Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia

Provide high quality anaesthetic care for both elective and emergency surgical patients. Develop clinical leadership, quality improvement and educational roles at an early stage. Work within the clinical governance framework. Maintain professional competencies and development. Provide dedicated non-residential on-call cover (with internal cover). Out-of-hours non-residential on-call cover will include both emergency theatre and maternity theatre, and may include the need to anaesthetise young children. Currently, consultants also cover ITU while on-call and we are anticipating this will change in the future. Agree to be available within 30 minutes for emergencies that necessitate consultant input. Help to develop evidence based local treatment policies, to guide best clinical care.

Yeovil Hospital are looking for a Locum Consultant Anaesthetist to join our dynamic team on a fixed term basis, this role could be offered for a minimum of 6 months and up to 12 months fixed term to cover sickness and vacancies within the current staffing establishment. The contract will be for 11 PAs per week and the job plan includes a minimum of 1.5 SPA activity per week for this fixed term contract. We are looking for candidates to start asap and no later than 3 months from date of interview and conditional offer being been made. The workload, by the nature of the hospital, is varied and any applicant would need to be comfortable anaesthetising for children, major colo-rectal, major orthopaedic, and obstetrics amongst others. We cover all of the main surgical specialities except for vascular, neuro, spinal surgery cardio-thoracic, and specialist paediatrics. Many special interests can be accommodated but of particular interest are those of peri-operative medicine, regional anaesthesia, human-factors/simulation and day surgery. As a relatively small Trust it is easy to develop new services and new practices based on your ideas. There are opportunities to develop non-clinical interests especially in Education, Mentorship, Leadership and Management. Around 18,000 operations are performed each year, with over 750 Critical Care admissions., As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts. The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London. There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!

We really value the impact that you as a locum Consultant will have on our patients and services; we therefore offer an enhanced benefits package (subject to criteria) which includes:

• A generous relocation package
• 6 hours of paid time for professional development every week (SPA)
• £700 personal budget for training and development every year, £105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum (salary figure based on 10 PA's per week)