Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia (ST6+ equivalent)

The focus of this fellowship, beyond the delivery of perioperative care and participation in the resident on-call rotas, is gaining 12 months experience at the equivalent of step 3 (higher) level in various anaesthesia disciplines. The Fellow will work with distant, local, and direct supervision, as appropriate. The post holder will work within the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust group of hospitals, The work schedule is resident, full shift 1:10 on call rota (pro rata), at the Horton General Hospital, Banbury. This is a resident rota providing support to the trauma theatre and critical care / airway support to the rest of the hospital. A duty consultant is on site until 8pm, every day, including bank holidays and weekends. You will be the sole anaesthetist resident at night, with the consultant available from home. There is a dedicated on-call room available. Daytime work will focus on delivering and gaining experience in high turnover day case anaesthesia while at Banbury and gaining a wide experience at the equivalent of higher training level in the various disciplines on offer at the John Radcliffe hospital. Fellows are expected to undertake some solo elective theatre lists commensurate with their level of training and experience, but always with indirect consultant supervision. Clinical Governance The post-holder will participate in clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement, and any other clinical governance activities as required by the Trust, Health Authorities, and external accrediting bodies. Management The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of the Clinical Director.

• Full GMC registration and licence to practise
• FRCA or Equivalent, 5 years' experience in anaesthesia and intensive care within a structured training programme
• ALS provider
• Training in ICM, paediatrics and critical care transfer
• Current NHS experience within a large university teaching hospital, Familiar with working in teams, with ability and experience in leading teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated and sees tasks through to completion, Conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times
• Prior involvement in Audit and Clinical governance, Computer literacy in order to participate in electronic record keeping
• Able to perform common procedures required in Anaesthetic practice, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel. Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families., Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. The Trust is made up of the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Women's Centre, the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Heart Centre and Eye Hospital), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. The Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia consists of over 120 Consultant Anaesthetists and 60 trainees.