Employer Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Hampshire County Hospital Town Winchester Salary £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/09/2025 08:00
Locum Consultant Anaesthetist
Consultant
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Job overview
We are looking for a Locum Consultant Anaesthetist to support our services at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working across both our hospital sites at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester.
This is a full time 10 PA Consultant Anaesthetist post, which is based at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH). Anaesthetic sessions would be anticipated to be delivered in Winchester. If desired, some anaesthetic sessions could be delivered cross-site but by mutual agreement and depending on service needs.
The successful candidate will work within our friendly anaesthetic consultant team and provide departmental leadership and supervision of a group of junior and mid-grade doctors at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
Role-specific duties:
• Provide a safe, effective, responsive, and caring anaesthetic service to a level expected by a Consultant.
• Agree a job plan with the Clinical Director in Anaesthetics and work flexibly as far as is possible to accommodate the needs of the Department.
• To ensure that standards are maintained and developed through clinical audit, quality improvement hampshirehospitalscareers.co.uk and evidence-based research.
• Participate actively in clinical governance, including reporting of incidents, investigation of serious incidents and any complaints.
• Show a determination to meet or exceed the standards of the National Patients’ Rights Charter.
• To be familiar with the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ curriculum for Junior Doctor Training and contribute to their training requirements, including tutorials and educational supervision where required
Working for our organisation
Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH)
Anaesthesia is provided for elective and emergency surgery in the main 5 Nightingale theatres and 3 daycase theatres. Florence Portal House accommodates our obstetric centre and includes 2 elective theatres for breast and gynaecology. The CEPOD theatre operate half days in hours and at night and 24 hours at weekends. Obstetric theatres operate 24 hours per day.
The Critical Care Unit currently has a 10-bed unit caring for a mixture of HDU (level 2) and ICU (level 3) patients. With a mixture of surgical and medical admissions, there are approximately 600 admissions per year, with approximately 40% of patients needing ICU (level 3) care.
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH)
Anaesthesia is provided for elective and emergency surgery across 7 main theatres, 4 day-case theatres, 1 ophthalmic theatre and 2 obstetric theatres. The CEPOD and obstetric theatre are available 24 hours per day and there are also dedicated trauma lists seven days per week.
There are two critical care units (A&B) with a total of 18 beds that are used flexibly to provide intensive care and high dependency level care. There are approximately 1050 admissions per year to Basingstoke Critical Care. Medical admissions account for 60% of the case mix, emergency surgery 15% and elective surgery 25%. Critical Care Outreach is available from both Critical Care sites.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person specification
Professional Qualification
* Full GMC Registration and on the GMC Specialist Register for Anaesthesia
* MBBS or equivalent
* Membership of relevant specialist Societies
* MD or equivalent
Clinical Experience Knowledge•
* Experience of general & regional anaesthesia to level expected of UK consultant anaesthetist for a wide range of surgical specialists
Skills and Ability
* Understands the concepts and principals of clinical governance.
* Aware of the issues affecting current & future NHS practice.
* Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams.
* Understands the NHS system nationally, regionally and locally.
* Evidence of organisational ability
* Willingness to share administrative responsibilities
* Willingness to work flexibly to a level which would be reasonably expected of a consultant
* Attended an NHS Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
* Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge aquisition
Research & Teaching
* Commitment to teaching of both undergraduates and postgraduates and evidence of active participation in teaching
* An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature.
* Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit.
* Completed audit projects with evidence of active participation in audit
* Expertise in teaching.
* Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation.
* Publications in peer review journals
Other requirements
* An appropriate, well organised and clearly presented CV including experience in the training of Specialist Trainees.
* Excellent communicator, able to work in a close-knit team and co-operate fully with all medical and paramedical staff
* Able to take responsibility, cope with stressful situations, and adapt to change
* Awareness of current service development issues within HHFT
* Demonstrable ability to effect positive sustainable change
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
* HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
* Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
* All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
* In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
* This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
* We believe that using technology wisely reflects strong time management and a commitment to innovation. However, it's essential to personalise your recruitment application to showcase your unique skills and experiences. Over-reliance on generic, AI-generated content may result in rejection if multiple candidates submit applications with similar language or structure. In such cases, recruiting managers may reach out for further clarity where applications appear consistent with others, to better understand your individual strengths.
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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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