Locum Consultant in Anaesthetics

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic Consultant in Anaesthetics to join our team at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. The successful candidate will provide high-quality clinical care, contribute to service development, and educate and train resident staff.

We are a department that provides a consultant-led service to dynamic surgical teams seeking to lead surgical innovation. Our department prides itself in allowing each individual to develop and bring their own areas of expertise and interest to what is already a very diverse mix of special interests. These include the more conventional areas such as Royal College examiner, deanery roles, quality improvement etc; but have expanded to medical examiner roles, mortality reviews, clinical risk, project management, ethics and management roles within the trust.

There is increasing demand for anaesthetic support for procedures away from theatres, with endoscopy, interventional radiology and a Vanguard Ophthalmology theatre being at the forefront of expansion recently. These are relatively new areas of demand, and along with an expansion of elective obstetrics and obstetric clinics offers a new consultant niche area to organise and streamline. We are also expanding our Pre-Assessment service including a greater provision of consultant-led high-risk anaesthetic clinics. We are also seeking to introduce an enhanced perioperative care service, to provide an improvement pathway for patients post operatively, and it would be expected this role would contribute significantly to this.