Fixed Term Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia

Job overview

Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia at North Bristol NHS Trust.

An exciting opportunity to join the Pain Medicine and Anaesthetic Departments based at the state-of-the-art Brunel Building located on the Southmead site in North Bristol.

Main duties of the job

Work of the Pain Clinic

The Pain Clinic is based in Gloucester House on the Southmead site. There are 6 Pain Clinicians 5 of whom have anaesthetic commitments. We see 2400 patients a year in outpatient pain clinics and the pain service is recognised for advanced pain training. Last year over 60 stimulation devices were inserted.

We provide the following services:

• Acupuncture
• TENS clinics
• Botox for migraine
• Qutenza clinic
• Comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment and management of patients including physiotherapy advice, ‘Back Pack’ programme, self-management programme, sleep programme as well as a full pain management programme for 700 patients/year and individual psychology sessions.

We are a tertiary referral service for neuromodulation for pain and gynae mesh pain.

We have strong links with our orthopaedic, urology, gynaecology and neurosurgical colleagues and the neuromodulation service is run jointly by pain and neurosurgery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Anaesthetic Department

The Anaesthetic Department at Southmead Hospital consists of around 90 Consultant Anaesthetists and Intensivists.

We are based in a large open plan office adjacent to theatres supported by 4 secretaries. There are excellent facilities within the office for meetings and teaching, and the hospital offers further access to seminar rooms, lecture theatres and simulation facilities.

Within the department we have around 20 junior and 15 senior trainees as well as 10 Specialty Doctors and Associate Specialists.

Our theatre complex is located over 2 levels with 25 operating theatres and 4 interventional radiology suites. There are no anaesthetic rooms in the Brunel building, all anaesthesia is undertaken in theatre. Admission, recovery, and day case discharge is provided in our innovative medirooms; multipurpose, fully equipped single occupancy rooms surrounding the theatre pods. MRI and CT scanners, and interventional cardiology are immediately adjacent to our emergency theatre floor.

We have one of the largest urology units in the country with specialist robotic surgery. We have 5 theatres dedicated to elective orthopaedic surgery producing some of the most favourable morbidity and mortality figures nationwide. With elective and emergency upper and lower limb surgery and renal vascular access, NBT has a large number of patients who benefit from regional anaesthesia.

We provide anaesthesia for all the NBT surgical specialties, staff a 42 bedded ICU and support a busy ED and our Major Trauma Service. There is a comprehensive anaesthetist led preoperative assessment clinic in the Brunel Building. 2 Consultant Anaesthetists run clinics between 9am and 5pm 5 days a week. Our CPEX testing facility is located in this clinic. The Obstetric Unit has 6,500 deliveries a year and manages complex high dependency cases.

To maximise efficient use of our theatre resources we undertake 2 and 3 session days for elective and urgent work with session times of 0830-12:30, 13:00-17:00, and 17:00-20:30. The post holder would be required to incorporate such work into routine job plans and will be expected to adopt a flexible approach to this work. Through annual job planning the postholder will have the opportunity to become involved in other areas of expertise in services provided at NBT