Anaesthetics Consultant Special Interest

Position: Anaesthetics Consultant with Special Interest

Anaesthetics Consultant with Special Interest

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Job Summary

We are delighted to offer two exciting opportunities for exceptional Consultant Anaesthetists to join our expanding department at Northampton General Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). These roles offer the chance to shape and lead anaesthetic services within two key specialty areas:
Major Head & Neck Surgery and General Anaesthesia.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-delivered anaesthetic services across major and general surgical specialties, aligned to your appointed post.
• Deliver perioperative care from pre-assessment through to postoperative review, ensuring excellence in safety, optimisation and recovery.
• Participate in the 1:12 on-call rota, including out-of-hours emergency theatre and obstetric anaesthesia support.
• Contribute to critical care support as appropriate, working alongside the dedicated Critical Care Consultant team.

Leadership, Governance & Service Development

• Take an active role in shaping the future of the anaesthetic service through quality improvement, clinical governance, audit and innovation.
• Support departmental leadership in theatre optimisation, human factors, perioperative pathway design and service transformation.
• Engage in continuous improvement projects, simulation-based education, and the expansion of regional anaesthesia and advanced airway skills.

Education & Research

• Teach undergraduate medical students, postgraduate trainees and multidisciplinary staff as part of UHN's commitment to excellence in education.

About Us

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Excellence Values

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

Details

• Date posted: 10 December 2025
• Pay scheme:
  Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade:
  Consultant
• Salary £109,725 to £145,478 a year Per Annum
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full-time
• Reference number:
  
  -SUR
• Job locations:
  Anaesthetics Department - Northampton General Hospital, Cliftonville Road, Northampton, NN1 5BD

Essential Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent
• Full GMC Registration
• GMC specialist Register in Anaesthesia
• FRCA or Equivalent
• CCT in Anaesthesia or within 6 months of the interview

Desirable Qualifications

• Membership of specialist societies
• Further postgraduate qualifications in or allied to anaesthesia

Essential Clinical Experience

• Anaesthetic management of a wide range of head and neck, obstetric, general, orthopaedic, emergency, trauma, and major surgery with the completion of higher training module set out by the RCOA old curriculum or Level 3 of the current curriculum.

Desirable Clinical Experience

• Advanced training module or Specialist Interest area module of the new curriculum in relevant area for job plan 1
• Obstetric anaesthesia/Higher or advanced module or SIA equivalent for Job plan 2

Essential Interpersonal Skills

• Commitment to team working
• Good organisational skills and punctuality
• Good written, verbal, and aural communication skills
• Caring attitude towards colleagues

Desirable Interpersonal Skills

• Appropriate leadership development courses and structured activities

Essential Management

• Willingness to work as a member of the wider trust
• Awareness of current service development opportunities and challenges
• Willingness to share administrative responsibilities

Desirable Management

• Desire to further develop in the appointed post and contribute to the service development

Essential Audit & Research

• Experience of audit and quality improvement project
• Willingness to actively in the departments audit and quality improvement

Desirable Audit & Research

• Presentation at recognised national and or international meetings.
• Published or ongoing relevant research

Essential Teaching

• Experience of and commitment to postgraduate teaching
• Experience of and commitment to undergraduate teaching
• Understanding of current education processes and requirements for training in Anaesthesia and ITU
• Evidence of attendance at anaesthesia meetings

Desirable Teaching

• Medical education qualification
• Evidence of training in teaching
• Evidence of achieving GMC standards Educational Supervisor role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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