Consultant in Anaesthesia: Sponsorship Available

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

The Trust seeks to appoint a Consultant Anaesthetist. This is a whole-time position, and the new appointee will share the caseload, facilities, and trainee grade support with the existing consultants. Requirements of the post-holder are listed below.

The post is whole time post of 10 PA’s and offers 8.5 programmed activities (PAs), and 1.5 SPA.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide pre-operative assessment, anaesthesia, and follow-up. He/she will be expected to introduce and apply new techniques as appropriate and to take a share of the general work of the department, including cover for consultant colleagues where practical. There are opportunities and support provided to develop leadership roles such as sub-specialty lead and college tutor.

The Department of Anaesthesia is committed to continuing its teaching role and considerable importance is attached to the support of the junior medical staff in the Department.

Main duties of the job

The appointment is to the Trust, not to specific hospitals. The appointee will take his/her share of clinical responsibilities within the Department of anaesthesia. This will include provision for clinics in the pre-operative assessment department. In addition to any duties within a subspeciality of interest, the appointee will be required to provide anaesthesia for adult and child patients in all specialties as appropriate to his/her training and experience.

There is a need to develop a team with a strong emphasis on delivering a cross-site service. Post-holders will be required to work on each site.

Consultants will agree to a job plan, which is reviewed annually.

Person Specification

Qualifications and experience

Essential

  • MBBS or equivalent
  • Holder of Certificate of completion of training (CCT) or Equivalent or within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
  • Fully GMC registered with a licence to practice

Desirable

  • SIA/fellowship or equivalent in a subspecialist area such as paediatrics, regional, acute pain or perioperative medicine
  • Experience in pre-operative assessment with clinical pathway development and coordination of perioperative care
  • NHS experience at an acute hospital within an inner-city location

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: 26 October 2026

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