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Consultant Anaesthetist (Obstetric and Paedatric)

Royal Berkshire Nhs Foundation Trust, Reading

Consultant Anaesthetist (Obstetric and Paedatric)

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Royal Berkshire Nhs Foundation Trust, Reading

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 31 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 70b1d72dedac4fd7a620e0fe6d7f3e3f

Full Job Description

The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital. The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Paediatrics (including a NICU), General medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, Renal Unit, Intensive care and Gastroenterology), Radiotherapy and Oncology, and all the general surgical specialities, including a Bariatric service., moved to a paperless theatre environment, including electronic anaesthetic records, with full integration with our Cerner electronic patient record.

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006 and was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust is Reading's biggest employer and is among the hospitals training medical students from the new Brunel Medical School., The hospitals have five operating suites including a total of twenty-one theatres allowing a throughput of ~20,000 cases each year. All theatres (except theatre 12) have anaesthetic rooms and each suite has fully staffed recovery facilities. As part of the consolidation plan there has been an expansion of operating facilities in the South Wing theatres and the development of a larger recovery area and provision for higher monitored care within the recovery room. In 2020 there was significant investment in anaesthetic equipment with complete replacement of all TIVA pumps, anaesthetic machines (Maquet Flow-C and Flow-I machines) and fully integrated and portable Philips monitoring. The anaesthetic equipment is of a very high standard and fully complies with minimal monitoring standards. We were one of the first cohort of hospitals in the UK to move to a model of universal video-laryngoscopy. The equipment across the Trust is uniform and we have on- site maintenance. In 2021 we

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