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Substantive Paediatric Consultant Anaesthetist CW

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

CQC: Good

London

Salary

£105,504 – £139,882

Posted

7 weeks ago

About the role

We are seeking enthusiastic, motivated, and forward‑thinking consultants to join our Paediatric Anaesthesia team. This appointment offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to a well‑established department while further enhancing the range of skills and specialist interests within the consultant body.

The successful candidate will provide anaesthetic care across paediatric and general theatre lists, with additional involvement in burns theatre work. They will also participate in the Paediatric Anaesthetic on‑call rota, which is currently 1:12 and band A. The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, support service development, and contribute to high‑quality patient care, teaching, and departmental governance.

Post may include Saturday activity within the job plan.

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Provide High Quality Care to Patients

The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration.

Substantive Paediatric Consultant Anaesthetist CW

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.

Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.

Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.

Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times.

Develop clinical practice through self-reflection and learning from experience, application of research into practice and active contribution within the multi-disciplinary team.

Research, Teaching and Training

Provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Service Director. To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.

Responsible for teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues.

Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

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12.1 A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee, Service Director and Divisional Medical Director including relevant general managers, on behalf of the Medical Director; this should be done within 3 months of starting the post. It is the post holder’s responsibility, working with the Service Director to ensure that the job plan reflects an average timetable of activity. However, consultants are senior professionals, and variation in activity is therefore to be expected.

12.2 The post holder and Divisional Medical Director/Service Director will review the Job Plan annually with relevant general managers. Either may propose amendment of the job plan. The expectation is that the Trust and the post holder will work together to benefit the patient and individuals will view the job plan as a guide which may be amended in line with service changes. The formulation of a job plan should not prevent a flexible approach to work to ensure the efficient running of the department.

12.3 The Trust will aim wherever possible to keep the job plan activity to a minimum consistent with achieving the best quality patient care and ensuring that members of staff work in accordance with the European Working Time Regulations. Job plans in excess of 10 PAs will be subject to annual review to ensure that all activity contained in the job plan is clinically and organisationally necessary.

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.

We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

· We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers

· We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds

· We deliver a baby every 50 minutes

· We operate on a patient every 16 minutes

· We do 50 imaging procedures each hour

· We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life

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Person specification

Essential

Putting patients first
Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care
FRCA or equivalent
CCT in Anaesthesia or equivalent (on, or within 6 months of inclusion on, Specialist Register at time of interview)
Advanced Training in Paediatric Anaesthesia
Experience with neonatal anaesthesia
Experience in Burns anaesthesia
Experience in high-risk surgery for emergencies and ortho-trauma
Highly organised, self-motivated and committed to personal development
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work with colleagues in a team and delegate appropriately
Involvement in Governance and patient safety
Understanding of and involvement in service development

Desirable

Management / Leadership Qualification
Higher Degree
Education Qualification
Regional Anaesthesia
Previous consultant-level experience
Track record of achieving sustained change through Quality Improvement processes
Experience in delivering an education programme