Consultant in Anaesthesia

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

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Consultant Anaesthetist

We are looking for a candidate to join our team of anaesthetists working across our various sites to provide high level anaesthetic provision.

Torbay hospital has a reputation for having a friendly working environment, has excellent trainee feedback and is a national innovator in many areas including day surgery and peri-operative medicine.

We are one of the first departments in the country to have undergone and completed ACSA reaccreditation successfully, and the hospital is part of the HIP2 wave of major rebuild and refurbishment, which includes a new theatres build and will place a transformative digital environment at the heart of patient care.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will take part in the general on-call rota at Torbay and as such obstetric and paediatric anaesthetic skills are essential. Our on-call commitment has evolved to provide the highest quality consultant-delivered service whilst supporting a healthy work-life balance. General anaesthetists contribute to a 1 in 20 non-resident on call rota.

You will provide high quality consultant delivered care to all patients and provide clinical leadership and supervision to junior medical staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GMC Registration / CCT Specialist Registration

Desirable

  • Other degrees ( BSc / MSc / MD)

Experience

Essential

  • Provide anaesthesia for the full range of DGH specialities
  • Ability to prioritise clinical need
  • Ability to supervise multi-disciplinary teams
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients, both elective and emergency

Desirable

  • Subspeciality anaesthetic interest and expertise in orthopaedics, regional anaesthesia or ambulatory / day surgery

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate familiarity with and understanding NHS structures
  • Awareness of national strategic plans and constraints
  • Ability to demonstrate willingness to lead clinical teams and develop an effective specialist clinical service
  • Proven ability to teach clinical skills applying evidence based knowledge

Desirable

  • Evidence of innovative development and implementation of guidance
  • Evidence of involving patients in practice
  • Active interest in IT
  • Ability to supervise post graduate research
  • Evidence of research, publications or presentations

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to undertake an on call rota and day to day service delivery of anaesthetics
  • Able to concentrate for prolonged periods of time

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: 11 August 2026

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