Senior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia

St George's University Hospitals; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent hospital in London is inviting applications for a Senior Clinical Fellow post, starting in February 2026. This position offers exposure across various specialties including airway, trauma, cardiac, and obstetrics, and aims to enhance fellows' clinical skills. The initial contract is for 6 months, with the potential for extension.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have a final FRCA or equivalent.
• An interest in developing obstetrics as a career aim is required.

Responsibilities

• Gain experience with difficult airways and advanced airway techniques.
• Deliver high quality preoperative assessment and anaesthetic care.
• Provide trauma care in emergency settings.

Job description

Overview

Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow post to start in February 2026. All posts are for an initial 6 month contract, however following review can be extended to 12 months. The post can be placed in the following areas: Vascular, Regional, Perioperative, Airway, Trauma, Neurology, Obstetrics, Paediatrics & Cardiac. Please see attached documents for details on each specialised area. The department is also ESRA Approved Training Centre. Anaesthetic Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-bMGtv3Rzk

Main duties of the job

• Airway - This Fellowship will help fellows to gain experience and confidence in dealing with patients with difficult airways and different advanced airway techniques.
• Preoperative - To deliver high quality preoperative assessment, investigation and management of ASA 1-4 patients for elective and emergency surgery. To deliver high quality individualised anaesthetic care to ASA 1-3 [E] patients, focusing on optimising patient experience and outcome.
• Trauma - St George's offers excellent exposure to major trauma both within the emergency department and theatre environment. There is opportunity to undertake the trauma team leader course which is run in-house and then do sessions in the ED doing supervised trauma team leading.
• Cardiac - Fellows will have exposure to a wide variety of cardiac surgical, thoracic, large airways and cardiology procedures.
• Regional - As one of London's leading teaching hospitals, we are able to offer our patients a wide range of Regional Blocks. St George's Department of Anaesthesia is very proactive in promoting and teaching regional anaesthesia and interventional pain medicine procedures under ultrasound guidance. There are also opportunities to visit SWLEOC (South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre).
• Obs - This post is designed for an anaesthetist with the final FRCA or equivalent, an interest in developing obstetrics as an ongoing career aim and provides opportunity to work at a senior level in a busy high-risk obstetric unit.

With over 9000 staff, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in Southwest London. In 2022 St George's became part of the George's Epsom St Helier group (GESH) with neighbouring Epsom, St Helier Trust to form one of the largest hospital and healthcare groups in the country, providing high quality healthcare for the population of South West London and Surrey borders. Our main site, St George's Hospital - one of the country\'s principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George\'s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

A number of our services are members of established clinical networks which bring together clinicians from a range of healthcare providers working to improve the quality of services for patients. These include the South London Cardiac and Stroke Network and the South West London and Surrey Trauma Network, for which St George's Hospital is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and major trauma centre.