Consultant in Anaesthetics with an interest in vascular anaesthesia
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 22 June 2023
Job summary
An opportunity has arisen to join our team at Colchester Hospital, we are inviting applications for a full time post, Consultant in Anaesthetics.
We are an enthusiastic and friendly team of Consultants who welcome new colleagues to join our forward-thinking, ambitious and sociable department.
The department comprises of a team of thirty-five Consultant Anaesthetists, including nine Critical Care Consultants and three chronic pain Consultants. We have two Associate Specialists, a team of Specialty Doctors and trainees from the Foundation Programme and Eastern Region School of Anaesthesia.
Main duties of the job
The new appointee will participate in their share of Consultant clinical responsibilities within the department which will include fixed or flexible operating theatre sessions and participation in the out of hours on-call rota.
The post-holder will participate in the general and obstetric on-call rota, currently 1 in 16. Consultants are resident from 5-10pm Monday-Friday and non-resident overnight. Weekend on calls are worked on a shift pattern, with one consultant (resident) covering Saturday and Sunday days (8am-8pm) and another consultant (non-resident) covering the nights (8pm-8am). The weekend night consultant also covers Friday night.
This is included in the job plan and remunerated according to current contractual terms and conditions. The non-resident on-call is 0.6PA per week with an availability supplement of 3%
Consultants who no longer partake in the night on call rota, cover trauma lists and CEPOD day lists at the weekend - currently at a frequency of 1:9. This reduces the number of on call at weekends for those on the on call rota.
This post has a requirement for you to participate in Saturday working to support both Anaesthetics and our Elective Orthopaedic Centre (The Elective Orthopaedic Centre opens in August 2024).
About us
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients' own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites - totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There's a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children's Unit.
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Date posted
25 April 2023
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
£88,364 to £119,133 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
432-MC2132
Job locations
Colchester Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JL
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colchester Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JL
Employer's website
https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)





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