevant course faculty experience

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Senior clincial Fellow-ANAES-ST3+-BA-KBC (PDF, 431.2KB)
• Privacy Policy (PDF, 441.0KB)
• AFC Pay Poster 24/25 (PDF, 39.2KB)
• Behaviours Framework (JPG, 298.0KB)
• Medical Payscales 5/2024 R (PDF, 156.0KB)