We are a large and friendly department with over 65 Consultants, 11 SASs, up to 35 Trainees and post CCT Fellows. We are very proud to be a MDHU Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit with 4 Military Consultants and a variable number of Military trainees of various grades. We have 4 qualified AAs in a bespoke programme designed for the benefit of, and led by the department. The department also hosts 3.5 WTE Acute Pain Nurses, Peri-Operative team, 20 WTE Pre Operative Assessment Nurses and 4 Administrative and Clerical staff. As a department we have a reputation for being cohesive, innovative and providing excellent education and support to our trainees, Trust Grades and Consultants. We were delighted to be one of the first Departments in the UK to achieve ACSA accreditation from the RCOA and reaccredited again in 2023. We have also had a successful Getting it Right First Time GIRFT visit and were particularly commended for our Surgery School and our Surgical High Care Unit. The hospital has 30 operating theatres and 5 remote suites where anaesthetic services are delivered. The department provides anaesthetic services to all sites in the Trust and supports subspecialties including: Major General: Colorectal, Upper GI (including Oesophagectomies), Bariatrics, Gynaecology, Urology. Including robotic surgery (4 robotic theatres) Major Head and Neck and ENT (including free flap surgery) Orthopaedics, including significant amount of regional anaesthesia Renal transplant and Renal Vascular access surgery Plastics Paediatrics Obstetrics Pain Non-theatre: Interventional Radiology, CT/ MRI, Gastro/Endoscopy and Cardiology. Periop Medicine: Anaesthetic Preassessment clinic, dedicated Bariatric/Upper GI clinic and MDT, CPET, daily Surgical High-Care Ward round and Surgery School The department runs numerous courses and particularly prides itself on its reputation within the region for teaching. We run a nationally-recognised difficult airway course PAWS, numerous simulator courses we have a high-fidelity Simulation Suite on site, Regional Anaesthesia courses and exam preparation courses. Our Intensive Care Unit is a separate 24 bedded department within the same Care Group and 7 of the 14 Consultant Intensivists have anaesthetic sessions. The Post The job plan for this post is for 10.25 PAs with 7.5 DCC Direct Clinical Care, typically 3 clinical days per week and initially 2 SPA plus participation in the Consultant on-call rota 0.75 PA. Typical job plan comprise a mixture of fixed and float sessions. The proposed timetable for this job is attached but the exact sessions including sub specialties and working days will be reviewed and altered by agreement with the successful candidate prior to commencement in the post. On-call The department operates a 2 tier Consultant led on call rota. This is Category A on call. Each tier has a frequency of 1 in 40 giving a combined frequency of 1 in 20. The second on call consultant works in the emergency theatres during the evenings approx. 17:30 20:30 and is then second on call from home, where they are very infrequently called. At the weekend the second on call consultant works in the emergency theatres between 07:45 - 17:00 and is then on call from home. The first on call consultant is the first port of call from home. Commencement of duties These posts are currently vacant and the appointee will be required to take up the post no later than six months from the date of the offer of an appointment, unless a special agreement has been made between the appointee and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. If you consider it unlikely that you will be able to take up the appointment within such a period, you are advised to point this out at the time of your application