Consultant Anaesthetist with an Interest in General Anaesthesia: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly driven Consultant Anaesthetist with to join our expert and energetic team. We currently have two vibrant hospital sites each with a varied range of services available. Our hospitals are brimming with exemplary teams of hardworking individuals.

Our Trust is on the brink of a once-in-a-generation change. Backed by £312 million of investment, the Hospital Transformation Programme will create:

  • A single acute site at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, home to a new 30-bed Critical Care Unit, a modern Emergency Department, and a state-of-the-art Women’s and Children’s Hospital
  • A dedicated planned care site at The Princess Royal Hospital, supporting high-quality elective surgery and improved patient flow

This is your opportunity to join us at the perfect moment — early enough to influence the design and delivery of future services, but close enough to opening that you’ll see your impact become reality.

We are delighted to offer one post involving regular general anaesthesia sessions. The successful applicant will work sessions on both hospital sites with on-calls based at The Princess Royal Hospital. Please note that we are restructuring services in preparation for the HTP and as such future on calls may include anaesthesia on-calls on one or both sites. There are also opportunities to get involved in pre-operative assessment clinics, paediatric anaesthesia and day case anaesthesia in our brand-new elective hub, which opened in June 2024.

Main duties of the job

The Trust offers surgical specialities in the form of Urology, Orthopaedic Trauma, Ophthalmic surgery, Vascular Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Head & Neck Surgery, some Paediatric Surgery and ENT surgery. We also have a busy pre-operative assessment service that not only includes daily pre-operative assessment clinics but also CPEX testing.

The post holder will be expected to deliver elective theatre sessions on both hospital sites. The colorectal surgery department is mainly based on the Shrewsbury site and is the 10th largest colorectal cancer unit in the UK (ACPGBI data) with 10 colorectal consultants and 6 upper GI consultants who together cover the busy on-call rota. All six upper GI surgeons do bariatric surgery.

RSH is a major contributor to the NELA project with over 300 emergency laparotomies a year and is also an approved site for the FLOELA trial looking at goal directed fluid therapy in the same cohort of patients.

Enhanced recovery is a key part of departmental practice and SATH has made a commitment to continually improve the service. The colorectal department is in the process of acquiring a surgical robot.

The Trust has recently invested and acquired a suite and Intuitive da Vinci Xi robotic system to perform robotic surgery in various specialities. This creates an exciting opportunity to get involved in anaesthetic service provision and planning in colorectal, urology and gynae-oncology robotic surgery.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MBBS, MbCHB or equivalent medical qualification
  • Royal College Diploma (e.g., FRCA, MRCP, FRCM)
  • ALS or equivalent certification
  • APLS certification
  • Level 3 Safeguarding Children training (within the last 3 years)

Desirable

  • Higher degree (e.g. MD or PhD) or evidence of higher education

Entry Criteria

Essential

  • Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council (GMC)
  • To be eligible for consideration for a consultant appointment by an Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC), candidates must be fully registered on the UK General Medical Council’s Specialist Register. We welcome applications from candidates who are within six months of achieving Specialist Registration through either the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR)
  • Minimum of four years of clinical experience of working in the NHS
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patient
  • Paediatric experience
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional, or national levels
  • Ability to be compassionate towards patient in pain and in vulnerable situations
  • Excellent written and spoken English
  • Appreciation of, and ability to work effectively in the MDT

Desirable

  • Higher Obstetric training

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 16 September 2026

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