Job summary
The Anaesthetics department at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust provides a variety of services across the Trust sites including General Surgery, Upper GI surgery, Colorectal, Orthopaedics, ENT, Urology, Oral Surgery.
An opportunity exists for an enthusiastic Anaesthetist seeking an opportunity to join the Anaesthetics team for a permanent appointment. This post does include an on-call commitment.
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to be appointed as Honorary Senior Lecturer at Hull York Medical School (HYMS). This honorary appointment is in recognition of contribution to teaching and research and holders of honorary titles may request access to HYMS and University premises and facilities, systems, and library services.
Job Description Approved by the Royal College
AAC Date :1st August 2024
Main duties of the job
We are currently seeking dynamic and motivated professionals to join our Trust and aid us in delivering high quality care for our patients. The Trust is going through an exciting period of change and diversity which is being led with Clinicians at the forefront.
We have posts at both our Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, and our Scunthorpe General Hospital for Consultants in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. The successful candidates will be expected to take an active role in education, teaching and clinical audit.
Scunthorpe General Hospital, Goole District Hospital and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital deliver a full range of emergency/secondary health care services including intensive and high dependency care. There are 8 fully equipped Theatres at the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital and there are 5 Theatre suites in Scunthorpe, offering a quality service to a wide range of specialties including Urology, Gynaecology, Orthopaedic/Trauma, Colorectal, Maxillo-Facial, ENT, Ophthalmology, Surgical specialties, Dental and Obstetrics.
The Anaesthetic team also lead an efficient Acute Pain Service.
About us
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post would suit a good team player dedicated to high quality patient care. The opportunity exists to work in a non-hierarchical setting and offer a wide range of general surgical procedures in a busy district general hospital.
The appointee will be expected to deliver high quality care to the patients presenting to the department.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all newemployees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oFull GMC Registration, with a Licence to Practice
- oUndertaken programme of training acceptable to the Royal College of Anaesthetist for appointment to Consultant Status
- oIntermediate Level of training in Critical Care or Equivalent
- oEntry on the Specialist Register via CCT (proposed CCT date must be within six months of interview), CESR or European Community Rights
- applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English; or
Desirable
- oHigher specialist training in ITU
Experience
Essential
- oEvidence of specific training in Anaesthetics
Desirable
- oEvidence of participation in Clinical Audit
- oEvidence of involvement in Clinical Research
- oEvidence of a special interest
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Employer details
Employer name
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Address
DPOW & SGH
Grimsby and Scunthorpe
DN33 2BA