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Job overview

The post will be based jointly with the Horton Hospital, Banbury and the Oxford hospitals.

This is a great opportunity to work with a friendly, supportive group of anaesthetists, which is part of the wider Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 

You will gain experience at a high-quality day surgery centre and have dedicated opportunities to work alongside seniors, anaesthetising patients in a variety of remote site locations, including MRI and angiography suites.  You must be familiar with the demands of a large UK teaching hospital anaesthetic department.

The postholders will provide elective and emergency anaesthesia to adults and children and be part of the hospital cardiac arrest team at the Horton, as part of the resident rota.   Alongside this, you will be gaining experience providing anaesthesia for a variety of specialties offered at OUH.  Training and professional development will be tailored to the experience and needs of the postholder, and appropriate supervision is provided at all times.

Main duties of the job

The focus of this fellowship, beyond the delivery of perioperative care and participation in the resident on-call rotas, is gaining 12 months experience at the equivalent of step 3 (higher) level in various anaesthesia disciplines.

The Fellow will work with distant, local, and direct supervision, as appropriate. 

The post holder will work within the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust group of hospitals:

• The Horton General Hospital, Banbury – Day Surgery (incl paedatrics) and Trauma
• The John Radcliffe Hospital – Trauma, Neuro, Obstetrics, Vascular, Airway, Plastics, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Intensive Care
• The Churchill Hospital – Transplant, Oncology, Airway, and Intensive Care
• The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Fellows are expected to keep accurate contemporaneous records of clinical activities or events, including pre-operative assessment, pre- and postoperative care, pain relief, critical incidents, etc., using the Trust approved documentation.

Fellows are expected to keep a record of their training including a log book of cases and a record of other activity.

Working for our organisation

The Horton General Hospital in Banbury serves the growing population in the north of Oxfordshire and surrounding areas. It has both inpatient and day-case beds, provides outpatient clinics, and is an acute general hospital providing a wide range of services, including:

• emergency department (with an emergency admission unit)
• general surgery
• acute general medicine
• trauma and orthopaedics
• gynaecology
• midwifery led unit
• paediatrics
• medical enhanced care unit
• cancer resource centre.

The majority of these services have day case surgery beds and outpatient clinics, with the outpatient department running clinics with visiting consultants from Oxford in dermatology, neurology, physical medicine, rheumatology, ophthalmology, radiotherapy, oral surgery and paediatric cardiology.  

Currently, there are four main operating theatres and a large day-case unit.