There are 11 Senior Fellowships in Anaesthesia (post FRCA or post CCT) available for commencement in August 2024. All posts are for 12 months.
All posts are supported educationally by the East Midlands School of Anaesthesia. However, all non EMSA applicants, and any EMSA applicants appointed to out of programme posts, would have to apply to the Royal College of Anaesthetists prospectively for training approval if the post was to be counted towards CCT. Previous post holders have been successful in their applications for approval for training.
These posts have been designed to offer both sub-specialty training and development in a range of clinical areas and also opportunities for non clinical professional development in research, medical education and patient safety.
Each post will be set up with a primary educational objective, where the emphasis may be in a clinical area or a non clinical domain. Each post will also have a secondary option for clinical or non clinical professional development. Two fellowships are based on the City Campus (both Thoracic anaesthesia/Upper GI anaesthesia) and four on the Queen’s Campus.
OPTIONS FOR THE FELLOWSHIPS
Thoracic & Upper GI anaesthesia fellowship based at the City campus (Supervised by Dr P Wake) and combined with research, medical education or patient safety.
Neuro and Spines anaesthesia fellowship based at the Queen’s campus (Supervised by TBC) and combined with research, medical education or patient safety.
Head and Neck anaesthesia fellowship based at the Queen’s campus (Supervised by Dr M Barley) and combined with research, medical education or patient safety.
Obstetric anaesthesia fellowship based at both the Queen’s Campus (6 months) and the City Campus (6 months) (supervised by Dr S Bharmal & Dr A Banks), combined with either research, medical education or patient safety.
Research fellowship based at the Queens campus (supervised by Prof I Moppett) with some clinical work at the Queen’s campus.
Hepatobiliary fellowship based at the Queens campus (supervised by Dr P. Balasubramanian) combined with research, medical education or patient safety.
Regional Anaesthesia based at Queen’s campus (supervised by Dr N Bedforth) combined with research, medical education or patient safety.
Patient Safety and Leadership based at the Postgraduate centre, Queen’s campus (supervised by Prof. B Baxendale) and combined with clinical work at the Queens Campus.
TIVA fellowship based at the Queen's campus (supervised by Dr Mark Barley)
Perioperative fellowship based at the Queen's campus (supervised by Dr Kath Corrie)
Post-CCT fellowship in Emergency Anaesthesia based at Queen's Medical Centre (supervised by Dr P Townsley) combined with either research, medical education or patient safety.
The research component of the jobs is supervised by the university department of anaesthesia based on the Queen’s campus. Medical education and Human Factors Research Fellowships are based jointly in the University Department of Anaesthesia and the Trent Simulation Centre at Queen’s Medical Centre Campus.
All fellowships will include some contribution to resident on call out of hours activity at a frequency of up to 1 in 7. The banding of the post will depend upon the frequency of out of hours cover performed.
For the fellowships with a primary clinical objective, excluding the on-call component, half of the time will be allocated to clinical work (the majority within the chosen clinical specialty) and the other half to the secondary objective (e.g. research). For example if there was no on-call during a week then approximately 2.5 days would be spent in clinical training, the rest would be research time. If the fellow was on-call for 2 nights then they would split the remaining time pro-rata between clinical and non-clinical work. During the first six months the fellow would have level one supervision for the majority of their clinical sessions, but would be expected to work with level two support for more sessions during their second six months.
For the two fellowships with research & patient safety as their primary objective slightly less time is spent in clinical training.
Clinical Duties
To assist in the provision and development of a safe, effective and efficient anaesthetic service and to support the Trust in its aim to provide the best possible care to patients
To take responsibility with colleagues for the proper functioning of the department.
To undertake out-of-hours responsibilities.
To carry out all duties at the highest possible standard taking responsibility for individual patients in your care and the provision of the service as a whole
To cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences
Any other duties that may be required from time to time
To comply with Trust Health and Safety policies and maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors and staff.
To have knowledge of and employ the basic principles of infection control practice and to ensure adherence to the requirements thereof.