Locum Anaesthetics Consultant with Interest in Chronic Pain

The successful candidate will provide consultant-level clinical care across the chronic pain and anaesthetic services, with an expected 50:50 balance between pain and anaesthesia. Responsibilities will include delivering new patient and follow-up pain clinics, undertaking pain procedures, providing elective and emergency anaesthesia across a range of surgical specialties, contributing to pre-operative assessment and participating in the departmental on-call rota.

The postholder will work closely with consultants, resident doctors, nurses, operating department practitioners and management colleagues, providing clinical leadership and supervision while ensuring high standards of patient safety and continuity of care. They will also contribute to clinical governance, audit and quality improvement activity, as well as teaching and training medical students, trainee anaesthetists and other healthcare professionals. There may also be opportunities to contribute to service development and innovation within the department, depending on experience and interests.

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.

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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.

Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Qualifications

Essential: - MBBS or equivalent; - Full GMC Registration; - FRCA or Equivalent

Clinical Experience

Interpersonal Skills

Desirable: - Appropriate leadership development courses and structured activities

Management

Desirable: - Desire to further develop in the appointed post and contribute to the service development

Audit & Research

Essential: - Experience of audit and quality improvement project; - Willingness to actively in the departments audit and quality improvement

Desirable: - Presentation at recognised national and or international meetings.; - Published or ongoing relevant research

Teaching

Desirable: - Medical education qualification; - Evidence of training in teaching; - Evidence of achieving GMC standards Educational Supervisor role