Airway Fellow (Specialty Doctor) in Anaesthesia

AIRWAY FELLOW SPECIALTY DOCTOR GRADE
ST JOHNS HOSPITAL

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NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Entry Criteria for a Specialty Doctor:
A doctor appointed to this grade:
shall have full registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council (GMC);

And

• shall have completed at least four years full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a less than full-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme or specialty registrar locum appointment for training (LAT);

Or

• shall have equivalent training, experience or competencies, either in the UK or overseas.
  
  

Applications are welcome for the above Fixed Term, full time (40 hours per week) post based in St Johns Hospital.

This is a full-time post on a one-year fixed-term contract. It is aimed at senior trainee or post-fellowship anaesthetists looking to further their experience in airway management.

At St Johns hospital we provide anaesthesia for several airway procedures and the Fellow can expect to be involved in

• Awake tracheal intubations (flexible bronchoscopic and veideolaryngoscopic)
• Transnasal Humidified Rapid Insufflation Ventilatory exchange (THRIVE). St Johns was an early adopter of this technique and we have published several papers on its use in head and neck patients.
• Teaching and training in videolaryngoscopy for more junior members of staff
• Jet ventilation techniques- the department is presently trying to source funding for a high frequency jet ventilator
• Clinical management (and airway management MDTs) of complex airways wherever in NHS Lothian they are encountered

More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.

For an informal discussion please contact:
Dr Murray Geddes, Clinical Director, Anaesthetics and Theatres, St Johns Hospital.
or   murray.geddes@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

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We cannot accept CVs as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted.  Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally. 

***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***

Closing Date: 19/10/2024