Job Description:

Job information Consultant Anaesthetist from the Company The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, this latest Consultant Anaesthetist job vacancy is located in the city Manchester M located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Consultant field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Due to a growth in demand for our services we are seeking to appoint three consultant anaesthetists to support activities across a range of oncological specialties in our large tertiary single site cancer centre. We would welcome applications from candidates who have a specialist interest in Critical Care and/or Pain Management, all post holders will undertake a varying amount of adult general anaesthesia work at Christie NHS Foundation Trust Withington site, supporting the specialist surgical specialties of Gynaecology, Plastic, Urology and Colorectal surgery. There is a degree of flexibility when developing job plans and consideration will be made for each candidate's unique skill sets, which would make other sub-specialty roles possible, this could include out-of-hours on call (Critical Care or Theatre), daytime Critical Care and anaesthesia for paediatric radiotherapy. Job plans will be agreed on commencement of the post with the Clinical Director for Anaesthesia & Critical Care and the service manager for Anaesthesia, Theatres and Surgery (ATS). To contribute to the provision of Anaesthesia across a range of oncological specialties held at The Christie. The post holders will undertake sessions in Anaesthesia for Oncological Surgery, Radiotherapy and will have the opportunity to provide Consultant out-of-hours on call cover for either Theatres or Critical Care. In the first instance, the total contractual commitment will be 10 PA (7.5 PA for DCC and 2.5 for SPA), allocated according to the job plan. Job plans will be agreed on commencement of the post with the Clinical Director for Anaesthesia & Critical Care and the service manager for Anaesthesia, Theatres and Surgery (ATS). Consultants' individual needs and specialist interests are supported and encouraged. Our services are dynamic and rapidly developing, thus offering further opportunities for the successful candidate. The department has a rolling 8-week rota developed from the agreed job plans of all consultants. Individual job plans reflect this and are reviewed annually, in keeping with current trust policy. The Department of Anaesthesia, Acute & Chronic Pain and Critical Care resides within the directorate of Anaesthesia, Theatres and Surgery (ATS) which is part of the division of Clinical Support & Specialist Surgery. The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, situated in south Manchester, is the largest cancer treatment centre of its kind in Europe, and an international leader in cancer research and development. The Christie serves a local population of 3 million within the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network, providing surgery, radiotherapy and complex chemotherapy services. The hospital has continued a program of major investment at the main hospital site, this includes: the recent opening of NHS England's first Proton Beam Therapy Centre, an eight bedded Oncological Critical Care Unit (OCCU) with Level 3 facilities, nine theatres, two Da Vinci robotic surgical systems, an active Clinical Trials Unit, Oak Road Treatment Centre chemotherapy suite (the largest in the UK - working 6 days a week), Brachytherapy unit, expanded Young Oncology and Haem-oncology unit, Maggie's Centre, Manchester Cancer Research Centre and the exciting redevelopment of the Paterson research facility to be opened 2023, which will give the opportunity of collaborative team research. The department has an establishment of 23 Consultant Anaesthetists supporting the development of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Services at The Christie. There is an active pre-operative and pre-habilitation service including in-house CPET and pulmonary function testing. Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will share with the other consultants the responsibility for the continuity of care of patients treated at The Christie and they will be expected to work with local managers and professional colleagues in the efficient running of services and will share administrative duties. Subject to the provisions of the Terms and Conditions of Service, the successful candidate is expected to follow the division's agreed policies and procedures, drawn up in consultation with health care professionals on clinical matters, and to follow the standing orders and financial instructions of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Clinical The contractual commitment will be an annualised average of 10 PAs per week. The consultant on-call commitment for this post is to cover the Theatres out-of-hours and holds a value of 0.67 PA per week (subject of annual review). There is also a possibility to contribute to the OCCU on call rota if skills and interest are permitting, which is valued at 2.2 PA/week, this would be subject to a PA adjustment if more consultants were to join this on call rota. Anaesthetic Services Anaesthetic care is available for a range of specialised oncological surgical procedures, often complex and requiring multidisciplinary input. The specialties involved include GI and colorectal surgery, urology, gynaecology, plastic and reconstructive surgery. Anaesthetic services are also provided for brachytherapy/radiotherapy, including paediatric and interventional radiology. Acute and Chronic Pain Service The Acute Pain Service at the Christie has long been established as a part of patient care in the trust. This service oversees approximately 300 epidurals and 300 PCAs per year offered through theatres and the OCCU, predominately for the surgical patients. The service also provides, and has written, the epidural, acute pain and PCA guidelines and prescription charts for the trust. It also provides the educational programme and educational materials for all grades of staff. The Service also has a close relationship with the Supportive Care Team (approximately 15% of acute pain patients coming through The Christie also have chronic pain problems). Surgery The Christie Directorate of Surgery is a specialist tertiary referral surgical centre that concentrates on rare cancers, complex procedures and multi-disciplinary cancer surgery and sits within the Cancer Centre Services Division of the Trust. All our specialities (colorectal surgery, urology, gynaecology, plastic and reconstruction) work as a single service in a network across populations ranging from 1.5 - 25 million, with Senior Specialist Registrars and Clinical Fellows allocated by the Specialty Training Committees to support these areas. Surgery is an integral part of The Christie comprehensive cancer centre. Our surgical teams work closely with other professionals, e.g. Clinical and Medical Oncology, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Critical Care and Anaesthetics, Acute Oncology, Palliative Supportive care, Complementary therapies, Psycho-oncology, Pathology, Nuclear Medicine and Researchers. This allows for complex multidisciplinary care of patients requiring multimodality therapies. Additionally, the Surgical Directorate provides support to patients undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy for their cancer who suffer complications or side effects that require surgical opinion/management. The Directorate of Surgery provides a service to local, regional and national populations. Much of our work is based on rare and complex cancers under the remit of specialised and highly specialised commissioning, whilst ensuring patients being treated non-surgically, within the comprehensive centre, are supported appropriately. In addition to the specialist services the surgical department is one of the two nationally funded referral centres for peritoneal tumours undertaking major, multi-visceral, cyto-reductive procedures with Heated Intraoperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC). Our surgical facilities are comprehensively equipped, running 7 operating theatres, two of which are Robotic and a separate dedicated radiotherapy theatre. With a further two operating theatres; one robotic and one integrated laparoscopic, which opened in December 2020 for The Christie Private Care. There are 8 resident specialty doctors covering OCCU resident nighttime shifts with a Clinical Fellow and Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) covering the unit during the daytime, supported by two specialist trainees in Acute Medicine.

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Closed Date : 2024-11-29