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Location
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 Per annum
Profession
Medical doctor
Grade
Consultant
Deadline
29 May 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
02 May 2025

Job overview

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have vacancies for full time Consultants in General Anaesthesia. This Consultant post is based at Lincoln County Hospital however post-holders will be expected to operate flexibly across all hospital sites.

The Department of Anaesthesia is accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

For applicants who have specific subspecialty interests we would strongly encourage colleagues who wish to pursue other specialty interests to contact us to discuss in further detail.

Any Consultant who is unable to work full time will be considered. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed and negotiated on an individual basis.

Main duties of the job

About the Department

The Department of Anaesthesia provides a full range of anaesthesia services for the surgical specialties at Lincoln County Hospital, the Obstetric Unit, the Intensive Care Unit, the Accident & Emergency department, the Radiology department and the on site Department of Psychiatry. In addition it provides anaesthesia services to Louth.

The Main Theatre Unit consists of ten operating theatres and separate adult and paediatric theatre recovery areas. In addition there are two Day case theatres in the Obstetric/Gynaecology wing as well as an obstetric theatres located in the Delivery Suite. The Intensive Care and Day Case Units are located next to the Main Theatre Unit.

There are separate Consultant ITU and General Anaesthesia on-call rotas.  There are designated lead clinicians in all major subspecialties plus day care surgery, preoperative care, postoperative care and difficult airway management. In addition there are Consultant lead clinicians for clinical audit, clinical governance, medical equipment, duty rostering and paramedic training.

The Clinical Lead for Anaesthetics for United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals is Dr Rajesh Jaganathan.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

About the Role…

The Trust is committed to the provision of a high quality, consultant led service. The Appointee will be expected, in conjunction with his/her colleagues, to provide a comprehensive Anaesthetic service to ULTH.

The post-holder’s duties will be primarily at Lincoln County Hospital, Lincolnshire, but it is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations or outreach district general hospital clinics.

In addition he/she will be required to:

  • Undertake such other duties as may be identified to meet the needs of the service.
  • Take part in a 1:17  Consultant weekday night and weekend on call and to provide, on a reciprocal basis, emergency cover for colleagues during periods of absence.
  • Have continuing responsibility for patients in his/her care and for the proper functioning of the department.
  • Take part in team, department audits.

The post holder will be expected to partake in teaching activities for junior doctors in training and medical students.

The Job Plan and duties will be reviewed and updated on a regular basis in line with demands of the service.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name

Dr Rajesh Jaganathan

Job title

Trust-wide Clinical Lead for Anaesthetics

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

01522 573690