Applications are invited from exceptional individuals with first-class clinical expertise and excellent team-working skills to join the outstanding Consultant Anaesthetic team at North Bristol NHS Trust.

North Bristol Trust is seeking to appoint 3 consultants in anaesthesia to these exciting substantive roles. Candidates should evidence broad interest in Vascular, Regional, Neuroanaesthesia, Major Elective Orthopedics, Major Urology, Plastics, Gastrointestinal or Pre-operative assessment

(Full/Part time substantive)

The post holder will have a varied programme covering a range of some of the above specialities. Job plans will be agreed with the clinical leads and take into account applicants clinical interest and expertise, and the requirements of the department.

Please see the attached Consultant Candidate Pack for further details - including draft job plans.

North Bristol Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South-West region providing medical, surgical, neonatal and maternity care for a population of almost a million people in the Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset area, employing more than 9,300 staff, with a revenue budget in excess of £500 million.

The Brunel Building has 802 beds 75% of which are single occupancy. The Women’s and Children’s Centre has a further 152 beds. There is a modern theatre complex over 2 floors of 29 theatres and interventional suites. NBT will shortly be opening the Elective Care Centre, an exciting new development including 4 new purpose built operating theatres in a dedicated elective facility. Individual multipurpose medirooms provide the environment for admission, recovery and discharge, and offer the facility for performing regional blocks. There is a state of the art 46 bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) adjacent to the operating theatres, emergency department and imaging.

The Brunel Building has brought together the specialist teams formerly based at Frenchay Hospital and Southmead Hospital. These include regional adult services in Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and Burns, Neurosurgery, Vascular surgery, Urology and Renal services. NBT is a designated Major Trauma Centre servicing the Severn Network in the South West.

The Anaesthetic department became ACSA accredited in 2020 and is currently going through its re-accreditation process.

Relevant clinical activity includes:
Vascular Network –, centralised in the SW to NBT in Oct 2014, providing regional endovascular services

Expanding regional anaesthesia service providing support to trauma and plastic surgery

Colorectal centre –leading ERAS service providing a full range of colorectal services

Bristol Urology Institute– tertiary referral centre for the South West and specialist robotic surgery

Specialist Elective Orthopaedic Centre including complex deformity spinal surgery.

Designated Major Trauma Centre

Bariatric Unit

Large Neurosurgical centre active research and clinical trial agenda with innovative treatments not delivered elsewhere in the UK.

Stroke Thrombectomy Service (24/7)

Plastics and Burns Unit

Breast Care Centre providing majority of services as day case

Busy Obstetric Unit with 6500 deliveries per year

Pain Clinic with an international reputation for Spinal Cord Stimulator insertion

An integrated pre-operative service including ERAS, Complex medical assessment, CPET, and Pharmacy

The Southmead Hospital Bristol site includes the maternity department and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the new Bristol Breast Care Centre, clinical research teams and Severn Pathology.

The Trust has teaching status and is linked with the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England. The appointee will be required to reside no more than 30 minutes travelling time (by road) from the Southmead Hospital site for on-call purposes.

Interested applicants are welcome to contact Dr Clinton Lobo, Clinical Lead for Anaesthetics. Email: clinton.lobo@nbt.nhs.uk Tel: 0117 4145114

Applicants are required to be on the Specialist Register and have a CCT in Anaesthesia or be within six months of obtaining it by the interview date. Full Registration with the GMC is essential. The post is based at Southmead Hospital . Experience and familiarity with UK hospital systems and practices or equivalent is essential. The successful candidate will be employed under Terms & Conditions of Service for Consultants (England) 2003.

If you are shortlisted we will contact you by email with details of your interview of which you will need to confirm your attendance. Therefore it is important that you check your online account regularly.

Please note:
AAC Panel date will be confirmed during the shortlisting process.

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