Senior Consultant Anaesthetist - Pain Management Specialist

NHS Jobs; Wigan; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Consultant Anaesthetist with an interest in Pain Management to provide elective and emergency perioperative anaesthetic care and to lead pain management initiatives.

The role includes governance, teaching, and working within a multidisciplinary team. You will contribute to chronic pain provision through assessment clinics and clinic-based interventions, and help shape care pathways per NICE and related guidance.

Responsibilities

• To provide elective and emergency perioperative anaesthetic management
• To maintain appropriate knowledge and skills to deliver anaesthesia
• To participate in Governance and Appraisal processes
• To participate in teaching medical and allied health professionals
• To work with other members of the multidisciplinary team
• To provide assessment and follow-up clinics for our Secondary Pain Service
• To provide pain clinic interventions
• To contribute to the running of this service as guided by the service lead.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team and support the running of the Pain Management Programme by appropriate referrals and delivering sessions to the group as needed.
• To understand and contribute to appropriate care pathways available for patients in the Pain Clinic and signpost accordingly.
• To work with the Lead Nurse, Clinical Lead or Senior Clinicians to ensure appropriate medical care pathways are in place, consistent with the pain clinic model for patients in treatment.
• To understand and follow the commissioned care pathways for patients ensuring appropriate treatments underpinned by professional evidence and guidance. (e.g. NICE guidelines, Royal Colleges, MHRA, Greater Manchester Commissioning Guidelines, GRFT)
• To have medical responsibility, in partnership with the Trusts medical leads for all patients under the care of the pain service.

Job description

NHS Jobs in Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Consultant Anaesthetist with an interest in Pain Management to provide elective and emergency perioperative anaesthetic care and to lead pain management initiatives.

The role includes governance, teaching, and working within a multidisciplinary team. You will contribute to chronic pain provision through assessment clinics and clinic-based interventions, and help shape care pathways per NICE and related guidance.