Company details

CHU Saint-Pierre is an hôpital public de proximité (a local public hospital offering both outreach and specialist services) which delivers high-quality care for all. Within this framework, we rise to the challenges of public health every day while performing our duties as a university hospital through active involvement in teaching and research.

What sets us apart is our ability to adapt to social realities, our tolerance, our freedom of thought, and our ability to work together every day for Brussels patients of all different backgrounds.

Our pursuit of excellence in cutting-edge medicine and our multi-disciplinary approach, in particular within our different specialisms, have contributed to our hospital being recognised as a centre of excellence, both nationally and internationally.

CHU Saint-Pierre is part of the IRIS network, which acts as an umbrella for public and university hospitals in Brussels. We work in close collaboration with many partners, such as general practitioners, the CPAS (Public Centre for Social Action), and other institutions offering support and care.

Our main resource is our employees, who act as the ambassadors for the five values that govern all our activities, day to day: respect, innovation, commitment, quality and solidarity.

Function

The anaesthesia department at CHU Saint-Pierre provides anaesthesia for a wide range of surgical activities. Surgical activity at CHU Saint-Pierre covers all areas of surgery, both adult and paediatric, with the exception of transplants. This includes neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery, major ENT surgery, ophthalmology, thyroid surgery, thoracic surgery, cardiac surgery, digestive surgery excluding oesophageal and pancreatic surgery, but including liver surgery and bariatric surgery, urological surgery, orthopaedic surgery and vascular surgery.

The surgical wing has 15 operating theatres, six of which are day theatres, where 7,000 “major operations” and 7,700 “same-day operations” are carried out each year[MD1] .

A surgical robot has been in operation in the surgical wing for over a year and is used by various departments, including urology (prostate as well as kidney), digestive surgery (rectal cancer) and ENT.

Robotics collaborations are taking place with the Clinique Saint-Jean and the CHU Brugmann.

In addition to this activity in the surgical wing, the anaesthesia department is active in the gastroenterology and radiology departments and works closely with the intensive care unit, which has around ten places reserved for surgery.

It also covers patients in the delivery room (2,700 deliveries a year).

The anaesthesia department also includes a "pain clinic" and is responsible for pain management within the institution via a multidisciplinary "pain" team.

Finally, the anaesthesia department is a recognised training centre that attracts many doctors in training, who are able to observe all the requisite techniques.

It facilitates a large amount of scientific research, leading to numerous publications.

In terms of human resources, the department currently has:

23 senior doctors

16 doctors in training

The department is on call 24 hours a day and works closely with a large adult emergency department (more than 70,000 emergencies a year), which treats all urgent pathologies, including many polytraumatic injuries, and a large paediatric emergency department (more than 20,000 emergencies a year).

Profile

The Head of Anaesthesia is responsible for the practice of medicine and the quality of care in the Anaesthesia Department, reporting to the Medical Director and the Medical Board. The head of department is responsible for managing the anaesthesia department.

They supervise the medical staff in all activities relating to the practice of care and are responsible for the continuity of care, the organisation and smooth running of the department and the evaluation of medical and paramedical activity, all under the authority of the hospital's medical and general management and in collaboration with the hospital's other bodies and the department's staff.

They promote, organise and structure research activities within the department; they allocate the necessary funding in line with the department's and the institution's objectives.

In consultation with the training supervisor, they are responsible for training anaesthesia assistants and Master of Medicine students coming to the department for training by organising continuing education courses and seminars, where necessary, in consultation with their respective training supervisors.

They work closely with planning and admissions administrators to manage preparatory examinations as well as with their management team.

They work closely with nursing managers in the surgical wing, as well as with their management team.

They or the person to whom they wish to delegate responsibility is a member of the operating theatre management committee.

Their main tasks are as follows:

• a) Organising the work of the doctors attached to the department.

This involves proposing the most appropriate working hours, while respecting the status of doctors (including post-graduates) and the obligation to ensure continuity of care for patients, in particular by organising and ensuring the smooth running of an on-call service (on site 24/7 and able to be called). They also ensure that the integrated operation of the institution is respected (e.g., respect for care trajectories organised within the institution). In this context, they are involved in the organisation of the hospital, ensuring that inpatient activity is supported and that average lengths of stay are respected.

• b) Ensuring that medical staff comply with professional ethics and with their regulatory or contractual obligations; in these areas, they must report any breaches to the responsible authorities.

• c) Ensuring the quality of care provided and patient satisfaction by medical staff, as well as promotion of this care with ongoing training and development of this staff. As such, they must enable all doctors to fulfil their annual continuing training obligations.

• d) Ensuring that medical activity is in line with the timetables set by the manager, so as to optimise the use of resources in a way that respects everyone, and ensuring that the equipment made available to the department in the various departments with which it works is used to optimum effect.

• e) Defining the department's investment requirements to ensure safe, quality care within budgetary constraints.

• f) Defining the minimum staff required for the department to function smoothly, taking into account the various activities carried out in the department while respecting budgetary constraints. Within this framework, they propose the necessary commitments to the manager with the aim of maintaining the department's various activities.

• g) Ensuring team cohesion, in particular through:

• • regular department meetings,
  • equitable distribution of clinical and research activities, as well as scientific leave, to enable each member of staff to fulfil their potential while meeting the objectives set for the department by the manager.

The department head may delegate some of their duties to one or more of their senior doctors.

The department head represents the anaesthesia department outside the hospital in close consultation with general medical management.

The department head is a member of the college of department heads and as such attends the specific meetings organised for this college; they are responsible for passing on to their department and circulating the institutional information provided at these meetings and for implementing the manager's decisions in consultation with them.

Skills required:

Leadership ability

Organising and structuring ability

Analytical skills

Interest in the management and financial management of a department

Skilled in empathy and mediation

Resilience under pressure

Good conflict management

Solutions oriented

Good communication

Training in hospital management and experience in team management are a plus.

Offer

Offer

• a rewarding and varied role in a university working environment with a human face;
• attractive financial status, with the CHU assuming responsibility for professional liability insurance;
• a language bonus on passing the Selor exam;
• meal vouchers, scientific leave and preferential treatment rates in all Iris network hospitals;
• a high-performance technical environment.