Consultant Anaesthetist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Consultant Anaesthetist to join our well-established and highly skilled Anaesthetics Department. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated clinician to contribute to the delivery of high-quality anaesthetic services across the Trust.

The successful candidate will provide comprehensive elective and emergency perioperative anaesthetic care and will play an active role in the Trust’s general anaesthetic on-call rota. The post-holder will undertake the full range of duties and responsibilities expected of a Consultant Anaesthetist, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure the highest standards of patient care.

In addition to delivering excellent clinical services, the successful candidate will be expected to maintain and develop their professional knowledge and skills, participate in clinical governance and appraisal activities, and contribute to the education and training of medical, nursing and allied health professional colleagues.

This role offers the opportunity to join a supportive team of experienced anaesthetists within a forward-thinking organisation committed to delivering safe, effective and patient-centred care across all of its hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering anaesthetic services across WWL. Working across the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wrightington Hospital and Leigh Infirmary, the post holder will provide anaesthetic support to a wide range of specialties including orthopaedics, trauma, general surgery, ENT, obstetrics and gynaecology, urology, paediatrics and day-case surgery.

The role includes participation in elective and emergency anaesthetic services, the departmental on-call rota, and pre-operative assessment clinics, including high-risk pathways. The successful candidate will contribute to specialist services such as major orthopaedic surgery, obstetric anaesthesia, critical care, trauma and chronic pain.

The post holder will actively participate in clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, morbidity and mortality meetings, and service development. They will also support the education, supervision and training of Resident Doctors, Clinical Fellows, SAS Doctors and other healthcare professionals, with opportunities to participate in simulation and teaching programmes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full registration with the GMC with a Licence to practice
• FRCA (UK or Ireland) or equivalent
• Inclusion on Specialist Register/admission within six months of interview dat

Desirable

• Certificate of Medical Education
• A higher qualification, eg. MD, PhD
• European Diploma in Regional Anaesthesia
• Advanced training in Regional Anaesthesia

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and their relatives, and with colleagues in all disciplines
• Ability to lead the development of services and promote best prac-tice amongst colleagues
• Proficient in the use of Information Technology

Desirable

• Portfolio evidencing a range of nerve blocks candidate is competent in
• Evidence of the development of leadership within the work environment
• Attendance at courses in teaching, appraisal and mentorship
• Proven interest in at least one ar-ea of research

Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of participation in un-dergraduate and postgraduate teaching and commitment to these

Desirable

• Knowledge of up to date literature
• Evidence of recent and current research with relevant publications

Personal Skills

Essential

• Team Working: Experience of working in a team, value input of other professionals in the team
• Management / Team Involvement: Work cooperatively with others and demonstrate leadership. Work effectively in multi-professional teams
• Capacity to work under pressure. Demonstrate initiative and resilience, adapt and change rapidly
• Use logical / lateral thinking to solve problems and make decisions.
• Prioritise own work. Demonstrate punctuality, preparation, and self-discipline. Understands importance of information technology
• Ability to adapt and work with employers to deliver improved patient care
• Promote equality and values diversity
• Take responsibility for own actions and demonstrate a non-judgemental approach towards others, Display honesty, integrity, awareness of confidentiality and ethical issues

Desirable

• Experience of Leadership
• Effective skills for delegation

Professional Development

Essential

• Commitment to maintain professional skills and knowledge relevant to the job
• Demonstrate a willingness to fully engage in appraisal. Self-awareness and ability to accept and learn from feedback

Desirable

• Additional achievements relevant to the role

Additional

Essential

• Clinical Governance: Capacity to alert to dangers or problems. Demonstrate awareness of good decision making. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors
• Audit: evidence of active participation in audit
• Teaching: evidence of interest and experience in teaching where required in the job
• Effective Communication Skills: demonstrate clarity in written / spoken communication and capacity to adapt language as appropriate to situation
• Empathy and Sensitivity: Capacity to listen and take in other perspectives
• Works in Partnership with patients. always considers patients preferences when discussing treatment options
• Consider full impact of clinical decisions on the patients. Practice shared decision making
• Direct and supports patients to access the information they need to support decision making

Desirable

• Research Skills: Demonstrate understanding of the principle of research, evidence of relevant academic and research achievements
• Teaching: Evidence of experience in teaching

Closing Date: 30 November 2026