Consultant Anaesthetists

Overview

In this role you will join an established anaesthesia team at Sulis Hospital, contributing to high-volume, same-day pathways and complex care. You will help drive service development, research, and teaching within a clinically led framework that supports NHS and private patient activity. You will work with cross-functional teams to maintain high safety and governance standards while expanding capacity. This is a leadership-minded post with opportunities to oversee theatres, Day Surgery, and Pre-Op services. Your impact will center on improving pathways, outcomes, and patient experience in a respected, award-winning hospital setting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a minimum of eight Clinical PAs in theatres and pre-operative assessment plus two PAs of Supporting Professional Activity weekly
• Collaborate with partners, unit managers, nurses, and colleagues to meet clinical and local priorities
• Participate in care-pathway development, research, audit, and teaching
• Work across weekend rosters and on-call arrangements with Sulis consultants
• Manage a flexible caseload, ensure patient suitability, escalation, and transfer decisions
• Adhere to Sulis policies and manage postoperative analgesia within documented timescales

Key requirements

• Full GMC registration
• Entry on the Specialist Register in Anaesthetics, or within 3 months of achieving CCT
• FRCA or equivalent
• CCT or CESR
• Extensive anaesthesia training and experience, including short-stay, high-volume and same-day surgery
• Current competence in ultrasound-guided upper-limb regional anaesthesia (interscalene block)
• Ability to work independently and lead an operating list
• Experience with clinical audit and governance, quality improvement, and service development

• excellent written and verbal communication
• leadership and delegation
• team collaboration and partnership with management
• ultrasound-guided upper-limb regional anaesthesia (interscalene)
• general anaesthesia for short-stay, high-volume cases
• clinical governance and quality improvement

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