Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia & Critical Care Fellow

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The closing date is 30 June 2025

The Cardiothoracic Critical Care Unit admits patients requiring Level 2 and Level 3 care following cardiothoracic surgery or cardiological procedures. The Heart Centre offers a full range of surgical and percutaneous cardiac interventions including coronary bypass grafts and valvular repair/replacement, complex aortic and pulmonary surgery and our growing minimally invasive cardiac surgical programe. The critical care unit supports extracorporeal circulation with ventricular assisted device and Impella.

Main duties of the job

On call duties include working with the Consultant Intensivist on the Cardiothoracic Critical Care to support the resident trainee anaesthetist and cover interventional cardiology emergencies in the catheter laboratory. In addition, the post-holder will work with the on-call Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist to cover all cardiothoracic surgical emergencies. There will be a requirement to liaise with consultants from other on call groups

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

On call duties include working with the Consultant Intensivist on the Cardiothoracic Critical Care to support the resident trainee anaesthetist and cover interventional cardiology emergencies in the catheter laboratory. In addition, the post-holder will work with the on-call Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist to cover all cardiothoracic surgical emergencies. There will be a requirement to liaise with consultants from other on call groups

Person Specification Qualifications/Training

• GMC Full Licence to Practice

Experience

• Evidence of Anaesthesia or Critical Care training towards CCT,

Skills/Knowledge

• Evidence of team leadership skills to be able to undertake effectively, the role of a Fellow within a large, multi site Teaching Hospital
• Good personal and interpersonal skills
• Flexible approach to problem solving.

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.

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