Consultant in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia - NHS
The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
There is one substantive and one locum post available.
The post is for 10.25 PAs which consists of 8.75 Direct Clinical Care PAs, including 1PA for on call and 0.25PA for ECMO service. The post holder will be part of the cardiac on-call rota (1 in 6, class A). The post holder will be expected to take part in lists allocated to cardiac surgery, cardiac interventional catheter procedures, cardiac radiology imaging and other general paediatric anaesthesia lists.
Main duties of the job
The majority of lists are allocated 1.25 DCC PAs to allow for pre- and post-op clinical activity. The cardiac surgical lists in the main cardiac theatre are allocated 1.5 PAs for each session. In line with current Trust policy this post includes 1.5 PAs core supporting professional activities (SPA).Additional SPA is subject to negotiation for activities such as educational supervision, research, Trust management positions, and service development.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man.We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists.Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow.At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
The primary responsibility of the successful candidate will be to provide perioperative anaesthetic care to patients with congenital heart disease having elective and urgent cardiac surgical procedures with and without cardiopulmonary bypass; cardiac diagnostic and interventional catheter procedures; cardiac radiological imaging; children needing essential procedures like long term vascular access, long term enteral feeding and other procedures needed for ongoing clinical care of these patients.The successful candidate will be expected to provide support to general anaesthesia consultant colleagues in caring for children with congenital heart disease having various non cardiac surgical and diagnostic procedures.
The successful candidate will be expected to undertake general anaesthetic lists, alongside the cardiac activity, as part of their job plan.
Interests of potential applicants will be encouraged, and sessional commitments may vary accordingly. All theatre sessions are regularly reviewed by the Theatre Management Team according to the needs of service so that sessions may change.
Demand for emergency surgery is extremely high and therefore it is expected that any unallocated theatre time may be reallocated to accommodate emergencies during normal working hours.
Teaching & Academic role
Participate in the teaching and training of undergraduates and postgraduates.
Develop research interests in their area of interest and expertise.
Managerial responsibilities
Supervise junior staff.
Participate in departmental meetings related to strategic planning.
Take an active role in service review and development.
CPD, Audit & Clinical Governance
Participate in CPD activity for which financial support is available.
Initiate and undertake appropriate audits as required within the department.
Take part in the clinical governance programme.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria- Full GMC registration with licence to practice
Essential
Essential criteria- Minimum of 7 years in a recognised anaesthetic training post
Essential
Essential criteria- 6 months experience in a tertiary paediatric centre including exposure to anaesthetic care of neonates
- 1-year advanced level training in paediatric anaesthesia at a tertiary paediatric hospital
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development.We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
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