Consultant Anaesthetist

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Redditch; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust invites applications for a Consultant Anaesthetist. The post involves a broad range of anaesthetic subspecialties with on‑call commitments across Worcestershire Royal Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, and aims to contribute to clinical governance, education and audit.

Full GMC registration and Specialist Register in Anaesthesia (or within 6 months) are essential, with FRCA or overseas equivalent desirable.

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise.
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Anaesthesia (or expected within 6 months of interview) via CCT or European Community Rights.
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings and work within MDTs; on three sites with on‑call rota shared with Consultants.
• Support A&E and acute medicine to ensure timely patient care and flow, providing consultation and advisory support.
• Attend cross county and cross site meetings and contribute to audits and governance as part of professional role.
• Participate in on‑call duties and hospital reviews as required, with involvement in teaching and professional development.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Decision making under pressure

Organisation

Education

GMC Registration

Specialist Register in Anaesthesia (or expected within 6 months)

FRCA or overseas equivalent

Job description

The Anaesthetic department provides services to three sites - Worcestershire Royal Hospital (WRH), Alexandra Hospital, and Kidderminster Treatment Centre (KTC), encompassing all major specialities with a strong countywide working ethos. Recent surgical reconfiguration means most elective surgery will be delivered on the Alexandra Hospital site, while the majority of emergency, trauma and obstetric work will be on the WRH site. KTC functions as a day‑case and short‑stay surgical unit. Applicants will be required to contribute to the general and obstetric on‑call rota. Clinical governance is fundamental to the operational delivery of anaesthetic services and the new appointee will be expected to contribute to clinical governance meetings (at present 11 per annum), audits and medical education including simulation training within the Trust. The department was proud to receive Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) in October 2018, recognising 100% compliance with ACSA standards, and recently re‑accredited. All candidates must be eligible for full GMC registration and either already be on the Specialist Register or be within 6 months of receiving their CCT in Anaesthesia at the time of interview. FRCA (or equivalent) is an essential qualification for this post.

The Royal College of Anaesthetists approved the Job Description on the 24th July 2026

Please note that we have an in‑person AAC booked on the 17th November 2026.

Main duties of the job

The Anaesthetic Department welcomes applications from candidates with a broad range of anaesthetic interests. We would also be particularly interested to hear from candidates with an interest in Chronic Pain Management, given forthcoming opportunities to contribute to and support the Chronic Pain Management Service.

The post will encompass a variety of anaesthetic subspecialties, with on‑call commitments at both Worcestershire Royal Hospital and The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch. On‑call work will cover emergency theatres at the Alexandra Hospital and emergency theatres and obstetrics at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. Further details are specified in the job description and person specification below.

Facilities and equipment

Worcestershire Royal Hospital

• 11 Operating Theatres (including 2 obstetric theatres and 1 ophthalmic theatre.)
• 15 intensive Care beds.

Alexandra Hospital, Redditch

• 10 Operating Theatres (including 1 ophthalmic theatre.)
• 8 Intensive Care beds.

Kidderminster Treatment Centre

• 5 operating theatres (including 1 ophthalmic theatre.)
• 2 Treatment Rooms.
• Pre‑op assessment clinics on all sites.
• Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing clinic.

Activity data

In 2025-2026 the trust performed 20150 elective procedures and 3786 emergency procedures countywide. There were 4804 births on the WRH site during this year.

New patient referrals to the Pain Management services are about 2000 per year.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital‑based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.

• A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
• The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi‑disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi‑disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.
• The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital. The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.
• The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings.
• The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trust's and departmental objectives.
• The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post.
• The Trust would expect a consultant whilst undertaking on‑call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team.
• The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise.
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Anaesthesia (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via CCT or European Community Rights.
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent.

Desirable

• Higher degree.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work in a team.
• Enquiring, critical approach to work.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education.

Desirable

• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local regional or national levels.

Experience

Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Anaesthesia.
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• Expertise in sub‑specialty

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively.
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service.
• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities.
• Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi‑disciplinary team.
• Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit.

Desirable

• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate.
• Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making.

Research Experience

Essential

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
• An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative.

Desirable

• Publications in relevant peer‑ reviewed journals in the last 5 years.
• Evidence of having undertaken original research.

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates.

Desirable

• Ability to supervise postgraduate research.

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