Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
13 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Resuscitation
ALS provider
- Resuscitation
APLS/EPALS provider
- Qualifications
Full GMC Registration (or eligibility to obtain).
- Qualifications
FRCA or equivalent
- Qualifications
CCT in Anaesthesia and on GMC’s Specialist Register; or within 6 months of CCT from the date of the interview or have confirmed eligibility for Specialist Registration.
- Personal Qualities
Demonstrate leadership skills within a multidisciplinary team.
- Personal Qualities
Commitment to continuing professional development and clinical governance
- Personal Qualities
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enthusiasm and approachability.
- Clinical Experience
Wide range of anaesthetic experience in all surgical specialties excluding cardiac surgery and neurosurgery
- Clinical Experience
Experience of emergency surgery in all ages of patients above 2 years of age.
- Clinical Experience
Exposure to management of sick children in a DGH setting prior to transfer.
- Experience in Teaching
Demonstrable commitment and ability to teach and train undergraduates and junior doctors.
- Experience in Quality Improvement, clinical audit and research
Involvement in Quality Improvement Projects and Audit.
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Resuscitation
ALS/APLS/EPALS Instructor
- Personal Qualities
Ability to motivate staff, to facilitate appropriate changes in clinical practice and to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Clinical Experience
Advanced training/SIAs (or equivalent experience) in specialities relevant to the department, such as regional anaesthesia, obstetrics, peri-operative medicine, bariatric surgery, acute inpatient pain, ophthalmic surgery.
- Experience in Teaching
Simulation facilitator
- Experience in Quality Improvement, clinical audit and research
Relevant publication in peer-reviewed journals.
- Experience in Quality Improvement, clinical audit and research
Presentation at national and international meetings
Job overview
We are excited to invite applications for a Consultant Anaesthetist at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust. We are a friendly and dynamic department with over 30 consultants. We deliver anaesthetic services to a wide range of district general hospital specialities, allowing the successful candidates a varied and fulfilling consultant career.
The Anaesthetic Department at Kingston and Richmond Hospital consists of nearly 40 consultants and over 30 specialty doctors, trust grades and trainees. We are a motivated and supportive group and were one of the first departments to achieve RCOA accreditation (ACSA), demonstrating our dedication to providing an outstanding quality of care and our enthusiasm to engage with national projects.
Main duties of the job
A wide range of surgical specialties provide ample opportunity for maintaining and developing skills in many aspects of anaesthesia.
We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic individuals who will contribute to our friendly department, not just by providing high quality anaesthesia for the specialities we cover but also by supporting the department in the wider sense. We would like to see evidence of participation in quality improvement projects and research and Involvement in teaching and training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description for further details on the posts and for the person specification.
Interview date is 28-Oct-2026, in person at Kingston Hospital.
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.
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This advert is for Consultant Anaesthetist with Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust in Kingston upon Thames, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Anaesthesia and Intensive Care role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 05 Oct 2026.
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