Junior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthetics | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Anaesthetic Directorate is led by a team supporting the perioperative model recommended by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. This comprises a Clinical Director and Associate Clinical Directors for Perioperative, Elective, Emergency and Workforce..

The Trust provides many tertiary services including, Neurosurgery, Interventional Radiology, Vascular, Upper GI, major Oncology Surgery, Maxilla Facial, Plastics and Burns.

Applicants are invited to apply for this Junior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia and will be expected to provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia and follow-up. You will be offered experience in the range of subspecialties we cover, a regular commitment to medical education in a variety of areas such as undergraduate medical students and simulation at Lancashire Simulation Centre and the option of a regular commitment to our state-of-the-art clinical research facility. There will be a combination of teaching lists and solo lists with appropriate supervision.

The post holder will be expected to have experience in Anaesthesia and ideally in Intensive Care Medicine. The post holder will be expected to work under distant supervision especially during out of hour's shifts.

It is essential that the applicants be committed to their own continuing medical education and professional development.

To promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care, supporting professional activities and by the maintenance of continuing professional development.

The post holder will:

• Provide an Anaesthetic service across the


• Participate in the trainee anaesthetic rota on both hospital sites with additional cover during colleagues'


• Assume a continuous commitment for the care of patients, even if employed less than full-time and ensure, in consultation with colleagues, that adequate arrangements are made for leave and off duty


• Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by the maintenance of continuing professional


• Exercise the freedom to assist in development of specialist elements of the services to reflect perceived priorities within available


• Undertake administrative duties involved with the care of his/her


• Promote high professional standards of clinical care of patients and the health and safety of the theatre


• Maintain continuing education and professional development at least to the requirements of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.


Modern Education Centres are based at both Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital sites and offer excellent library and study facilities, including PC/Internet support for staff and students.

As a teaching hospital, we encourage all our staff to participate in teaching and training at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We are committed to developing our teaching and academic activities and can facilitate meeting any training needs for these roles.

We support the requirements for Continuing Medical Education as laid down by the Royal Colleges and are committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

We are able to offer CT3 equivalence for anaesthetists who require stage 1 top up. Specific modules and requirements can be discussed with the college tutors.