Senior Clinical Fellow - Anaesthetics

We are looking for forward thinking individuals to join our department as Senior Fellows in Anaesthesia. We have a range of posts on offer with various clinical and/or research interests. Combined clinical and research fellowships are available in thoracic and upper GI anaesthesia, major head and neck / difficult airway, in anaesthesia for major spinal and neurosurgery, obstetric anaesthesia & hepatobiliary anaesthesia, perioperative care, total intravenous anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia and emergency anaesthesia. These posts are open to post fellowship trainees and post CCT applicants would be especially welcomed. The posts include a contribution to out of hours' service. These posts are for 12 months and start in August 2025. The Anaesthetic Department works across the two campuses at NUH. Both parts of the department are cohesive and friendly units which take pride in providing a high standard of care in an excellent major teaching hospital environment. The Anaesthetic Department enjoys close links with the Nottingham and East Midlands School of Anaesthesia and the University Department of Anaesthesia, Nottingham University. There are active postgraduate educational programmes. Training recognition for most of these posts may require application for prospective approval to the Royal College of Anaesthetists. There will also be opportunities to get involved in audit, clinical governance, service improvement and teaching activities.,

• Participate in the delivery of a high quality 24-hour service including participation in the resident Out of Hours rota, covering a mixture of Anaesthetics, EPOC, Critical Care and Obstetric Anaesthesia. Daytime sessions will be within Anaesthetics.
• To provide internal cover for colleagues on leave, which is included in the current banding allocation of this post. In exceptional circumstances and for short periods only, Clinical Fellows may be requested to provide additional cover, for example, to cover sickness. Locums may also be employed in this instance. The rota is EWTD compliant with appropriate level of banding for anti-social hours.
• Work flexibly, maintain a logbook and portfolio, engage with supervision, undergo medical appraisal and to develop a learning plan/PDP.
• comply with management arrangements in place, to follow the guidelines on practice laid down by the General Medical Council's "Maintaining Good Medical Practice", and to be accountable to the Trust for their actions and the quality of their work.
• Comply with Trust Health and Safety policies, fulfil mandatory training requirements and maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors and staff.
• have knowledge of and employ the basic principles of infection control practice.
• maintain effective working relationships with anaesthetic, nursing, operating department, critical care, midwifery and surgical colleagues
  
  There is an Anaesthetic Department based at each campus. Both are large and active departments which have close operational links with Theatres on each site. The Anaesthetic Departments are also integrated with the Critical Care and Pain Management Services, all being part of the Clinical Support Division (CSD).
The Clinical Director for CSD is Dr Thearina de Beer and the Acute Care Pathway Clinical Director is Dr Hannah Sycamore. There is, in addition, a Speciality Lead on each campus; Dr Samira Hussain at the City campus and Dr Chris Harber at the QMC campus. Across the two campuses there are a total of 61 operating theatres. All surgical specialties are covered between the two campuses. With regard to specialties - cardiac, thoracic, renal, urology, gynaecology, burns and plastics and elective orthopaedics are located at the City campus which is also where most of the cancer surgery is undertaken. The QMC anaesthetic department supports a very significant acute surgical workload, including trauma orthopaedics, major trauma, neurosurgery and spinal surgery. All paediatric surgery is now located at the QMC campus. The QMC department also works with Critical Care to provide anaesthetic support to one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the UK. There is a large obstetric unit on each campus with dedicated obstetric junior anaesthetic cover out of hours. There is a stand-alone Day Surgery Unit on the City Campus site.