Consultant Anaesthetist – Liver Transplantation/ HPB Surgery

Freeman Hospital; Carthage (MO); Sur place; USD 107 000 - 147 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through Freeman Hospital invites applications for a Consultant Anaesthetist with a focus on liver and pancreas transplantation and major hepatobiliary surgery. The role involves leading perioperative care across the transplant pathway within a highly integrated Perioperative and Critical Care team.

The successful candidate will be part of the liver transplant programme, contribute to on-call rotas, and work closely with surgical, hepatology and critical

Qualifications

• Experience in anaesthesia for liver and pancreatic transplantation and complex hepatobiliary surgery.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience with pre-operative assessment and optimisation for transplant patients.

Responsabilités

• Provide specialist perioperative care for liver/pancreas transplantation and hepatobiliary procedures.
• Participate in the consultant liver transplant anaesthetic on-call rota.
• Contribute to the transplant pathway from pre-operative assessment to post-operative care and transfer to critical care.

Connaissances

Liver transplant anaesthesia

Critical care teamwork

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Formation

Primary Medical Qualification

GMC Registration

Specialist Register entry within 6 months

Description du poste

Consultant Anaesthetist – Liver Transplantation/ HPB Surgery Consultant Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion. With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country. As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated and ambitious Consultant Anaesthetist to join our well-integrated Perioperative and Critical Care team at Freeman Hospital, with a specialist role in liver and pancreas transplantation and major hepatobiliary surgery.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist perioperative care including pre-operative assessment, intra-operative anaesthetic management and post-operative care to patients undergoing liver and pancreas transplantation, major hepatobiliary surgery and other complex operative procedures.

The successful applicant will become a member of the consultant anaesthetic team supporting the liver transplant programme and will participate in the consultant liver transplant anaesthetic on-call rota, providing senior anaesthetic expertise for urgent and out-of-hours liver and pancreas transplantation.

The post holder will contribute to the wider work of the Perioperative and Critical Care Directorate. The precise balance of liver transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery and other anaesthetic activity will be agreed through the consultant job-planning process.

Working for our organisation

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: John Davidson, Clinical Director on 0191 244 8972, or via email at [e-mail].

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The successful applicant will join the consultant anaesthetic team supporting the Freeman Hospital liver and pancreas transplant programme and will participate in the dedicated consultant liver transplant anaesthetic on-call rota. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a highly specialised multidisciplinary service caring for some of the most complex perioperative patients. The successful candidate will have substantial experience in the anaesthetic management of major complex surgery and specific experience relevant to liver transplantation. They will provide specialist care throughout the transplant pathway, including pre-operative assessment and optimisation, complex intra-operative anaesthetic management, and transfer and handover to critical care.

Person specification

Education, Qualifications And Specialist Skills

Essential criteria

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC Registration.
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).

Desirable criteria

• Higher Degree.
• Special skills training in the specialty.

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience in anaesthesia for liver and pancreatic transplantation and complex hepatobiliary surgery sufficient to undertake independent consultant practice following appropriate local induction and credentialing.
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the abdominal transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.
• Recent completion of SIA/fellowship or advanced training unit in abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary anaesthesia.
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within liver and pancreatic transplantation.
• Demonstrable ability to work effectively with surgical, hepatology, critical care, theatre, transfusion and wider multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.

Desirable criteria

• Experience managing a broad range of complex liver transplant recipients.
• Experience of complex hepatobiliary surgery.
• Experience contributing to transplant multidisciplinary meetings
• Experience contributing to transplant governance or programme development.

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.

Desirable criteria

• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
• Evidence of leadership / project management.
• Evidence of having implemented change.
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.

Desirable criteria

• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
• Experience delivering liver transplant, major surgery or multidisciplinary simulation training.

Research

Essential criteria

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature.

Desirable criteria

• Higher degree.
• Research relating to transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, haemostasis, advanced vascular access, perioperative medicine or major surgery.
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit

Essential criteria

• Evidence of participation in audit.
• Quality-improvement activity relevant to transplantation or major perioperative care.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e‑mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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

• Job Description (PDF, 693.5KB)
• Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
• Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Victoria Cowan Job title HR Advisor Email address [e-mail]