Consultant in Anaesthesia with interest in Specialist Surgery

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a Consultant in Anaesthesia with interest in Specialist Surgery. The role involves delivering high-quality anaesthesia for complex surgeries and participating in teaching and clinical governance activities. This position offers a chance to work in a major teaching hospital with a diverse team.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently at consultant level.
• Evidence of decisions at consultant level and managing complex clinical problems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality anaesthesia for major surgeries.
• Participate in teaching clinical students and training junior doctors.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Time Management

Education

Medical degree FRCA or equivalent

CCT in Anaesthesia or equivalent

Job description

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Consultant in Anaesthesia with interest in Specialist Surgery

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Anaesthetics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA's) Job ref 321-MS-CON-7185790-S5

Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/06/2025 23:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel .

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

The new consultants are required to join the oncall groups of anaesthetists at the John Radcliffe hospital, the Nuffield Orthopaedics centre and the Churchill hospital sites which are part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. These posts are replacement posts following retirements. These posts would suit anaesthetists seeking to have a consultant career in a major teaching hospital with considerable expertise in major cancer surgery, complex vascular procedures, major trauma, orthopaedics and plastics trauma surgery.

The Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics is one of the largest departments in the country. The department is well known for having a friendly, diverse and inclusive Anaesthetics team, supported by outstanding surgical colleagues. The department provides a comprehensive elective and emergency service for a wide range of surgical and diagnostics specialties.

Main duties of the job

The focus of this post is the delivery of high-quality anaesthesia for major cancer surgery, complex vascular procedures, major trauma, orthopaedics and plastics trauma surgery. There are in addition flexible sessions in the posts allowing the post-holder to maintain an interest and skills in other areas of anaesthesia. Out of hours the post-holders will be on call to provide emergency cover for general surgery, trauma, specialist surgery including vascular procedures, plastics, ENT, stroke thrombectomy and transplantation depending upon their specialist interests and clinical experience.

Working for our organisation

Please see attached job description, person specification and job plan for further information about this position.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

The focus of these post is the delivery of high-quality anaesthesia for major cancer surgery, complex vascular procedures, major trauma, orthopaedics and plastics trauma surgery. There are in addition flexible sessions in the posts allowing the post-holder to maintain an interest and skills in other areas of anaesthesia. Out of hours the post-holders will be on call to provide emergency cover for general surgery, trauma, specialist surgery including vascular procedures, plastics, ENT, stroke thrombectomy and transplantation depending upon their specialist interests and clinical experience.

Teaching/Research

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital trust, and the post-holders will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.

Clinical Governance

The post-holders will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.

Personal and Professional Development

The post-holders will be required to keep fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust through Appraisal.

Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.

Management

The post-holders will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. They will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical service under the direction of the lead clinician and/or directorate chair.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

• Medical degree FRCA or equivalent
• CCT in Anaesthesia (or equivalent) or within 6 months at the date of interview Advanced training or fellowship in the sub-specialist clinical area
• ALS/ATLS/APLS provider

Experience

• To be able to work independently at consultant level and perform as a member of a team.
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
• Advanced training or fellowship, or experience in the sub -specialist clinical area.
• Evidence of completion of additional training in other relevant sub-specialty
• Membership of relevant Specialist Societies or Associations.
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level

Skills and knowledge

• Excellent leadership skills
• Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital
• Effective administrative and time management skills
• Knowledge of the NHS and the role of Clinical Networks
• Understanding of the complexities of working in a regional referral centre
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
• Good written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Evidence of research activity
• Training in clinical management
• Experience in implementing change
• Peer reviewed publications

Other requirements

• Full registration and license to practice
• To live within 10 miles of the trust (unless negotiated otherwise). Full Driving licence

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.

All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

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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.

Domestic / catering / porteringservices at theJohn Radcliffe Hospitalare provided byMitie.

Domestic / catering / portering / maintenance engineerservices at theChurchill HospitalandNuffield Orthopaedic Centreare provided byG4S.

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