Consultant Anaesthetist with an Interest in General Anaesthesia

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly driven Consultant Anaesthetist with to join our expert and energetic team. We currently have two vibrant hospital sites each with a varied range of services available. Our hospitals are brimming with exemplary teams of hardworking individuals.

Our Trust is on the brink of a once‑in‑a‑generation change. Backed by £312 million of investment, the Hospital Transformation Programme will create:

• A single acute site at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, home to a new 30‑bed Critical Care Unit, a modern Emergency Department, and a state‑of‑the‑art Women’s and Children’s Hospital
• A dedicated planned care site at The Princess Royal Hospital, supporting high‑quality elective surgery and improved patient flow

This is your opportunity to join us at the perfect moment — early enough to influence the design and delivery of future services, but close enough to opening that you’ll see your impact become reality.

We are delighted to offer one post involving regular general anaesthesia sessions. The successful applicant will work sessions on both hospital sites with on-calls based at The Princess Royal Hospital. Please note that we are restructuring services in preparation for the HTP and as such future on calls may include anaesthesia on-calls on one or both sites. There are also opportunities to get involved in pre-operative assessment clinics, paediatric anaesthesia and day case anaesthesia in our brand-new elective hub, which opened in June 2024.

Main duties of the job

The Trust offers surgical specialities in the form of Urology, Orthopaedic Trauma, Ophthalmic surgery, Vascular Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Head & Neck Surgery, some Paediatric Surgery and ENT surgery. We also have a busy pre-operative assessment service that not only includes daily pre-operative assessment clinics but also CPEX testing.

The post holder will be expected to deliver elective theatre sessions on both hospital sites. The colorectal surgery department is mainly based on the Shrewsbury site and is the 10th largest colorectal cancer unit in the UK (ACPGBI data) with 10 colorectal consultants and 6 upper GI consultants who together cover the busy on-call rota. All six upper GI surgeons do bariatric surgery.

RSH is a major contributor to the NELA project with over 300 emergency laparotomies a year and is also an approved site for the FLOELA trial looking at goal directed fluid therapy in the same cohort of patients.

Enhanced recovery is a key part of departmental practice and SATH has made a commitment to continually improve the service. The colorectal department is in the process of acquiring a surgical robot.

The Trust has recently invested and acquired a suite and Intuitive da Vinci Xi robotic system to perform robotic surgery in various specialities. This creates an exciting opportunity to get involved in anaesthetic service provision and planning in colorectal, urology and gynae-oncology robotic surgery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A formal job plan will be agreed between the successful candidate and their Clinical Director and consultant colleagues, on behalf of the Medical Director within 3 months of starting in post. A full-time job plan is based on a 10 PA working week. The job plan will be reviewed annually and is a prospective agreement that sets out the consultant's duties, responsibilities, and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external and will include personal objectives, detailing links to wider service improvements and trust strategic priorities.

For a full-time contract, the job plan will be divided on average per week (pro-rata for a part time post) as:

• 7.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care - includes clinical activity, clinically related activity, and predictable (0.6 PA) and unpredictable (0.65 PA) emergency work.
• 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - includes CPD, audit, teaching and research.

Covering CPD, teaching, research, audit, QI, leadership, simulation, guideline development, and more

We actively encourage consultants to develop specialist interests, and there is genuine scope to carve out a niche — whether that’s obstetrics, simulation, human factors, digital innovation, education, governance, or service redesign. You will be joining a department that values initiative, supports ambition, and celebrates expertise.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.