Locum Consultant Anaesthetist

A Locum Consultant Anaesthetist position is available working at Galloway Community Hospital, located in the south of Scotland to join an established team of Consultants, Specialty Doctors and trainees.  The Anaesthetic Department at the newly built hospital, which opened in December 2017, offers excellent facilities. The main theatre complex consists of 8 operating theatres and 4 endoscopy/minor procedure rooms.  The operating theatres include a dedicated obstetric theatre; 3 UCV (laminar flow) theatres; 2 integrated (laparoscopic theatres) and 1 theatre designed with the capability to install fixed radiological equipment.  Each theatre has an anaesthetic room.

The Critical Care Unit is located adjacent to the operating theatres and above the Emergency Department.  There is a 16 bed combined Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit with 16 individual rooms 
  
The Consultant post will comprise 10 Programmed Activities, with a split of 9:1 between Direct Clinical Care PAs and Supporting Professional Activities as standard, but the balance can be agreed with the successful person and is subject to annual job plan review as non clinical commitments increase.  A minimum of 1 SPA will reflect activities such as appraisal, personal audit, professional development (out with study leave) and teaching. Up to 2 Additional PAs may be offered. 
  
You will participate in a 1:6 on call rota (2 consultants, one of whom is always an intensivist) with compensatory time off after on call duties.  Regular educational and research meetings are held locally, and the department participates in national education events via video conferencing.  Generous funded study leave is available.
  
The Department is accredited for basic and intermediate level training in Intensive Care Medicine and is heavily involved in Critical Care and Resuscitation teaching with ALERT, APLS, ALS, SCOTTIE courses all being run from the well-equipped Education and Resuscitation Training Centre at DGRI.
  
Applicants should have full GMC registration with a license to practice and will be on the Specialist Register for Anaesthesia or be eligible for entry within 6 months.  You will be part of an on call rota and require to have competency and experience across all anaesthesia sub-specialties, particularly Intensive Care, Obstetrics and Paediatrics. A subspecialty interest in Intensive Care is desirable but other subspecialty interests could be accommodated if possible. Each Consultant has a desk and PC in the department offices, which are located adjacent to the Critical Care and Operating theatres, also with excellent views over the surrounding countryside.
  
This is a great opportunity to join a well-equipped department and work in a beautiful location in Scotland. There are huge opportunities to develop your special interests and be part of the wider Scottish network.  Dumfries is a lovely town, ideally located for outdoor activities and a fabulous place for families.  The crime rates are low, schools are excellent and the housing is affordable. The area is easily linked to the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, or travel south into the north of England.
  
If you would like to hear more details about the proposed job, and discussed how your skills and experience would fit into the department, then please contact:

Dr John Muthiah, Clinical Director for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care by email at John.Muthiah@nhs.scot,
Or Dr Stephen Wilson, Speciality Team Lead for Anaesthesia by email at Stephen.Wilson6@nhs.scot,
Or Dr Dave Christie, Speciality Team Lead for Intensive Care by email at David.Christie@nhs.scot 

Department of Anaesthesia, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary 
or by email vanessa.bowie@nhs.scot