Consultant Anaesthetist in Paediatric Anaesthesia

Humber Health Partnership; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health partnership is seeking a Consultant Anaesthetist to provide high-quality anaesthetic services across major surgical specialties. The role includes supervision of trainees and flexibility in responding to emergencies, fulfilling a vital function in a dynamic healthcare environment with significant patient engagement.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified medical doctor with specialist training in anaesthesia.
• Experience in supervising trainee anaesthetists is essential.
• Flexibility to respond to paediatric emergencies is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide anaesthetic services according to agreed timetable.
• Cover for paediatric emergencies during planned hours.
• Supervise and train anaesthetic staff.

Skills

Anaesthetic practice

Supervision of trainees

Flexibility under pressure

Education

Qualified as Medical Doctor

Specialist training in Anaesthesia

Job description

Job overview The Department provides Anaesthesia services for all major surgical specialties and works across two sites. Most elective work takes place at Castle Hill Hospital whilst urgent care, obstetric and paediatric care is at Hull Royal Infirmary.

The Women’s and Children’s hospital manages about 6000 deliveries per year, with an elective caesarean section rate of 10% and an emergency caesarean section rate of 15%. For many years, Hull has been a leading centre for the practice and teaching of obstetric anaesthesia. There are active research and audit programs and opportunities for innovation in clinical practice.

Most Paediatric services are offered at the Hull Royal Infirmary site. Most elective paediatric surgical work includes general paediatric surgery, orthopaedics, urology, plastics, ENT and Oral maxillofacial surgery in the inpatient and Day Surgery setting.

Some neonatal surgery in elective and occasionally emergency setting is provided during daytime hours only. No out of hours neonatal surgery is currently undertaken.

The average number of paediatric surgical cases done in the 5 years from 2020-2024 is around 2500 per year

Radiology investigations such as planned paediatric MRI lists are also part of our service provision.

Main duties of the job The Consultant will be in conjunction with colleagues:

- Provide an anaesthetic service in accordance with the agreed timetable and subsequent job plan.

-Flexibilty to provide cover for paediatric emergencies in day time job planned hours.

- Consultant on call 1:22 to cover General theatres at Hull Royal Infirmary site.

- Supervise trainee anaesthetic staff within the Trust.

Working for your organisation The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further details regarding this vacancy, please see attached full job description and personal specification.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name Ganesh Gopalakrishnan Job title Clinical Director Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01482 875875