Job Title: Theatre Anaesthetic Lead
Location: The Portland Hospital, London
Salary: Competitive salary, private healthcare insurance for you and your family, vast range of additional rewards and benefits.
Shifts/Pattern or work: 37.5 Hours per week / Monday to Sunday + on calls requirement.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Recent paediatric/Obstetric caseload experience
• Operating Department Practitioner/Registered Nurse qualified
• Specialist course in Anaesthetic practice essential
• Substantial post graduate experience in Theatres in a senior role
• Current HCPC/NMC Registration
• CMI Level 3 Leadership and Management qualification or equivalent

ROLE OVERVIEW:

The Lead Anaesthetic Practitioner at the Portland will be on hand to provide clinical leadership to support and direct colleagues to plan, monitor and evaluate skilled and appropriate care for patients undergoing different forms of surgery to ensure the provision of evidence-based care. The Lead practitioner will ensure that all safety aspects of intraoperative care are adhered to.
You will also be responsible for assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care for patients undergoing surgical procedures and will need to prepare the Anaesthetic room according to the individual needs of the patient and Anaesthetist

PRIMARY DUTIES

• Assemble, check and prepare the appropriate anaesthetic equipment, emergency drugs and consumables for a wide range of operative procedures incorporating various types of anaesthesia.
• Conduct mandatory patient safety checks in conjunction with the team and according to policy, including ‘pause’ prior to administration of regional anaesthesia.
• Assist the Anaesthetist throughout the perioperative phase of care.
• Assist the Anaesthetist in monitoring the patient’s condition throughout the procedure, taking appropriate action to manage any arising complications through contingency planning.
• Lead members of the operating team to provide safe quality care to the patient throughout the procedure
  The Portland Hospital is the only private hospital in the UK dedicated to the healthcare of women and children. We’re the UK’s largest private children’s hospital with over 46 paediatric beds including a 10-bed intensive care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit, and a day case unit. Caring for over 40,000 children a year, we provide treatment for everything from general paediatric conditions to complex craniofacial reconstruction. We have over 175 paediatric consultants available to treat children from new-born up to the age of 18.