Registrar Anaesthetics
Job Description
Anaesthesia and critical care for emergency work is provided twenty four hours a day. There is both a Consultant Intensivist and a Consultant Anaesthetist on-call in any twenty four hour period.
The successful applicant will join the Registrar Doctor tier sharing a full-shift rota as the senior anaesthetist on-site. A team of resident Core Trainees completes the combined anaesthesia and intensive care on-call team. Together they cover the emergency theatre, labour ward (including epidural analgesia), critical care, trauma and resuscitation teams, acute pain issues and emergency transfers. Duties will be as part of a full-shift rota with night and day shift, Emergency Cover In exceptional circumstances, the Trust may request emergency cover for colleagues.
Responsibilities Duties:
a) The NCHD’s standard duties and responsibilities include, as directed by the Consultant / Clinical Director / Employer to, inter alia:
i) participate as a member of a multi-disciplinary team in the provision of medical care to patients;
ii) diagnose and treat patients;
iii) ensure that duties and functions are undertaken in a manner that prioritises the safety and well being of patients;
iv) assess patients on admission and/or discharge as required and write detailed reports in the case notes;
v) order and interpret diagnostic tests;
vi) initiate and monitor treatment;
vii) communicate effectively with patients and clients;
viii) further progress knowledge of diagnosis and management; ix) participate in multidisciplinary clinical audit and proactive risk management and facilitate production of all data/information for same; x) co-operate with such arrangements as are put into place to verify the delivery of all contractual commitments;