Locum Consultant- Paediatric Anaesthetist

Job summary

The Department of Anaesthesia at King’s is one of the busiest in the country giving approximately 45,000 anaesthetics per annum. It incorporates all major specialities including Intensive Care, Cardio-thoracic, Paediatrics and Neurosurgery, as well as Chronic and Acute Pain relief. There is also an active Liver Transplantation Program for which King’s is world famous. King’s is part of the UK’s first Major Trauma system becoming the Major Trauma centre for South East London. In 2013, King’s joined with the Princess Royal University Hospital (including two theatres at Sidcup) and re-opened the orthopaedic hub at Orpington providing a dedicated elective site.

Main duties of the job

The Department has approval to recruit into a fixed term contract. The postholder will have significant involvement in the delivery of paediatric/neonatal anaesthesia and adult anaesthsia both during daytime cover and as part of the paediatric consultant on-call rota. The department covers most anaesthesia specialities, and a dynamic individual with supplementary interests would be welcomed.

The remit of the post holder will be to work flexibly within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients requiring anaesthesia. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Anaesthetic Department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

The post will be based mainly at Denmark Hill site and the proposed 10 PA Job Plan is attached. There will be an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care, with the 1 PA being allocated for Supporting Professional Activity (CPD) and 0.5 SPA for new consultant development. In discussion with your department, further SPA may be allocated from team job planning for educational activities. Research time would normally be supported through external funding and or successful application for “green shoots funding”.

The On-Call commitment is for a 1:10-1:12 frequency rota non-resident paediatric consultant on- call, classed as Category A which attracts a 3% uplift….

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