Consultant Anaesthetist with interest in Obstetrics

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a skilled Consultant Anaesthetist with a passion for obstetric anaesthesia at a leading NHS Trust. This pivotal role involves delivering exceptional patient care and supporting the Trust's recovery efforts post-pandemic. You will work within a dynamic team, contributing to a culture of research excellence and innovation. The position offers the chance to specialize in anaesthesia while collaborating across multiple sites. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to inclusivity and professional growth, where your expertise will make a significant impact on patient outcomes and departmental ambitions.

Qualifications

• Completion of higher training in Anaesthesia on the specialist register.
• Tertiary Level Obstetric Anaesthesia experience required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality patient care in obstetric anaesthesia.
• Support elective recovery and provide perioperative medical support.

Skills

Anaesthesia

Obstetric Anaesthesia

Teaching

Audit Experience

Organisational Skills

Education

MBChB or equivalent

Postgraduate Research Degree (MD/PhD)

Postgraduate qualification in teaching and leadership

Job description

Consultant Anaesthetist with interest in Obstetrics

YC72

Main area: Anaesthesia

Grade: YC72

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref: 349-CSS-6914423*

Site: Oxford Road Campus

Town: Manchester

Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a general anaesthetist with an interest in obstetric anaesthesia working at a consultant level across Manchester Foundation Trust. This role will be pivotal in supporting the elective recovery of the Trust as well as providing perioperative medical support post-pandemic. The successful candidate will deliver high quality patient care, as well as support the wider departmental ambition to become a centre of research excellence.

The posts will be based at Oxford Road Campus, with an expectation to work on the obstetric on-call rota. In addition, there will be an expectation for some element of work to be delivered at other sites within the Trust as well - to be agreed between successful candidates and the department.

Main duties of the job

The scale of the service within Anaesthesia and MFT enables significant subspecialisation within particular areas of interest and opportunities to develop your consultant career.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we launched in September 2022.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• MBChB or equivalent
• Completion of higher training in Anaesthesia should be on the specialist register or be within 6 months of obtaining CCT at the time of interview.
• Tertiary Level Obstetric Anaesthesia
• Adult Life Support and/or Advanced Paediatric Life Support Certification or equivalent
• A specialist interest in Obstetric Anaesthesia, specifically the anaesthetic management of patients with Adult Congenital Heart Disease
• A postgraduate qualification in teaching and leadership

Teaching and Audit

• Teaching medical students
• Experience of Audit
• Teaching junior medical staff
• GMC recognition as an educational supervisor

Academic Achievements, Research & Patient Safety

• Publication in a peer-reviewed journal, a demonstrable commitment to developing research in the Trust or a record of improving patient safety within previous organisations
• Postgraduate Research Degree (MD/PhD or equivalent)
• Demonstrate a quality improvement project in perioperative medicine or work in this area
• Demonstrate a regional or national interest in training through a transformational project

Interpersonal Skills

• Organisational skills
• Evidence of coordination of national level communication project

Other Requirements

• Full registration with the GMC (or eligible for full registration)
• Willing to reside within a distance of 30 minutes of base site

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.