Consultant in Anaesthesia with a specialist interest in Pain Medicine

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Chesham Bois; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits in a vibrant Anaesthetic, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care department. This full-time Consultant role offers a chance to contribute to a waiting list recovery program while working alongside a dedicated team of professionals. The position promises a diverse range of responsibilities, including outpatient clinics and theatre pain treatments, fostering a collaborative environment that values continuous learning and development. Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider committed to outstanding patient care and community support, where your expertise will make a meaningful difference.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlement

Pension scheme

Access to NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and license to practice required.
• Experience in anaesthesia at consultant level or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Join a team of consultants in a rapidly expanding department.
• Engage in teaching of trainees and nurses.

Skills

Management training and experience

Good personal and interpersonal skills

Good spoken and written English

Experience of teaching health care workers

Empathy and good listening skills

Ability to cope under pressure

Education

MB, BS or equivalent

FRCA or full equivalence

FFPMRCA

CCT holder in Anaesthesia

Tools

Clinical audit experience

Computing skills

Job description

Employer heading

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

1. provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
2. nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
3. regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
4. deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join our vibrant and thriving Anaesthetic, Pain Medicine and Critical Care department as a full-time substantive Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain medicine. This is a new post arising from a departmental expansion to address the challenges of the waiting list recovery program.

Applicants will be expected to be on the specialist register for anaesthesia and have completed Stage 3 or Advanced training in pain medicine. FFPMRCA or equivalence is highly desirable.

Applicants are especially welcomed with an additional anaesthetic interest in preoperative assessment, trauma, orthopaedic and regional anaesthesia, obstetrics, emergency anaesthesia, acute pain and ophthalmology.

The successful applicant will join a team of around 46 consultants (including 4 pain consultants and 14 intensivists) and 1 locum consultant in this rapidly expanding department.

Planned AAC Interview Date is Monday 19 May 2025.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be expected to work at Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe Hospital and Amersham. The appointee will be expected to undertake a 10.49 PA contract with the opportunity to increase to 11 PA contract. Initially 1.5 SPAs for supporting activities are allocated for new consultants, 1 core SPA to maintain appraisal, revalidation and statutory/mandatory training obligations and 0.5 SPA for initial service or personal development ‘investment’.

The pain medicine post will have 2-3 sessions in chronic pain medicine joining 4 consultants, an associate specialist and specialty doctor. The pain sessions will be split between outpatient clinics, outpatient procedure sessions based in Amersham hospital and theatre pain treatments currently based in Wycombe hospital. There is a spinal MDT as well as chronic pain MDT. Consultants are expected to engage in teaching of trainees and nurses. Service rearrangements may also occur in the future to include use of theatre or outpatient facilities at Stoke Mandeville.

Job plans are reviewed annually in line with contractual requirements.

Working for our organisation

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

1. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
2. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
3. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

1. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
2. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
3. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

1. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
2. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
3. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full breakdown of the job description and main responsibilities can be found in the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education, qualifications & training

1. MB, BS or equivalent
2. FRCA or full equivalence
3. FFPMRCA
4. CCT holder in Anaesthesia or Registration on GMC specialist Register in Anaesthetics. Or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview.

Experience

1. General training in Anaesthesia to consultant level or equivalent (at least one year NHS experience)
2. Ability to make decisions at Consultant level.
3. Evidence of completion of (or equivalent) in Advanced training or Stage 3 in Pain Medicine
4. Evidence of completion of (or equivalent) in Advanced training in other desirable anaesthetic subspecialties e.g. obstetrics, pre-operative assessment, regional anaesthesia

Desirable criteria

1. Extensive years WTE
2. Post CCT experience

Skills, knowledge & personal attributes

1. Management training and experience
2. Good personal and interpersonal skills
3. Good spoken and written English. Good communication skills
4. Experience of teaching health care workers, doctors in training and undergraduates
5. Experience of clinical audit
6. Empathy, good listening skills
7. Patience, good social skills
8. Evidence of good team working, ability to cooperate, persuade and negotiate within a senior clinical management team
9. Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS.
10. Ability to cope under pressure

Desirable criteria

1. Evidence of good leadership skills
2. Ability to organise a team and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of a Consultant
3. Computing skills
4. Knowledge of the Government’s agenda for modernisation of the NHS
5. Communication skills training
6. Experience of Educational supervision
7. Training in teaching
8. Published audit or research
9. Ability to change and adapt

Other Requirements

1. Full GMC registration and license to practice, with no conditions in place
2. Ability to travel to and between sites

Trust 'CARE' Values

1. Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
2. Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
3. Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued
4. Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative

PPE requirements:

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations

If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.