Trust Doctor; eqv to STin Cardiothoracic & Critical Care

Trust Doctor (eqv to ST3+) in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care

We are recruiting Trust Doctor to join our middle grade tier in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Cardiothoracic Critical Care. We are looking for enthusiastic people who can either start right away, or in May or August.

This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the UK’s premier cardiac centre – Barts Heart Centre. The Barts Heart Centre (BHC) was formed by the merging of cardiothoracic services from the London Chest Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Heart Hospital, creating the UK’s largest cardiothoracic centre with nearly all specialist cardiac services for North Central and North East London and beyond, as well as highly specialised national services, brought together in the newly built hospital on the St Bartholomew’s site.

Barts Heart Centre has 10 operating theatres, 10 catheter labs and over 250 cardiac, vascular and thoracic beds. The new hospital contains 58 critical care beds: two ICUs and one HDU comprising 42 beds form the surgical cardiothoracic surgical critical care unit, adjacent to theatres. A fourth ICU of 16 beds on the 6th floor provides a dedicated General ICU, admitting complex cardiac patients together with cardiology, respiratory patients and patients suffering from haematological disease.

Following changes to the North East London School of Anaesthesia training programme, we are now able to offer a few short‑term fellowships in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care.

The workload will be split between time spent in the cardiothoracic critical care units and operating theatres and catheter laboratories, involving all aspects of peri‑operative care of the cardiothoracic surgical and cardiology patients.

On‑call commitment will be as a resident on one of the two CICUs, working as part of a full shift on a 9‑person rota, in compliance with both the Working Time Directive and the 2016 UK junior doctor contract guidelines.

These fellows will be appointed to the anaesthetic department and will be accountable to the clinical director of the department. Clinical and educational supervisors will be allocated at commencement of the job.

• Extensive basic training in anaesthesia (equivalent to core anaesthetic training in the UK).
• Some experience at specialist registrar level is desirable.
• Primary FRCA or equivalent as a minimum.
• No cardiothoracic training is required prior to joining the department.

• Audit Day, Morbidity and Mortality Meetings and teachings.
• Multi‑disciplinary team meetings with surgeons and cardiologists.
• Weekly teaching and journal club programme in which trainees actively participate, chaired by a consultant.
• Weekly consultant‑led echo teaching.
• Advanced teaching in cardiothoracic anaesthesia provided by the Cardiac London Anaesthesia Partnership (CAP) (http://).

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world‑class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high‑performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. It also means being an outstanding place to work, where our WeCare values and behaviours are visible and guide how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

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