Senior Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist Clinical Fellow

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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Fellow to join our Anaesthetics team here at The Essex Cardiothoracic Center, based at Basildon.

If successful, you will get the opportunity to work and support a variety of cardiothoracic services across the centre.

We are a very supportive team and we want to ensure you get the opportunity to carve out space to explore and build on your interests. So, we commit to ensuring your job plan will reflect your interests and we welcome sub‑specialist interests including but not limited to Cardiac ITU, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, enhanced recovery, neuro‑prognostication.

We look forward to receiving your application today.

Main duties of the job

If successful, some of your duties will be to:

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• Support consultants in cardiothoracic operations and cath lab procedures
  
• Ward round, admission, and discharge
  
• Attending calls related to OHCA in the cathlabs and plan management
  
• Assisting consultants in managing post cardiac surgery and complex cardiology patients in the ITU
  
• Attending MDT and neuro prognostic team meetings
  
• Cardiovascular support (IABP, CCO etc), advanced respiratory support and renal replacement therapy
  
• Invasive monitoring lines insertion - arterial lines, CVP, Vascath
  
• Bedside TTE and transoesophageal echo cardiography
  
• Accompanied out of hours work managing wards, theatres, ITU and cathlabs
  

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well‑being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details regarding this vacancy , please refer to the attached job description and personal specification.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria

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• Demostrable Cardiothoracic experience
  
• ITU experience
  

Desirable criteria

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• Evidence of leadership experience
  

Qualifications
Essential criteria

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• MBBS or equivalent. MRCS or equivalent
  

Desirable criteria

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• Higher degree
  

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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• Anaesthetic Clinical Fellow - CTC - BA (PDF, 335.4KB)
  
• Privacy Policy (PDF, 441.0KB)
  
• Behaviours Framework (JPG, 298.0KB)
  
• Medical Payscales 2/2025 (PDF, 187.5KB)
  
• Trust 10 Year Strategy (PDF, 2.1MB)
  
• General Statements - Clinical Fellow FY1, FY2, MTI and ST1-9 (PDF, 312.4KB)