Anaesthetic Fellow QI & Assurance in Perioperative services

• 6 month post, extendable to 12 months subject to satisfactory review
• Open to all post-FRCA (or equivalent) or post CCT trainees who wish to experience leadership and management at a departmental, hospital and wider level, in addition to varied clinical experience including Head and Neck, Regional, burns and paediatric anaesthesia
• The role will involve a roughly 50:50 mix of clinical to non-clinical time, which is flexible according to the on-call rota, course attendance and relevant case mix. On-call is expected to be 1:8 or 1:9
• King’s Fund Emerging Clinical Leaders Course (fully funded)
• QVH’s own leadership course, LEEP (fully funded)
• Shadow senior management, attend board meetings
• Take leading role in a number of projects, including ACSA, service redesign, and business plans

• 6 month post, extendable to 12 months subject to satisfactory review
• Open to all post-FRCA (or equivalent) or post CCT trainees who wish to experience leadership and management at a departmental, hospital and wider level, in addition to varied clinical experience including Head and Neck, Regional, burns and paediatric anaesthesia
• The role will involve a roughly 50:50 mix of clinical to non-clinical time, which is flexible according to the on-call rota, course attendance and relevant case mix. On-call is expected to be 1:8 or 1:9

• King’s Fund Emerging Clinical Leaders Course (fully funded)
• QVH’s own leadership course, LEEP (fully funded)
• Shadow senior management, attend board meetings
• Take leading role in a number of projects, including ACSA, service redesign, and business plans
• Perform relevant audit, help run regular governance sessions

The majority of the clinical workload arises from the Maxillofacial and Plastic surgery departments, with patients of all ages being treated. Candidates must be experienced anaesthetists and previous experience in anaesthesia for plastics and maxillofacial surgery is desirable. This is an excellent opportunity to train across the many fields including paediatrics, difficult airways, burns and regional anaesthesia, with a particular focus on the perioperative journey of Head and Neck patients.

The Queen Victoria Hospital are delighted to offer a Leadership, Management and Head and Neck Anaesthesia Fellowship starting in February 2027. This post is a whole time fixed term appointment for 6 months extendable to 12 months subject to satisfactory review, and would be suitable for a post-FRCA resident during stage 3 (ST5 and above) wishing to take an OOPE, or as a post-CCT role for an individual wishing to gain further managerial and clinical experience prior to a consultant appointment.

The role will look to combine the clinical elements of our Head and Neck SIA module, alongside an opportunity to go on leadership courses, shadow senior figures within the organisation including the clinical director and chief medical officer, and take ownership of projects within the anaesthetic department and the wider hospital. Although we aim for the post holder to work 1-2 days per week on clinical and the same for non-clinical (aiming for a roughly 50:50 split), this is flexible to accommodate the needs of the on-call rota, relevant courses and meetings, and to benefit the post holder in terms of clinical experience.

The post-holder will look to attend a number of management/leadership courses, including the Kings Fund ‘Emerging Clinical Leaders Course’, which will be fully funded, the trusts’ own LEEP course, and attendance on other relevant courses will be encouraged.

We will also facilitate the post-holder to shadow senior leadership figures within the organisation, including the clinical director for peri-operative services and the chief medical officer. The…