Consultant Anaesthetist

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious Anaesthetist to join our well-integrated Perioperative team at Freeman Hospital. This new Consultant anaesthetic post is the result of the expansion of our surgical theatre capacity with the opening of the new Day Case Treatment Centre in October 2022. The successful candidate would provide specialist peri-operative care including pre-operative assessment, intra-operative anaesthetic management and post-operative care to patients undergoing a wide range of operative procedures, with on call participation on the general theatre on call rota.

The post would be suitable for any candidate who enjoys the challenge of and has experience in the perioperative management of both major and day-case (Ambulatory) surgical cases. The Freeman is essentially an elective surgically orientated hospital that manages the following specialities: hepatobiliary, ENT, urology, vascular, general surgery and orthopaedics in medically high-risk patients. We also have an extensive robotics programme covering urology, ENT, hepatobiliary and colorectal surgeries. Experience in providing perioperative care for robotic surgical cases is not essential as in-house training will be provided if required., To provide specialist perioperative care including pre-operative assessment, intraoperative anaesthetic management and post-operative care to patients undergoing a wide range of operative treatments.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.