Consultant Anaesthetist with an Interest in Obstetric Anaesthesia: Sponsorship Available

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

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Job summary

We are searching for an exceptional Consultant Anaesthetist with a passion for Obstetric Anaesthesia to join a team that is growing, innovating, and determined to deliver the safest, highest-quality care for women and families. This is a chance to lead, to challenge, and to help build a service that will sit at the heart of our brand-new Women’s and Children’s Centre opening in 2028.

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.

You will work across obstetric and general anaesthesia, with on-calls currently based at the Princess Royal Hospital. As we prepare for the HTP, future on-call arrangements may evolve to support cross-site working. There are also opportunities to develop interests in pre-operative assessment, paediatric anaesthesia, and day-case anaesthesia within our new elective hub, opened in June 2024.

Main duties of the job

Our maternity unit supports around 4,000 births each year, offering a busy but highly rewarding clinical environment with a caesarean section rate of approximately 42% and epidural rate of approximately 26.7%. You will join a dynamic, friendly, and forward-thinking team of Consultants and SAS doctors who are committed to delivering safe, high-quality care for women and families.

Daytime obstetric anaesthesia is consultant-led, with SAS colleagues providing out-of-hours cover. Together, our team delivers all elective and emergency obstetric anaesthesia and runs a well-established weekly high-risk antenatal clinic.

We work exceptionally closely with our obstetric, midwifery, and theatre colleagues, and our strong multidisciplinary culture is one of our greatest strengths. This is reflected in:

  • Active anaesthetic involvement in PROMPT, live drills, and multidisciplinary simulation
  • A monthly Labour Ward Forum
  • Joint planning for high-risk cases
  • Weekly MDT risk meetings
  • Daily MDT labour ward rounds

You will have protected obstetric governance time, in addition to monthly departmental governance meetings.

We are proud to train postgraduate doctors from the Stoke School of Anaesthesia, supporting them through their Initial Assessment of Obstetric Competence and offering intermediate and top-up modules. If you enjoy teaching, you will find plenty of opportunity to get involved.

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 for Intensive Care Medicine and /or Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine or Acute Medicine/Medicine. 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
  • Higher Obstetric training
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional, or national levels
  • Excellent written and spoken English
  • Appreciation of, and ability to work effectively in the MDT

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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