We are delighted to offer the opportunity for a dynamic, motivated individual to join our team of specialist obstetric anaesthetists. The obstetric anaesthetists work within the umbrella of the peri-operative and critical care directorate at the RVI, comprising 98 consultants, 5 specialty doctors and 38 trainees. We deliver a hugely diverse range of clinical activity across adult and paediatric theatres, peri-operative medicine, critical care, acute and chronic pain management and home ventilation services. This post is specifically tailored to an anaesthetist with advanced/higher training in obstetric anaesthesia to support our work delivering anaesthetic support to the tertiary obstetric unit at the RVI. The maternity unit here assists 6000 deliveries per year with complex patients and deliveries over-represented in our numbers, including the regional Abnormally Invasive Placenta (AIP) service and services for patients with adult congenital cardiac disease. We work closely with our obstetric colleagues in the regional Maternal Medicine service with whom we provide integrated antenatal and care. We would expect a desirable candidate to provide evidence of training in the management of such complex cases, management of major haemorrhage and would especially welcome candidates with expertise in pre-operative assessment and optimisation. Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification. There are opportunities within Obstetric Anaesthesia for service development. We are looking for an individual who is flexible and keen to progress within our department. You will be expected to participate in the obstetric anaesthesia on-call rota, which currently has a frequency of 1:8 (further details on request). Additional clinical duties in adult anaesthesia will be expected, these will be in the form of negotiated daytime lists. Additionally, we seek an individual who will bolster our education team, supporting our college tutors and helping both patient level teaching, design of our education programme and networking with the Deanery and School in our position as an anchor organisation for training within the region. For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Dr Rahul Bajekal, Clinical Directoron01912824619or via email atRahul.Bajekal@nhs.netorDr Danny Morland, Lead for Obstetric Anaesthesiaon01912823796or via email atdanny.morland@nhs.net. Closing Date: Monday 22 April 2024 Interview Date: Friday 17 May 2024 Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Clinical: • This post is based within the Peri-operative and Critical Care Directorate (RVI) of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust. The allocated clinical sessions will include providing obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia on Delivery Suite and high-risk obstetric anaesthesia clinic. Increasingly, additional major cases will be managed in main theatres and may require your commitment. Outside of obstetric anaesthesia candidates will also contribute to the general adult anaesthetic service provision. • The obstetric component would usually comprise of 3 sessions per week providing elective or emergency work around delivery suite; one of these will often be delivered as a resident evening session in conjunction with the overnight on-call. The sessions are usually delivered flexibly for 43 weeks of the year. • The current scheduled on-call commitment is 1:8. Given the relatively small size of the on-call group, some flexibility in working is essential, especially while short-notice absences are unavoidable. • Adult anaesthesia sessions worked flexibly. Administrative: • To participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary quality improvement and risk management activities in Peri-operative and Critical Care. The aims of QI will include: • Ensuring compliance with national guidelines relating to Anaesthesia. • Helping to create an environment of continuously seeking to improve the quality of care. • These activities will all be carried out in a multidisciplinary manner. Clinical Governance, Clinical Effectiveness and Audit meetings occur on six mornings and six afternoons every year. All members of the Directorate are expected to attend and contribute. These meetings are utilised to deliver Trust mandatory training. • The four departments within the Directorate, Adult Anaesthesia, Adult Critical Care, Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Management function managerially as a single department. You will be expected to undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of your patients and in relation to the running of the Department of Anaesthesia in co-operation with the Heads of Department, Specialty Manager and Clinical Director. You will be entitled to become a member of the Medical Staff Committee of the hospital. • To undertake Anaesthesia administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives. • Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and pursue Trust objectives and your own personal development programme. This will be reviewed at annual appraisal and job planning. The Trust has a mentoring scheme, which new consultants are encouraged to use. • To become involved with the financial management of the Directorate budget - at all times looking to ensure the delivery of high quality care to agreed standards, but at the same time reviewing working practices to provide the most efficient use of resources. • There are close links with the other two Directorates at Freeman Hospital Peri-operative Services and Anaesthesia services within the Cardiothoracic Directorate. There is a collaborative approach to workforce planning, Clinical Governance and risk management, therapeutics, equipment and education. Research: • The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis is on studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio. • The Peri-operative and Critical Care Directorate have recently gained the accolade of becoming an Academic Clinical Directorate within NuTH with the associated access to research funding. There is ongoing CLRN activity within the Directorate and several active awards for Greenshoot and Research Capability funding within the consultant body. Teaching: • The Directorate places considerable emphasis on under-graduate and post-graduate education, and has a remarkable success rate at RCoA examinations. You will be expected to make an active contribution to under-graduate and post-graduate teaching of Anaesthesia. • The Directorate wishes to play a key role in the Regional development of training the next generation of anaesthetists and recognises the threat posed by periods of falling numbers of trainees in the Northern Deanery. • Under-graduate education is provided to medical students of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. • The Directorate also educates nursing staff, operating departmental personnel, professions allied to medicine, paramedic ambulance personnel and armed forces personnel. • The Northern School of Anaesthesia provides the hub for post-graduate anaesthetic education with teaching opportunities available to all Consultants. • All Consultants are expected to be actively involved in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the Directorate. Some will have specific responsibility for a small number of individuals as educational supervisor under the direction of the RCoA College tutor. This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024 Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident