Specialty Doctor - Anaesthetics Intensive Care

Are you passionate about delivering excellent patient care and want to make a difference in people's lives? Then come join our team of enthusiastic expert anaesthetists., The successful applicant will join a department of 24 consultants, 12 specialty doctors/associate specialists and up to 12 rotating residents from the Yorkshire Deanery. We encourage involvement in our existing quality improvement projects and as well as new ideas for improving or developing new work streams.

The department has recently been awarded Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) having been commended by ACSA in many aspects including team communication, simulation training and Specialty Doctor career development. The initial job plan is for 10 PAs with opportunity for extra PAs (up to 12 in total) to include in hours and resident out of hours working on the critical care 1:8 rota.

Time is allocated within job plans for any additional responsibilities in addition to SPA time. Professional leave is available for agreed additional responsibilities in addition to study leave., For further details of this job vacancy, please see attached the full job description and person specification.

The post-holder must have completed at least three years of postgraduate training in the specialty of Anaesthesia and must have basic competencies in obstetric anaesthesia and critical care medicine. Or must have completed three years of single stem intensive care training and have basic anaesthetic competencies.,

• Primary FRCA
• ATLS / ALS / APLS / PALS
• EDICM or equivalent, Significant experience of working in anaesthesia as a specialty doctor or anaesthetic trainee
• Understanding of the NHS Constitution and its implications, Previous NHS experience
• Significant contribution to teaching/research or management
• CLINICAL SKILLS,
• Wide general experience of anaesthesia
• Including Critical Care, Perioperative Medicine and Obstetrics
• CLINICAL SKILLS Wide general experience of anaesthesia Including Critical Care, Perioperative Medicine and Obstetrics Ability to contribute to the full range of skills required for the on call rota
• Our award winning hospital is positioned at the gateway to the beautiful Yorkshire Dales affording the opportunity to live and work in a stunning part of the country with good schools and easy access to the larger towns of Bradford, Harrogate and the City of Leeds. The hospital covers a large geographical area between Yorkshire Dales and Bradford. As a department we have a programme of social events and many outdoor activities to appreciate the natural beauty of the surrounding outdoors.

Our dynamic department encourage involvement in our existing quality improvement projects and as well as new ideas for improving or developing new work streams. The department has recently gained

Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation. The department was commended by ACSA in many aspects including team communication, perioperative fasting and anticoagulant management, simulation training and Specialty Doctor career development. We have Consultants and SAS doctors with specialist interests in sustainability and leadership, mentoring, critical care and regional anaesthesia. We have SAS doctors in many leadership roles in the department and other trust roles.

As a Department and as a Trust we have fully embraced the specialty doctor's charter. Autonomous working for specialty doctors is in place, and within anaesthesia we have specialty doctors working autonomously.