Employer: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Croydon University Hospital
Town: Croydon
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 + London Weighting + on calls 3% cat A
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Locum Consultant Anaesthetist with interest in Obstetric Anaesthesia
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow.
Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people’s homes all across the borough.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where every one of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action – our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.
Job overview
We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Locum Consultant to join our growing department. The successful applicant will be appointed to deliver obstetric anaesthesia on our busy and dynamic labour ward, provide emergency anaesthesia when on-call and deliver elective work based in their other subspecialty interests.
The Department of Anaesthesia is dedicated to delivering high quality, patient centred care for all of our patients. It is an exciting time to join our enthusiastic and forward thinking department as we open our brand new Intensive Care Unit, build two new dedicated paediatric theatres, replaced our anaesthetic machines with state of the art technology and get our services recognised through the Anaesthesia Clinical Accreditation Service (ACSA). We have an excellent reputation for teaching and training, make a huge contribution to national research projects, are represented in senior management roles within the Trust and have a strong commitment to quality improvement.
Main duties of the job
The Locum Consultant in Obstetric Anaesthesia position is a replacement post in order to maintain the minimum safe staffing requirements for service provision.
The remit of the post holder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care of Croydon patients, and to provide and develop anaesthetic services to Croydon Health Services patients. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the development and delivery of inpatient, outpatient and emergency work.
The successful applicant will provide strong visible presence across the organisation, be a role model of good leadership and effective communication at individual, team, directorate and whole organisation level.
Working for our organisation
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description/person specification for more details.
For further details and informal visits please contact:
We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as there is an under-representation at senior level within Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.
We offer many flexible and part-time working opportunities and all of our substantive & Fixed Term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, including parking, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme. We value diversity and promote equality of opportunity.
DETAILS ON APPLICATION PROCESS
Please note that no job offer or volunteer placement will be made until satisfactory references have been received. You are asked to provide email addresses for all referees, and ensure their accuracy before submitting your application.
In submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process, if applicable, should you be appointed.
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Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
If you decide to apply for this post, but do not hear back from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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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