Locum Consultant in Neuro Anaesthesia and Stroke Thrombectomy

Locum Consultant in Neuro Anaesthesia and Stroke Thrombectomy Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant Anaesthetist with a special interest in Neuroanaesthesia and Stroke Thrombectomy, based at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, for a fixed period of 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join an expanding, innovative and dynamic department of 85 substantive Consultants, 44 residents and 15 Senior Clinical Fellows, providing anaesthetic services in this thriving modern teaching hospital.

You will be fully registered with the GMC and ideally have a CCT in Anaesthesia or be within six months of award at the time of interview. You should ideally have completed an SIA in neuroanaesthesia or have equivalent experience in neuroanaesthesia so that you are able to manage these patients independently at Consultant level.

Applications are welcomed from those unable to work full time for personal reasons or those wishing to job-share.

About us

The applicant must have demonstrable skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking in English that enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues, as set out in the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2013). Non-UK applicants must possess the IELTS/OET exam before obtaining a GMC licence to practice.

Job responsibilities

Addenbrookes is the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge and the East of England School of Anaesthesia and ICM and is a flagship NHS hospital, having achieved NHS Foundation Trust status in July 2004. It has strong international links particularly through the University and it is a world-class centre for medical research.

Addenbrookes is also the local hospital for people living in the Cambridge area and is a regional/supra-regional referral centre for several specialties, including cancer surgery, neurosurgery, transplantation, plastic surgery, vascular and paediatrics. We are also the Major Trauma Centre for the East of England.

As an internationally prominent teaching hospital, there is unparalleled capacity for teaching, including involvement in the high-fidelity simulation centre, and research within the department as well as the wider biomedical campus. Neuroanaesthesia at CUH has ICPNT accreditation and runs a very successful international neuroanaesthesia fellowship. The East of England School of Anaesthesia SIA in Neuroanaesthesia training is delivered at CUH.

The Neurosciences unit at Addenbrookes is the regional referral centre for adult and paediatric Neurosurgery and a quaternary referral centre for advanced neurosurgical and neuroradiological interventions with up to 6 neurosurgical areas per day. The department provides anaesthetic expertise for complex and innovative neurosurgical, major spinal and neuro-radiological procedures. The unit is also planning to build an intraoperative MRI suite. There are 2 interventional neuroradiology suites to accommodate interventional neuroradiology and referrals for stroke thrombectomy.

You will be part of a team of 15 neuroanaesthetists and will be expected to undertake neuroanaesthesia, stroke thrombectomy and some general anaesthesia lists along with on call in Trauma (which includes Major trauma) on weekdays. There is no weekend on call responsibility. The trust currently provides stroke thrombectomy services to the whole of East Anglia covering all 7 days of the week.

The successful candidate will be expected to take part in providing daytime cover for this evolving stroke thrombectomy service, in addition to covering neuro theatres.

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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.

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Basic salary plus on call enhancements