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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

About

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Hospital Foundation Trust aims to be a hospital of choice for patients and GPs and an employer of choice. Our vision is:

“To provide high-quality patient-centred care for our local population and those using our specialist services, delivered by a modern workforce in a range of settings along integrated pathways of care.”

We want our staff to live our ‘proud’ values and be :

Putting patients first
Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
Open, welcoming and honest
Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care

Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust is a major teaching hospital which provides not only general acute hospital services for our local community – for example, A&E, surgery, medicine, maternity and children’s services – but also a range of nationally and internationally renowned specialist services to patients from a much wider area.

The Trust runs two main hospitals:

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
West Middlesex University Hospital

We have nearly 6,000 members of staff that care for nearly one million people locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We are one of the first trusts to receive ‘Good’ across the board under the new CQC inspection framework. Both hospitals within our Trust—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—were rated as ‘Good’ overall.

Our Trust was awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection which was completed during the same period as the CQC assessment.

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust aim to support flexible working for our staff and as a Trust we will consider flexible working applications. Please note flexible working arrangements also need to meet the needs of the service. For further information please discuss this with the recruiting manager

Source - Trust Website

Contact

Address: 369 Fulham Road; Fulham; London; SW10 9NH
Contact Number: 020 8746 6539

Find out more

Jobs Website

Closed

COVID-19 Vacancy

Ref: 289-PCD-LCON-0314-B Vacancy ID: 5283634

Locum Consultant Anaesthetist

Closed for applications on: 7-Jun-2023 00:00

Vacancy status: Closed COVID-19 Vacancy

Closed for applications on: 7-Jun-2023 00:00

Location

Site: West Middlesex University Hospital
Address: Twickenham Road
Town: Isleworth
Postcode: TW7 6AF
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 6 months (6 months renewable up to 1 year)
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week

Salary

Salary: £88,364 - £119,133 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant)

Specialty

Main area: Anaesthetics

About our Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020, The Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Outstanding’ in the well-led and use of resources domains and ‘Good’ in the safe, effective, caring and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was ‘Good’, but the Chelsea site was ‘Outstanding’.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending c. £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex – in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

About the role

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities:

Provide High Quality Care to Patients

1.1. The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration.

1.2. Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.

1.3. Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.

1.4. Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.

1.5. Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times.

1.6. Develop clinical practice through self-reflection and learning from experience, application of research into practice and active contribution within the multi-disciplinary team.

Research, Teaching and Training

2.1. Provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Service Lead. To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.

2.2. Responsible for teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues.

2.3. Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

Performance Management
- Work with medical, nursing, other clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates
Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team
Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information

Additional Information

The Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all its employees as well as maintaining a workforce that broadly reflects the local communities we serve. In accordance with the Equality Act, we welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability.

Important:

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means that your application was not successful.
In submitting an application form, you authorise Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
During the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
Employment at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month Probationary Period

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.