Consultant In Anaesthesia

Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals Nhs Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust seeks a Consultant Anaesthetist for a whole-time post with 8.5 PAs and 1.5 SPA. The appointee will share caseload, provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia and follow-up, and participate in developing new techniques and leadership roles across two main sites. Teaching and junior staff support are emphasised.

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent required to practice medicine.
• CCT or within six months of award by interview date.
• GMC registration with licence to practice is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia and follow-up for patients.
• Deliver anaesthetic care for adults and children across specialties as required.
• Share departmental workload and undertake cross-site duties with two main hospital sites.

Education

MBBS or equivalent

Certificate of completion of training (CCT) or equivalent or within six months of award of CCT by date of interview

Fully GMC registered with a licence to practice

Job description

Job summary

The Trust seeks to appoint a Consultant Anaesthetist. This is a whole-time position, and the new appointee will share the caseload, facilities, and trainee grade support with the existing consultants. Requirements of the post-holder are listed below. The post is whole time post of 10 PA's and offers 8.5 programmed activities (PAs), and 1.5 SPA. The successful candidate will be expected to provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia, and follow-up. He/she will be expected to introduce and apply new techniques as appropriate and to take a share of the general work of the department, including cover for consultant colleagues where practical. There are opportunities and support provided to develop leadership roles such as sub-specialty lead and college tutor. The Department of Anaesthesia is committed to continuing its teaching role and considerable importance is attached to the support of the junior medical staff in the Department.

Main duties of the job

The appointment is to the Trust, not to specific hospitals. The appointee will take his/her share of clinical responsibilities within the Department of anaesthesia. This will include provision for clinics in the pre-operative assessment department. In addition to any duties within a subspeciality of interest, the appointee will be required to provide anaesthesia for adult and child patients in all specialties as appropriate to his/her training and experience.

There is a need to develop a team with a strong emphasis on delivering a cross-site service. Post-holders will be required to work on each site.

Consultants will agree to a job plan, which is reviewed annually.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care. We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Qualifications and experience

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent
• Holder of Certificate of completion of training (CCT) or Equivalent or within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
• Fully GMC registered with a licence to practice

Desirable

• SIA/fellowship or equivalent in a subspecialist area such as paediatrics, regional, acute pain or perioperative medicine
• Experience in pre-operative assessment with clinical pathway development and coordination of perioperative care
• NHS experience at an acute hospital within an inner-city location

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Anaes Medical Staff, Queen & King George Hospital, Romford, RM7 0AG, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

Consultant Kalyani Gorrela, [e-mail], 01708435000

Details

Date posted: 28 September 2026

Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade: Consultant

Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 162-M7402-G

Job locations: Anaes Medical Staff, Queen & King George Hospital, Romford, RM7 0AG, United Kingdom

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