Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia

at  Cambridge University Hospitals

INTERVIEW DATE

24/06/2024
Job overview
Applications are invited for the post of Consultant Anaesthetist with a specialist interest in Paediatric Anaesthesia, based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will cover elective and emergency paediatric theatres, including neonates and neurosurgical, but must also be able to deliver adult sessions. You will contribute to the on call paediatric anaesthesia rota, currently 1:10.
You will be fully registered with the GMC and have a CCT in Anaesthesia or be within six months of award of CCT at the time of interview or have submitted paperwork for Specialist Registration via CESR. Applications are welcomed from those unable to work full time for personal reasons or those wishing to job-share.
Working for our organisation
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.
Applications from job seekers who require skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
It is a requirement for skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will join an expanding, innovative and dynamic department of 85 substantive Consultants, 35 trainees and 20 Senior Clinical Fellows/Clinical Fellows, providing anaesthetic services in this thriving modern teaching hospital, which 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. In addition, this post will have involvement in the Major Trauma Centre, which is the hub covering East Anglia. As a successful 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. Notably development of a dedicated, stand-alone Children’s Hospital on the Campus is well under way.
We are the regional centre for paediatric surgery, with a 40 bedded neonatal unit (12 ICU, 16 HDU and 12 SCBU) and the only PICU in the East of England (13 beds). Paediatric anaesthetists cover many complex cases within a range of subspecialties including neonatal surgery, general paediatric surgery (including thoracic and cancer surgery), neurosurgery, urology, plastics (including clefts), ENT (including reconstructive airway surgery), complex scoliosis and orthopaedics. Paediatric cardiac surgery, paediatric transplantation and craniofacial are the only sub-specialties not offered on site.
Please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached for further details on the main responsibilities and duties for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
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Qualifications
Standards
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Standards
Professionalism
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Professionalism
Clinical Skills
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Clinical Skills
Specialty Specific Skills
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Specialty Specific skills relating to the post
Commitment to Clinical Gov
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Commitment to Clinical Governance
Communication Skills
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Communication Skills
Personal Skills
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Personal Skills
Understanding of the NHS
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Understanding of the NHS
Commitment to Ongoing Prof Dev
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Commitment to ongoing professionalism development

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.

Please refer the Job description for details