Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellowship in Perioperative Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
We are delighted to advertise a twelve-month clinical Fellowship in Perioperative Medicine and Anaesthesia. This post is an exciting opportunity for a post-CCT anaesthetist or a senior anaesthetic registrar to join our team and develop their role as a perioperative physician. We pride ourselves in training excellence, and received excellent feedback from our previous fellow.
Main duties of the job
- Training in cardiopulmonary exercise testing and interpretation, progressing from direct supervision to mentored support. We train our Fellows to the level of independent consultant practice and expect to offer POETTS accreditation when nationally
- Experience of pre-operative echocardiography provided by a dedicated team of Intensive Care
- Mentored sessions in high-risk preoperative assessment
- Attendance at weekly high risk anaesthetic meeting with MDT including cardiology, respiratory, renal and ICU. (Finalists in HSJ national awards).
- Directly-supervised operating lists in upper-gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, colorectal, gynaecology and head and neck surgery, with others at request. A broad range of procedures are performed including oesophagectomy (including laparoscopic and minimally invasive approaches), bariatric surgery, hepatectomy, and Whipples’ procedure. We perform robotic assisted urological, colorectal, head and neck and gynaecological procedures. Oxford is a world leading centre for radiologically-guided ablation of tumours and sessions are available to learn the anaesthetic technique (high-frequency ventilation).
- Experience in visceral transplantation surgery including renal, simultaneous kidney- pancreas (for which we are one of the largest centres in the world), and modified multi-visceral
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. The Trust is made up of three hospitals in Oxford - the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital, and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. The Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia consists of over 120 Consultant Anaesthetists and up to 60 trainees.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
The post-holder’s duties will cover in and out-of-hours duties across all three sites.
Teaching/Research
Opportunities for teaching, training and research will be available within the fellowship programme and will be agreed prior to commencement of the fellowship.
Clinical Governance
The post-holder will participate in clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.
Personal and Professional Development
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.
Management
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of the lead clinician and/or directorate chair.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- GMC - Full registration
- FRCA or equivalent
- Recognised training in Anaesthesia At least 5 years of anaesthetic practice
Desirable criteria
- Higher Medical Degree, ATLS, ALS
- Advanced Airway Training
Other Requirements
Desirable criteria
- Full driving License
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist training in Anaesthesia and experience in multidisciplinary team working in complex cases
- Interest in research
- Ability to make decisions at ST7 level
Desirable criteria
- Experience in perioperative medicine / CPET
- Publications/presentations
- Management of complex rotas
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of team leadership skills to be able to undertake effectively the role of a Fellow, in a large multi-site teaching hospital
- Organisational skills to be able to undertake effectively, the role of a Fellow within a large multi-site teaching hospital.
- Management training and experience Commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Good personal and interpersonal skills
- Good written English. Communication skills should be highly developed.
- Experience of teaching medical, nursing and PAM, undergraduates and postgraduates
- Experience of routine clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for modernisation
- Computing skills: ability to use a word processor, spreadsheet programme and web browser
- Flexible approach to problem solving
- Experience in perioperative medicine based teaching
- Willingness to conduct and/or supervise audit
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vassilis Athanassoglou
- Job title
- Consultant Anaesthetist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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