Trainee Anaesthesia Associate

Job overview

Role Summary

Trainee will develop skills in providing anaesthetic services to patients requiring anaesthesia, respiratory care, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and/or other emergency, life sustaining services within the anaesthesia and wider theatre and critical care environments.

Trainees will be expected to attend training and examinations at University of Birmingham. This will require access to a vehicle ability to utilise public transport to facilitate this. These external visits will normally be less than once a month. There may be a requirement to attend other locations to facilitate learning and development.

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• Under instruction and supervision of the consultant anaesthetist, visit patients on the wards that require anaesthesia to perform/participate in the preoperative interviewing and physiological and psychological assessment.
• Whilst maintaining patient confidentiality, evaluate and/or collect patient information from the patient’s history, physical examination, laboratory, radiographic and other diagnostic data and inform the consultant anaesthetist of any relevant potential problems and highlight possible solutions.
• Design individual anaesthetic care plans for each patient and under supervision of the consultant anaesthetist implement these plans as appropriate.
• Following appropriate training, administer and/or participate in the planned administration of general anaesthesia for a variety of surgical and medically related procedures.
• Following appropriate training, carry out advanced clinical practices using a broad variety of techniques, anaesthesia agents, drugs and equipment in providing anaesthesia care.
• Ensure the procedure for administering, recording and storage of drugs is complied with as permitted by medicines legislation for your primary registered qualification if applicable. (This is subject to change once the AA role is regulated).
• Using analytical skills, and following hospital policy, administer and record delivery of fluids and blood therapy with the plan of care under the direction of the supervising consultant.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.