Locum Consultant in General Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Job overview

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant Anaesthetist with a specialist interest in General Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) to commence as soon as possible for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will join an expanding, innovative and dynamic department of 85 Consultants, 50 Trainees/Clinical Fellows and 16 Senior Clinical Fellows, providing anaesthetic services in this thriving, modern teaching hospital.

The on-call role currently involves an orthopaedic trauma list during the evening once a week, with the potential to transition to either the general on-call rota or the newly available postoperative care unit on-call rota during the course of employment.

You will be fully registered with the GMC and ideally have a CCT in Anaesthesia or be within six months of award of CCT, or have submitted your application for CESR at the time of interview. Applications are welcomed from those unable to work full time for personal reasons or those wishing to job-share.

Working for your organisation

The applicant must have demonstrable skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking in English that enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues, as set out in the GMC’s Good Medical Practice (2013). Non-UK applicants must possess the IELTS/OET exam before obtaining a GMC licence to practice.

Applications from job seekers who require skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will join a growing team of Anaesthetists who support a large range of services within this large tertiary hospital. The cases you are likely to encounter as a locum consultant span a diverse range including major general, oncology, trauma & orthopaedics, vascular, urology, gynaecology and ENT.

Addenbrooke’s not only provides a broad range of medical services for people living in the Cambridge area but is also a regional/supra-regional referral centre for a number of specialties including cancer surgery, neurosurgery, transplantation, plastic surgery, vascular surgery and paediatrics. As a world-renowned teaching hospital, there is unparalleled capacity for teaching and research including involvement in the high-fidelity simulation centre, and research projects within the department as well as the wider biomedical campus.

Addenbrooke’s is the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge and is a flagship NHS hospital having achieved NHS Foundation Trust status in July 2004. It has strong international links particularly through the University and it is a world-class centre for medical research.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Dr Andrea Ortu, Lead for General Anaesthesia (andrea.ortu@nhs.net)

Dr Beate Van-Wyk, Clinical Lead for Anaesthesia (beate.van-wyk@nhs.net)

or Dr Muhilan Kanagarathnam, Clinical Director for Perioperative Services (m.kanagarathnam@nhs.net)

Visits to the department should be arranged through the Anaesthetic Department on 01223 216292.