# Consultant Anaesthetist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-anaesthetist/583077d8-7277-4af1-9c8f-5dc3aa71dd8b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-anaesthetist/583077d8-7277-4af1-9c8f-5dc3aa71dd8b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** The Queen Elizabeth Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week (on-call) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T12:58:20.009Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Kings_Lynn/The_Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Kings_Lynn_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Anaesthetics/Anaesthetics-v8312345 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8312345?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.qehkl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent Consultant Anaesthetist to join our team. This role will service elective and emergency lists at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site in the Main Theatres, the Day Surgery Unit and the Sandringham Unit. In this role you will collaborate with Consultant Anaesthetists to ensure comprehensive and coordinated high quality anaesthetic services that meet the requirements of the Trust’s objectives. Time is allocated for supporting professional activities and these will be scheduled by mutual agreement with the successful candidate. ### Main duties of the job Clinical - To provide a consultant-level anaesthetic service for elective and emergency services - To provide high quality patient care, minimising risks and maintaining patient safety in accordance with the GMC’s Good Medical Practice - To help in the delivery of effective services within the agreed budget - To co-operate with other departments and agencies to meet the objectives of the Anaesthetic Department - To accept to work flexibly within a nominally fixed timetable Organisational / Managerial - To supervise junior staff as appropriate - To provide leadership and health-management skills - To maintain the Directorate principles of effective multi-disciplinary team working - To ensure personal knowledge of, and compliance with, Trust and departmental protocol Teaching - To help provide training, supervision and career development to junior doctors of all grades in the Anaesthetic Department - To contribute to the education of medical and nursing students, paramedics and trainees in other specialities as required. We have recently increased our teaching commitments to the medical schools of Cambridge University and the University of East Anglia ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information about this exciting opportunity, please see the attached job description and person specification. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Anaesthetics. - At least seven years of providing obstetric anaesthesia - At least seven years of providing emergency / on call anaesthesia - At least seven years of providing major trauma anaesthesia - At least seven years of providing resuscitation care - At least two years of providing critical care medicine ### Skills, Abilities and Training **Essential** - Formal training and experience in management relevant to anaesthesia in the NHS or equivalent training or experience elsewhere, for example Head of Department, Governance Lead or similar lead role. - Experience of teaching trainees to a standard required by the RCoA (with evidence of suitable teaching / supervision qualification) - Ability to supervise and initiate quality improvement projects by trainees and to develop trainee presentations at national and international level. - Ability to deliver teaching for both undergraduates and postgraduates. - Evidence of affecting clinical governance. - Experience of various audits in which you played lead role, together with contributions to service improvement and risk management projects. ### Qualifications and Registration **Essential** - MBBS or equivalent medical qualification. - FRCA or equivalent medical qualification - Entry on GMC Specialist Register for anaesthesia (CCT) or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of specialist training at the time of interview. If not eligible for entry on to the Specialist Register, must be able to provide strong evidence of meeting CESR eligibility criteria. ## Documents - [our values (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2570) - [our trust (pdf, 674.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2671) - [say hello to stream (pdf, 7.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2393) - [establishing identity (pdf, 243.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1315) - [recruitment policy overview (pdf, 125.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2961) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 644.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10694371) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.