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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated Consultant Anaesthetist to join a well-established Anaesthetics Department in North West England. This role offers the chance to work within a modern and expanding service that provides comprehensive anaesthetic, critical care, maternity, perioperative, and pain management services across a broad range of surgical specialities.
The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop a subspecialty interest that complements the department's existing expertise while maintaining a broad anaesthetic practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join a clinically led organisation where consultants play a key role in service development, education, governance, and leadership.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality anaesthetic care for elective and emergency surgical patients
• Deliver anaesthetic services across a broad range of surgical specialities
• Participate in the consultant on-call rota for anaesthesia, intensive care, and maternity services
• Contribute to perioperative assessment and optimisation of patients
• Support intensive care and high dependency services when required
• Participate in obstetric anaesthesia and labour ward services, including epidural provision
• Provide clinical leadership within multidisciplinary teams
• Participate actively in clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement activities
• Support the development of departmental services and patient pathways
• Supervise and teach junior medical staff, trainees, medical students, and allied healthcare professionals
• Maintain continuing professional development and appraisal requirements
• Contribute to departmental educational programmes and governance meetings
• Work flexibly across sites to maintain a broad range of anaesthetic skills and clinical experience.

Clinical Services

The department provides anaesthetic support for a wide range of specialities, including:
• General Surgery
• Trauma & Orthopaedics
• Urology
• Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• Ophthalmology
• ENT Surgery
• Maxillofacial Surgery
• Vascular Surgery
• Dentistry
• Day Case Surgery
• Emergency Surgery
• Critical Care Medicine
• Acute and Chronic Pain Services
• Maternity Services
• Pre-Assessment Clinics

Consultants are encouraged to maintain competencies across multiple specialities while developing areas of particular interest.

Critical Care & Intensive Care Services

The successful candidate will have opportunities to contribute to well-established critical care services, including:
• Consultant-led Intensive Care Units
• High Dependency Care
• Critical Care Outreach Services
• Advanced Organ Support
• Ventilated Patient Transfers
• Multidisciplinary Critical Care Teams
• Medical and Surgical Critical Care Management

The service delivers comprehensive intensive care support with strong consultant involvement and modern critical care facilities.

Obstetric Anaesthesia

The department provides:
• 24/7 Obstetric Anaesthesia Cover
• Labour Epidural Services
• Elective and Emergency Caesarean Sections
• Antenatal Anaesthetic Assessment Services
• Consultant-led Obstetric Anaesthesia Support

Candidates should have recent experience in both obstetric anaesthesia and maternity services.

Teaching, Training & Professional Development

Education is a major strength of the department, with opportunities to:
• Teach undergraduate medical students
• Supervise postgraduate trainees
• Participate in regional training programmes
• Deliver departmental tutorials and educational sessions
• Contribute to FRCA teaching programmes
• Become an Educational Supervisor
• Participate in trainee recruitment and assessment processes
• Support multidisciplinary learning and simulation activities

Consultants are expected to play an active role in the educational development of trainees and junior colleagues.

Clinical Governance & Quality Improvement

The successful candidate will be expected to participate fully in:
• Clinical Audit
• Governance Meetings
• Morbidity and Mortality Reviews
• Service Improvement Projects
• Patient Safety Initiatives
• Appraisal and Revalidation Activities
• Continuing Professional Development

The department maintains a strong culture of quality improvement and evidence-based practice.

Person Specification

Requirements

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practise
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) or equivalent qualification
• Completion of Higher Specialist Training in Anaesthetics or equivalent recognised competency
• Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in Anaesthetics, or within six months of entry at the interview date
• Recent experience in Intensive Care Medicine and Maternity Anaesthesia at ST6/ST7 or Consultant level
• High level of competence across a broad range of anaesthetic practice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Audit processes
• Commitment to teaching, training, and professional development
• Ability to organise workload efficiently
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to participate fully in emergency and on-call commitments
• Ability to travel to meet service requirements.

Desirable

• Additional postgraduate qualifications
• Higher degrees or relevant specialist training
• Instructor status in ALS, ATLS, or APLS
• Evidence of ongoing CPD in Intensive Care Medicine
• Teaching or educational qualifications
• Experience developing educational resources
• Experience in District General Hospital practice
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience
• Leadership and management experience
• Interest in regional or national professional roles.
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