Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- MT03 - MT05
- Contract
- Fixed term: 5 months (contract until 5.8.2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 328-UE-MED-0192
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Salary
- £49,909 - £70,425 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Fellow: Quality Improvement and Anaesthesia
MT03 - MT05
Job overview
Fixed term until 5.8.2025
The South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Anaesthetic department is offering a fellow post based within the anaesthetic department based at The James Cook University Hospital and Friarage Hospital. This post will be for an initial period of six months with the possibility of extending to 12 months. This post is ideal for doctors who have completed Core/ Stage 1 anaesthetic training and who wish to broaden their experience and develop their curriculum vitae before commencing specialist training. The anaesthetic department has a strong commitment to supporting doctors preparing for FRCA examinations. Excluding time spend on-call, your time will be 50% clinical and 50% non-clinical time.
Main duties of the job
Clinical commitment
There is a Clinical service commitment inclusive of a 1 in 4, weekend daytime anaesthetic on call cover at Friarage Hospital, Northallerton. This will require independent practice with distant supervision and the ability to arrange and provide safe inter hospital transfer of unwell patients. Anaesthetic cover at Friarage Hospital provides emergency airway, resuscitation and transfer support for the acute medical unit and inpatient care only. Further out of hours on-call in support of the James Cook University anaesthesia rota tiers may be required to a maximum overall on-call frequency of 1:8. There is a flexible service commitment to daytime elective and emergency anaesthesia delivery at James Cook University Hospital with opportunity to tailor sessions to individual interests.Ìý All clinical activity will be matched to the fellow’s level of training and will include appropriate consultant clinical supervision. A proportion of this work will be service provision, providing solo cover for elective anaesthetic lists (with local consultant supervision). Excluding time spend on-call, your time will be 50% clinical and 50% non-clinical time.
Working for our organisation
Perioperative Services Directorate
You will join a department consisting of 80 Consultants (including military) and 8 SAS grade doctors who form the Directorate of Anaesthesia across the two sites.Ìý In addition, there areÌýResident AnaesthetistsÌý in anaesthesia who rotate within the Northern School of Anaesthesia (Northern Deanery) and also locally employed Anaesthetists ( These include those working on portfolio pathway towards becoming a consultant).Ìý The department provides anaesthesia for a full range of tertiary services and was recently awarded Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, reflecting excellence in all areas of delivery.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details and further information are available on the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- GMC Registration (including current license to practice)
- ALS or equivalent
- Current Transfer Training certification
- Trainees wishing to opt out of their programme must have full support from their school or deanery
Desirable criteria
- Components of FRCA Primary examination
Experience
Essential criteria
- Interest in Quality Improvement
- Commitment to learning
- Commitment to Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine or Critical Care Medicine
Desirable criteria
- Ability to organise own work, learning and projects
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adrian Gooding
- Job title
- Consultant Anaesthetist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 854600
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