Locum Consultant in Pain Management

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

(10 Programmed Activities per week, based at Edgware Community Hospital and Hadley Wood Hospital)

Applications are invited from suitably qualified individuals to join the Pain Management team at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, ambitious loucm consultant to contribute to further development of the Pain Management service across the Royal Free London. You will join a dynamic consultant and full multidisciplinary team and contribute to an on-going agenda of service transformation to provide a responsive and high-quality Pain Management service for the benefit of patients.

This post is to support a busy service delivering outpatient services at Edgware Community, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals, Day Surgery procedures at Hadley Wood Hospital and ward inpatient services at the Royal Free and Barnet Hospitals. This post includes sessions with the Anaesthetics department providing anaesthetic sessions at one of the Trust’s operating theatre suites.

The core job plan involves fixed and cross-cover sessions based at Edgware Community, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Royal Free or Chase Farm sites. The post is Monday to Friday and does not include weekend working or have an on-call commitment.

Main duties of the job

Below is an example of an indicative timetable – actual working pattern may differ:

Admin- Outpatient Clinical

DCC

0.75

Standard Clinic (Basic, New & Follow Up)

DCC

3.25

Standard Day Case Theatre session

DCC

1.25

Consultant inpatient pain ward round

DCC

1.00

CPD SPA

SPA

1.00

MDT

DCC

0.25

Anaesthetic session

DCC

2.50

Total

10.00

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Relavant Clinical Anaesthetic experience across major Specialities .
  • Participation in audit and clinical governance
  • Ability to teach and support juniors and other staff.

Desirable

  • Research and Development

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

  • Work with own Initiative
  • Recognise limitations
  • Effective team work
  • Computer literate
  • Ability to participate in consultant on-call rota

Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

  • Excellent written and spoken English
  • Strong communication
  • Knowledge of resource management
  • Ability to stay calm under pressure.

Others

Essential

  • Enhanced DBS clearance
  • Occupational health Clearance
  • Commitment to CME / CPD and revalidation
  • Compliance with trust policies incl. infection control and data protection

Education and Professional Qualifications

Essential

  • GMC Registration with licence to practice.
  • CCT ( or within 6 months of completion) or Equivalent

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: 9 August 2026

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