Specialty Doctor Anaesthesia and Critical Care Bournemouth

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake advanced clinical assessment of the patient, analysing complex clinical signs, findings from physical examination, patient history and investigation results to diagnose medical/surgical conditions.
• Works autonomously in recognised situations and provide anaesthetic care independently to appropriate patients and surgical cases, including obstetric patients.
• Utilises professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and captures the learning from these experiences to improve patient care and service delivery.
• To develop and maintain effective communication with the patient, relatives and MDT where required.
• Use advanced communication skills to impart sensitive, complex and potentially distressing information to patients and carers.
• To provide accurate and effective clinical handovers across all professional boundaries.
• Make and receive patient referrals to/from other medical specialities, health care professionals or agencies, ensuring accurate written and verbal communication.
• Solo transfers of patients both intra and inter hospital where applicable.
• Documents in medical notes, history, clinical findings, physical examination, interpretation, plan of care and treatment provided.
• Undertakes reviews of critical care patients and formulates and discusses plans on Consultant ward rounds.
• To actively support the discharge planning process of patients and communicates with the receiving area/team discharge in collaboration with the healthcare team.
• Recognises own limitations and effectively seeks appropriate help from a range of multiagency and interprofessional resources in their practices.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient; discerning when confidential information should be shared in order to maintain safe conditions for healthcare practice.

Skills and Expertise

• Clinical assessment
• Anaesthetic care
• Patient communication
• Clinical handover
• Patient referrals
• Critical care
• Discharge planning
• Multiagency collaboration
• Confidentiality