Consultants in Anaesthesia

Whittington Health; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated Consultants in General Anaesthesia to join their dynamic anaesthetic team. This role involves delivering high-quality anaesthetic care for a variety of surgical procedures, including general surgery, orthopaedics, and gynaecology. Candidates will have the opportunity to tailor their lists to their clinical interests, ensuring a fulfilling work-life balance. The organization values diversity and is committed to providing an inclusive environment for all staff. If you are passionate about anaesthesia and eager to contribute to a leading healthcare provider, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Completion of an Anaesthetic training programme.
• Professional experience of working in the NHS.
• Knowledge in a wide range of anaesthetic techniques.

Responsibilities

• Perform a 10 PA job with approx. 8 PAs for direct clinical care.
• Participate in undergraduate teaching and support research activities.
• Maintain high standards of anaesthetic skills across specialties.

Skills

Anaesthetic techniques

Clinical governance

Teaching ability

Team leadership

Education

Full registration with GMC

FRCA or equivalent

Specialist Register for Anaesthesia

Job description

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Job overview

The Whittington Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) is inviting applications for the position of Consultants in General Anaesthesia. These roles include both a replacement due to retirement and a newly created position.

We are looking to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic consultants eager to join the anaesthetic team at Whittington Health. The posts are required for the delivery of high quality general anaesthetic care for patients attending for variety of surgical procedures at the hospital.

We provide surgical services for general surgery, orthopaedics, gynaecology and urology. We are a centre for bariatric surgery and perform approximately 200 cases per annum. Obstetric Anaesthesia cover is provided for the Maternity Department for approximately 3600 deliveries per year. There is, in addition, some paediatric work.

There will be some flexibility in the type of lists performed, and these lists can be tailored to an individual’s preference and clinical interests. However, our main area of need is for the pre-operative assessment clinic (POA) and spinal surgery.

Candidates must be on the GMC’s Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview.

Interview date: 12 June 2025.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties of the post

The post holder will be performing a 10 PA (programmed activity) job, with approx. 8 PAs for direct clinical care, with 2.0 PAs given for supporting programmed activities initially. The on-call commitment is 1:12 (= 0.5PAs). Consideration will be given to increasing SPA: DCC allocation at job planning and review of non-clinical responsibilities.

There will be some flexibility in the type of lists performed, and these lists can be tailored to an individual’s preference and clinical interests. Flexibility may be required in the event of last minute staff shortages to ensure adequate skill mix and cover for lists.

The timetable and commitment would be appropriately amended for an individual who wished to work part time, in line with national agreements.

The theatre sessions will include fixed and flexible lists, which are used to cover consultant leave, urgent lists (utilised for cancer surgery and other urgent cases) or trauma and emergency lists.

We are particularly interested in consultants who can work flexibly and adapt to new working practices. This can involve, for example, a session dedicated to pre-operative assessment unit and sessions as “consultant of the day”, in a troubleshooting role, ensuring adequate anaesthetic cover for scheduled lists and emergency procedures on a given day.

The successful candidate would therefore be expected to possess, and maintain to a high standard, a wide range of anaesthetic skills appropriate to all specialities represented at Whittington Health. It is expected that the post holders will adhere to the GMC good conduct and professional standards, as well as those set by the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Anaesthetists for the speciality.

Supporting PAs include time for teaching and training, continuing professional development (CPD), audit and governance activity, personal management including job planning and appraisal and contributions to departmental management. Any timetable agreed with the successful applicants will be kept under regular review and will be subject to annual job plan review to ensure it remains within the 10 PA contract.

The appointee will also be expected to play a role in educating postgraduate doctors and nurses in all specialties. The successful candidates for this post will be expected to participate in undergraduate teaching, including acting as an undergraduate examiner, and support and facilitate research activities as appropriate.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full registration with GMC with licence to practice
• FRCA (or equivalent)
• On the Specialist Register for Anaesthesia or within 6 months of completion of UK specialist training (at time of interview)

Clinical skills and experience

• Completion of an Anaesthetic training programme
• Professional experience of working in the NHS
• Knowledge and skills in a wide range of anaesthetic techniques and procedures appropriate to the Whittington Hospital
• Additional sub-speciality interest in Bariatric anaesthesia or other area aligned to Whittington service provision.
• Experience of working in a non-UK health system
• Relevant experience outside anaesthesia
• ATLS/APLS

Teaching

• An interest and proven ability to teach medical students, medical staff in training and non-medical staff
• Possession of teaching qualification / attendance at recognised teaching course.
• Life support course instructor
• Achieving GMC standards to be recognised as an Educational Supervisor
• Understanding of local and NHS-wide management structures
• Previous management/leadership roles
• Evidence of the ability to lead a team

Clinical Governance

• Demonstration of consistent effective participation in medical audit and quality improvement
• Evidence of implementing evidence based change to improve patient care.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

• Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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