Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia

City of Westminster Source: WhatJobs

£120,000–£150,000

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Neuroanaesthesia, based at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge., The successful candidate will join an expanding, innovative and dynamic department of 85 substantive Consultants, 44 Residents and 15 Senior Clinical Fellows, providing anaesthetic services in this thriving modern teaching hospital.

You will be required to have completed an SIA in Neuroanaesthesia (or equivalent), and must be able to work independently at Consultant level., The applicant must have demonstrable skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking in English that enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues, as set out in the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2013). Non-UK applicants must possess the IELTS/OET exam before obtaining a GMC licence to practice.,

Standards
Professionalism
Clinical Skills
Specialty Specific Skills related to post
Commitment to Clinical Governance/Improving quality of patient care
Communication Skills
Personal Skills
Understanding of the NHS
Commitment to ongoing Professional Development
Addenbrookes is the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge and is a flagship NHS hospital, having achieved NHS Foundation Trust status in July 2004. It has strong international links particularly through the University and it is a world-class centre for medical research.
Addenbrookes is the local hospital for people living in the Cambridge area and is a regional/supra-regional referral centre for a number of specialties, including cancer surgery, neurosurgery, transplantation, plastic surgery, vascular and paediatrics. We are also the Major Trauma Centre for the East of England. As an internationally prominent teaching hospital, there is unparalleled capacity for teaching, including involvement in the high fidelity simulation centre, and research within the department as well as the wider biomedical campus. The Neurosciences unit at Addenbrookes is the regional referral centre for adult and paediatric Neurosurgery and a quaternary referral centre for advanced neurosurgical and neuroradiological interventions with up to 6 neurosurgical areas per day. The department provides anaesthetic expertise for complex and innovative neurosurgical, major spinal and neuro-radiological procedures. The unit is also planning to build an intraoperative MRI suite. There is 2 interventional neuroradiology suites to accommodate the increasing referral for stroke thrombectomy. We are also the main teaching hospital for neuroanaesthesia for all Stage 2 NTN residents in the East of England and your will therefor be required to actively participate in the teaching and training of these residents, as well as participating and delivering teaching on the 3 monthly formal neuro-anaesthesia resident teaching programme.