Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia (ST6+ Equivalent)

Job overview

A Clinical Fellow post in Anaesthesia is available from December 2025 at the Oxford University Hospitals.

The post will be based jointly with the Horton Hospital, Banbury and the Oxford hospitals.

You will gain experience at a high-quality day surgery centre, and will be contributing to the care of trauma patients at one of the UK’s top centres for fragility fracture care. There are dedicated opportunities to work alongside seniors, anaesthetising patients in remote site settings including MRI.  You must be familiar with the demands of a large UK teaching hospital anaesthetic department.

The postholders will provide elective and emergency anaesthesia to adults and children and be part of the hospital cardiac arrest team at the Horton General Hospital, as part of the resident rota.   Alongside this, you will be gaining experience providing anaesthesia for a variety of specialties offered at OUH.  Training and professional development will be tailored to the experience and needs of the postholder, and appropriate supervision is provided at all times.

Main duties of the job

The focus of this fellowship, beyond the delivery of perioperative care and participation in the resident on-call rotas, is gaining 12 months experience at the equivalent of stage 2 and 3 training in various anaesthesia disciplines.

The work schedule is resident, full shift 1:9 on call rota (pro rata), at the Horton General Hospital, Banbury.  This is a resident rota providing support to the trauma theatre and critical care / airway support to the rest of the hospital.  A duty consultant is on site until 8pm, every day, including bank holidays and weekends.  You will be the sole anaesthetist resident at night, with the consultant available from home.  There is a dedicated on-call room available.

Daytime work will focus on delivering and gaining experience in high turnover day case and trauma anaesthesia while at Banbury and there may be opportunities to gain stage 2/3 equivalent training experience at the Oxford hospital site.  Fellows are expected to deliver some solo elective theatre lists commensurate with their level of training and experience, but always with indirect consultant supervision.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Departmental Administrator produces a weekly rota allocating each member of the trainee grades to particular duties. It is expected that the successful candidate will perform duties appropriate to the grade and to his/her level of experience. There will be times where the schedule has to be changed at short notice after the rota has been published and to move the Fellows to cover a different list, occasionally not directly related to the module they are currently undertaking.

Fellows are given the equivalent of one “fellow-directed day” per week and are encouraged to undertake appropriate service development or QI projects.  Study leave and funding to attend appropriate external CPD is available.  There are numerous other opportunities within the department including national audits, teaching medical students, and assisting with locally run MDT simulation training.The post-holder will participate in clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement, and any other clinical governance activities as required by the Trust, Health Authorities, and external accrediting bodies.

The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.

The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust.  He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of the Clinical Director.