Substantive Consultant Anaesthetist CW

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic consultant anaesthetists to enhance the department with interests in regional or obstetric anaesthesia and patient safety initiatives. The successful candidates will deliver theatre sessions and participate in the on-call rota (1:16 band A).

Post may include Saturday activity within the job plan. We expect GMC specialist registration and a track record of clinical excellence, teaching, and collaborative practice within

Qualifications

• Must be medically qualified and hold GMC specialist registration.
• Develop and maintain competencies to perform duties of the post.
• Attend agreed direct clinical care Programme Activities promptly.
• Ensure patient involvement in care decisions and respond to views.
• Commit to professional customer care principles.
• Engage in multidisciplinary team learning and research translation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver theatre sessions and participate in the on-call rota.
• Provide high quality teaching to medical students and trainees.
• Collaborate with colleagues to enhance translational research and audits.

Job description

We are looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated consultants to join our department. We are looking to enhance the mix of skills and specialist interests within the consultant body.

Specifically, we would welcome candidates with strong interests in regional or obstetric anaesthesia, and a track record of implementing Patient Safety initiatives.

The successful candidate(s) would deliver theatre sessions and join the general anaesthetic on-call rota (currently 1:16 band A).

Post may include Saturday activity within the job plan.

Provide High Quality Care to Patients

• The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration.
• Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
• Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times.
• Develop clinical practice through self-reflection and learning from experience, application of research into practice and active contribution within the multi-disciplinary team.

Research, Teaching and Training

• Provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Service Director. To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.
• Responsible for teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues.
• Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust's translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.

We have two main acute hospital sites-Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

• We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
• We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
• We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
• We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
• We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
• We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life