Consultant Anaesthetist

Please see job description and personal specification attached for full detail. The Anaesthetic Department at West Suffolk Hospital is staffed with 32 substantive consultants, 8 specialty doctors and a further 28 trust and trainee doctors. There are 2 anaesthesia associates working in theatres, with a further 2 students commencing training in March 2023, and an advanced critical care practitioner, with a further 3 in training based on the critical care unit. All consultants are expected to be able to provide mentoring and support for non-consultant grade doctors and anaesthesia associates.

There is a 4-tier resident junior on-call rota allowing the provision of a minimum of two airway trained juniors on site 24 hours a day. Of the airway trained juniors, one is primarily responsible for obstetrics and the other the critical care unit. Our surgical services include ENT, general surgery including upper GI, colorectal and breast, gynaecology, dental, plastics, orthopaedics (both upper and lower limb), trauma, and urology. We provide a 24 hour a day, 7 days a week consultant led service, providing elective and emergency cover, alongside obstetrics and the critical care unit.

As a training hospital there are trainees rotating through placements whereby they require teaching and supervision to complete their competencies for stage 1 (core or ACCS) or stage 3.1 anaesthesia training. There will be an expectation to participate in training of junior doctors and the MDT. The successful applicant will be expected to take part in developing services within the department and the wider Trust, and to share the clinical, administrative, and teaching work with the other consultants in the department. Participation in clinical audit and quality improvement is a requirement.

Clinical research projects are encouraged.