Job overview

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Clinical Fellow to join our Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Team looking after patients requiring Level 2 and Level 3 support following Cardiothoracic Surgery or Cardiological procedures. Surgical work includes not only routine bypass grafts and valves but also complex aortic mitral and pulmonary procedures, and minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Training will also rotation into the ITU for specialist care

You will be required to participate in one of the department’s on call rotas depending on the gap being filled and your theater days will mostly be worked in theaters supporting consultants and specialty doctors. This can be in both elective and emergency theaters and working with cardio-thoracic. 

As an employee of the Trust the post holder will work in close co-operation with all departments and other medical, professional and managerial colleagues to provide high quality healthcare to the trust’s patients

Main duties of the job

Your role involves providing a supervised (direct and indirect) Anesthetic service, with responsibility for continuity of care for patients on the Cardiac ITU, to be guided by consultant Anesthetists in providing evidence- based standards of care for all patients and pre-assessing all patients prior to anesthesia and reviewing patients post-operative in recovery or on the wards when required.

You will assess and examine ITU admissions and attending ITU ward rounds, ensuring that patients are issued with a discharge note from the ITU, be a member of the resuscitation team and order tests and obtain results of these

Your role will be to maintain and promote team and multi-disciplinary work with other specialties working closely and regularly with the Anesthetics services on all sites, to support the governance process at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine, to give advice, support and training to all junior medical staff in medical wards and to take part in continuing medical education activities.

There will also be a commitment to post-graduation teaching of both F1’s and SHO’s in other departments.

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people. 

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.