Consultant in General Anaesthesia

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Consultant Anaesthetist to provide high-quality care across multiple sites. You will work within a supportive environment and contribute to emergency and elective services while also mentoring junior staff. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development within a vibrant NHS Trust.

Qualifications

• Expertise in anaesthesia subspecialties and emergency care qualifications.
• Evidence of GMC standards for clinical supervision.
• Experience with robotic surgery preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide anaesthetic services across multiple hospitals as part of a team.
• Attend to A&E and acute medicine to enhance patient care.
• Participate in on-call rota to ensure emergency service availability.

Skills

Ability to offer expert clinical opinion

Ability to teach clinical skills

Ability to organise and prioritise workload

Education

Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise

CCT or CESR in Anaesthesia

FRCA or equivalent diploma

Job description

The Anaesthetic department provides services to three sites - Worcestershire Royal Hospital (WRH), Alexandra Hospital, and Kidderminster Treatment Centre (KTC), encompassing all major specialities with a strong countywide working ethos. Recent surgical reconfiguration means most elective surgery will be delivered on the Alexandra Hospital site, while the majority of emergency, trauma and obstetric work will be on the WRH site. KTC functions as a day-case and short-stay surgical unit.

The Anaesthetic department is renowned for providing a highly supportive working environment both for consultant colleagues and for trainees, for whom we endeavour to provide the highest quality training opportunities. The trust runs a cross specialty mentoring scheme for new consultants, provides monthly well-being webinars, and has open access to Occupational Health support. In addition, the successful applicant will be provided with a mentor from within the anaesthetic department.

Potential applicants are encouraged to visit and to seek further details on the operational aspects of the department.

Interview date: Tuesday 19th August 2025

Main duties of the job

The post will encompass a variety of anaesthetic subspecialties, with on-call commitments at both Worcestershire Royal Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch. On call work will cover emergency theatres at the Alexandra Hospital and emergency theatres and obstetrics at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. Further details can be found in job description and person specification below.

All candidates must be eligible for full GMC registration and either already be on the Specialist Register or be within 6 months of receiving their CCT in Anaesthesia at the time of interview. FRCA (or equivalent) is an essential qualification for this post.

On-call frequency 1:14, Category A, 3.0% availability supplement.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

• Being honest and open
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.

• A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
• The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.
• The post-holder will provide support to the A& E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital. The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.
• The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings.
• The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trusts and departmental objectives.
• The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post.
• The Trust would expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team.
• The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Anaesthesia
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Expertise in sub-specialty

Desirable

• Special Interest training in General, Urology, Gynaecology surgery
• Special Interest training in Airway Management
• Special Interest training in Vascular Anaesthesia
• Special Interest training or significant experience in Peri-operative medicine
• Fellowship or significant experience in regional anaesthesia
• Experience in robotic surgery

Teaching and Educational Experience

Essential

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates
• Evidence of achieving GMC standards to be recognised as a clinical supervisor
• Active regular participation in teaching and training of medical and para-medical colleagues

Desirable

• Ability to supervise postgraduate research
• Formal educational qualification
• Life support course instructor

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Anaesthesia (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via
• CCT or CESR (CP)
• CESR or
• European Community Rights
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent
• FRCA or equivalent diploma

Desirable

• Higher degree
• Additional degree or post-graduate qualification (MRCP, MD, etc)
• Postgraduate prizes
• ALS, ATLS, APLS, EPLS provider status
• Experience with anaesthesia for major urological procedures, including Robotic surgery

Management and Leadership Experience

Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities
• Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit
• Clear understanding of local/wider NHS management structures

Desirable

• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate
• Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making
• Management/leadership roles in training or previous posts
• Management/leadership qualification
• Implementing evidence-based change to improve patient care

Other Requirements

Essential

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the job and return to the hospital within 30 minutes when on call

Desirable

• Member of medical indemnity organisation

Professional Development

Essential

• Evidence of regular commitment to continuing and relevant medical education

Clinical Governance and Reasearch Experience

Essential

• Consistent engagement with clinical audit and quality improvement
• Insightful reflective practice
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative

Desirable

• Presentation at regional and national meetings
• Publications in peer reviewed journal
• Significant involvement in clinical research
• Publications in relevant peer- reviewed journals in the last 5 years
• Evidence of having undertaken original research

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