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Main area: Anaesthetics
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (on-call 1 in 12/13)
Job ref: 426-704-25EG
Site: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Town: King's Lynn
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent Consultant Anaesthetist to join our team. This role will service elective and emergency lists at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site in the Main Theatres, the Day Surgery Unit and the Sandringham Unit.
In this role, you will collaborate with Consultant Anaesthetists to ensure comprehensive and coordinated high quality anaesthetic services that meet the requirements of the Trust’s objectives.
Time is allocated for supporting professional activities and these will be scheduled by mutual agreement with the successful candidate.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
* To provide a consultant-level anaesthetic service for elective and emergency services
* To provide high quality patient care, minimising risks and maintaining patient safety in accordance with the GMC’s Good Medical Practice
* To help in the delivery of effective services within the agreed budget
* To co-operate with other departments and agencies to meet the objectives of the Anaesthetic Department
* To accept to work flexibly within a nominally fixed timetable
Organisational / Managerial
* To supervise junior staff as appropriate
* To provide leadership and health-management skills
* To maintain the Directorate principles of effective multi-disciplinary team working
* To ensure personal knowledge of, and compliance with, Trust and departmental protocol
Teaching
* To help provide training, supervision and career development to junior doctors of all grades in the Anaesthetic Department
* To contribute to the education of medical and nursing students, paramedics and trainees in other specialities as required. We have recently increased our teaching commitments to the medical schools of Cambridge University and the University of East Anglia
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this exciting opportunity, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Registration
* MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
* FRCA or equivalent medical qualification.
* Entry on GMC Specialist Register for anaesthesia (CCT) or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of specialist training at the time of interview. If not eligible for entry on to the Specialist Register, must be able to provide strong evidence of meeting CESR eligibility criteria.
Experience
* Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Anaesthetics.
* At least seven years of providing obstetric anaesthesia.
* At least seven years of providing emergency / on call anaesthesia.
* At least seven years of providing major trauma anaesthesia.
* At least seven years of providing resuscitation care.
* At least two years of providing critical care medicine.
Skills, Abilities and Training
* Formal training and experience in management relevant to anaesthesia in the NHS or equivalent training or experience elsewhere, for example Head of Department, Governance Lead or similar lead role.
* Experience of teaching trainees to a standard required by the RCoA (with evidence of suitable teaching / supervision qualification).
* Ability to supervise and initiate quality improvement projects by trainees and to develop trainee presentations at national and international level.
* Ability to deliver teaching for both undergraduates and postgraduates.
* Evidence of affecting clinical governance.
* Experience of various audits in which you played lead role, together with contributions to service improvement and risk management projects.
Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).
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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
* Flexible working opportunities.
* Free counselling service.
* Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access.
* Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause.
Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.
Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.
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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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