The Department of Anaesthesia provides anaesthetic services in the main theatre suite that houses 7 theatres, an admissions lounge and a post anaesthesia recovery unit. There is a two-stage recovery area staffed to step down patients from stage one and also to care for day cases performed. All theatres, anaesthetic rooms and recovery bays are equipped with modern anaesthetic machines and recovery bays are equipped with modern monitoring devices networked to a central server. There are dedicated Theatres for surgical emergencies and trauma cases including weekends.
The hospital provides comprehensive multi-disciplinary surgical services that include General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Trauma, Gynaecology, Urology, Chronic Pain, and Ophthalmic surgery. There are facilities to provide anaesthesia for Cardiology interventions, Radiological and Endoscopic procedures. Apart from doing a few elective paediatric procedures for the above specialties, we also play a vital role in resuscitating and transferring children to tertiary level centres.
We have a busy obstetric unit supported by NICU and a paediatric HDU. Currently we deliver 4,500 – 5000 babies per year.
There is a dedicated team of nurses in the Recovery area and the Pre-Operative Assessment clinics which are led by Consultant Anaesthetists. There are separate dedicated Consultant Pre-assessment clinics for Obstetrics and Paediatric Anaesthesia.
The appointee will be expected to provide anaesthesia for routine cases working alongside consultants or associate specialists. They will also be expected to run lists with remote supervision by consultant anaesthetists depending upon their experience and complexity of the list. The appointees will also be required to work in the Labour ward under consultant supervision.
The post holder is expected to provide resident on call cover with prospective cover for a proportion of leave. On call cover may include covering obstetrics and paediatric resuscitation as per rotation.
The department of anaesthesia has a 2-tier junior resident on-call rota, one specialist grade/registrar tier covering labour ward 24/7 and one specialist grade/registrar tier covering paediatric resuscitation, pain block service for fractured neck of femur patients 24/7 and in addition, covering emergency operating theatre between 22:00-08:00. The Division operates a policy of only life or limb threatening cases after 22:00 hours. The consultant on-call will be present on-site to support the registrar in such circumstances so that they are free to attend paediatric calls. All middle grade tiers are well supported by an on-call consultant on-site until 22:00 and off site with a response time of 30 minutes thereafter. On rare occasion you may be expected to help support our ICU colleagues.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Clinical Responsibilities
The following is not an exhaustive or exclusive list of the duties of this post. The appointee is expected to:
· Work independently, but within competencies at all times and seek senior support where necessary.
· Work with clinical colleagues and nursing staff to ensure efficient use of Trust’s resources and contribute actively to clinical governance in the department and to development of quality enhancement projects in the unit.
· Show flexibility and undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within allocated DCC sessions at the request of the clinical manager, as the need arises.
· Actively participate in the Unit’s Teaching Programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies.
· Actively participate in clinical guidelines development, audit and CPD.
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