Locum Consultant Anaesthetist

NHS; Romford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS is seeking a Locum Consultant Anaesthetist to join a dynamic team in Romford. This full-time position offers a supportive environment for skill development while covering maternity leave. The role involves responsibilities such as providing anaesthesia and training junior staff, contributing to the department's educational goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years working in anaesthetics, with 2 years in UK hospitals.
• Full and specialist registration with GMC or eligibility within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre-operative assessments and anaesthesia.
• Introduce and apply new techniques in anaesthesia.
• Support junior medical staff and continue personal education.

Skills

Anaesthesia

Communication

Teaching

Education

MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent

Higher Medical Degree (MD or MSc)

Job description

Go back Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Locum Consultant Anaesthetist

The closing date is 06 July 2025

The Trust seeks to appoint a Locum 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.

We are looking for highly skilled locum anaesthetic consultant to cover maternity leave, who wants to join our forward-thinking team and make a real difference in the NHS. We offer a supportive and stimulating environment where you can develop your skills and career.

The post is whole time post of 10 PA's and offers 9 programmed activities (PAs), and 1 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 totake a share of the general work of the department, including cover for consultant colleagueswhere practical.

Main duties of the job

The Department of Anaesthesia is committed to continuing its teaching role and considerableimportance is attached to the support of the junior medical staff in the Department. It isessential that the applicants be committed to his or her own continuing medical education andprofessional development.

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 peri-operative assessment. In addition to duties within subspeciality, the appointee will be required to provide anaesthesia for adult patients in all specialties as appropriate to his/her training and experience.

Please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification formore information.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatresat our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from ourWomen's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hubin Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 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 flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure yourapplication accurately reflects where you match them. For further informationregarding the role please read the attached Job Description and PersonSpecification.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Abi Fadero, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708435000 ext. 4456

Person Specification

Qualifications/Experience

• MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent
• Full and specialist registration with the General Medical Council (GMC), or eligible for registration within six months of interview. This must include at least 8 years working in the speciality of anaesthetics. Of these 8 years of Anaesthesia (at least 2 years' experience must be within hospitals in the UK). At least 1 referee must be an Anaesthesia consultant.
• Five year's experience in undertaking anaesthesia in the UK.
• Higher Medical Degree (MD or MSc)
• Six month advanced general training
• Record of regular attendance at National Specialty meetings

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.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust