OUR VALUES IN ACTION
●Care and Compassion ●Quality and Teamwork ●Dignity and Respect ●Openness, honesty and responsibility
Please note: This is a fixed-term post for 6 months
Why work for us?
Patients are at the centre of everything we do in our daily working lives at NHS Borders ensuring they are safe, cared for efficiently, effectively by suitably experienced and qualified staff driving quality at the heart of patient care. We are a dynamic and forward thinking team with a wealth of clinical and leadership experience. We aim for an open and honest culture and believe in nurturing future stars in NHS.
Our service caters for a stable population in a tranquil and beautiful rural area only 36 miles from
’s vibrant capital,. We have excellent local schools and leisure facilities and a quality of life second to none. There is affordable housing in the local area and a relocation package / assistance with temporary accommodation is available for the successful candidate.
The Role
This is an opportunity to join the Anaesthetics Department in a modern well-equipped
and experience the excellent quality of life of the beautiful and rural Borders area in South East Scotland. You would exercise an intermediate level of accountability and the post will have flexible daytime Theatre / ITU responsibilities and out of hours commitments each week. It may be possible to re-organise some of these activities to accommodate specialist interests. Appropriate time is provided for pre and post-operative care, emergency cover for unseen occasions, audit, administration, teaching and other commitments outside the operating theatre. This includes departmental, educational and service commitments.
You must have full registration with the GMC with a licence to practice with adequate postgraduate training and/or Anaesthetic specialty training programme experience (or equivalent), including adequate experience in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, to deal with the on-call requirements. FRCA or equivalent is also desirable.
Out of hours commitments are on a 1 in 7 basis shared with senior trainees, specialty doctors and associate specialist colleagues.
Informal telephone and e-mail enquiries and enquiries about visits to the hospital are welcome, please contact:
Dr Jonathan Aldridge: 01896 826 322 Email: jonathan.aldridge@borders.scot.nhs.uk
Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes .
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here .
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here .
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form
**PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early**
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.