Senior Clinical Fellow (CT3 equivalent) in Anaesthesia

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This is a local Trust appointment for 6 months. Whether this counted towards training for the successful applicant would depend upon their suitability and approval from the Regional Advisor. Applicants who would like this appointment to count towards training should indicate this.
The post holder will be fully involved with the provision of anaesthetic services in the operating theatres and Intensive Care unit and resuscitation. He/she will provide a pre and post-operative service for patients. With local consultant supervision, the post holder will be expected to deliver solo lists to support reduction in the reliance on insourcing. They will contribute to either ICU, maternity or acute on call cover. Work patterns follow a compliant full shift system. There are at least 3 resident CT1 / CT2 / ST1-4 and 1 ST 5-7 Anaesthetic staff in the hospital at all times.
There is an out of hours non-resident consultant intensivist and a non-resident consultant anaesthetist on call.
There are monthly Clinical Governance meetings which may be departmental or hospital based. Junior staff are expected to become involved in audit projects and be present at these meetings.
The college tutors are Dr O Jundi and Dr F Hayat as well as the ICM Tutor, Dr James Morgan.
Regular career appraisal and counselling is given during the appointment, via allocated appraisers.
Health and Safety/Risk Management
The jobholder must comply at all times with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the Trust’s Risk Incident Reporting System.
Equality and Diversity
The jobholder is required to abide by the Trust’s policies and procedures and to actively support the Trust’s commitment to equality and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services. All patients, staff and visitors must be treated equitably, with dignity and respect taking into account their race, gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexuality etc”.
Training and Personal Development – Continuous Professional Development
The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
Patient and Public Involvement
All staff will be expected to comply with S.242 of the NHS Act 2006.
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of only two teaching hospital trusts in West Yorkshire and has a turnover in excess of £400m per annum and employs over 6,400 staff. The Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive range of acute services, supported by an extensive community service offer, offering a range of care provision to almost all patients
We have two main hospital sites: Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital. Maternity Services are centralised at the maternity unit on the Bradford Royal Infirmary site which includes our neonatal unit. The main theatres and emergency admissions are located at Bradford Royal Infirmary while St Luke’s Hospital provides a large outpatient facility and wards for therapy and rehabilitation. In 2021/22 our Trust services delivered 5,525 babies, performed 13,102 operations in theatre and handled 423,154 outpatient appointments. We had 108,503 attendances at our Emergency Department.
Respect for Patient Confidentiality
The jobholder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.
Environment and Sustainability
All employees have a responsibility to promote sustainability and carbon reduction within the Foundation Trust adhering to our Sustainable Development Strategy and therefore ensuring that all our business is conducted in a sustainable manner.
Infection Prevention and Control
All employees have a personal responsibility to comply with Trust and departmental Infection Prevention and Control policies to protect their own health, the health of patients, visitors and other employees and to prevent health care associated infections. This includes a requirement to maintain a safe, clean and tidy work environment and to complete mandatory Infection Prevention and Control Training as provided by the Foundation Trust. All clinical staff must ensure rigorous and consistent compliance with standard infection control precautions including Hand hygiene, dress code and use of personal protective equipment and other clinical care policies and protocols applicable to infection prevention and control. Employees are required to challenge poor performance or poor practice in relation to infection prevention and report any breaches using relevant Trust procedures such as the Incident reporting system.
Safeguarding Children and Adults
All employees have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring they undertake the appropriate level of training in accordance with the safeguarding policy training strategy and that they are aware of and work within the safeguarding policies of the Trus

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