Group Lead in Obstetric Anaesthesia

Job overview

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional clinical leader to take on the pivotal role of Group Lead Obstetric Anaesthetist, guiding anaesthetic leadership across one of the UK’s largest and most diverse maternity and neonatal services.

Working closely with the Group Obstetrics Lead, Group Director of Midwifery and Maternity Triumvirate Teams, you will help drive our strategic ambitions for safe, high‑quality, compassionate care. You will play a central role in strengthening governance, supporting clinical transformation, and fostering an open, inclusive culture where learning, innovation and staff development thrive.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced senior clinician with a passion for improvement, partnership working and multidisciplinary leadership. You will champion excellence across our hospital sites, ensuring services are well‑led, responsive, effective and grounded in best practice. Your leadership will influence clinical quality standards, patient experience, service performance and staff wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

The Group Lead Anaesthetist will work closely with the Group Obstetrics Lead and Group Director of Midwifery as well as site Maternity Triumvirate Leads. As part of this team the post holder will be responsible for strategically supporting the Group Maternity and Neonatal Quality and Safety objectives. The Group Lead Anaesthetist will be required to demonstrate partnership working and collaboration with other senior leaders. Current and potential clinical leads are encouraged to consider whether you have the skills, drive and personality to carry out this exciting and challenging role.

The Lead will provide leadership and direction to Maternity and Neonatal Leadership Teams with a particular focus on providing high quality, safe, well-governed, productive and cost-effective services which support the trust in delivering its strategic objectives.

The Post holder will work closely with leadership teams across the Trust in valuing good performance, addressing poor performance, and enabling staff to identify concerns and ensure that these are resolved. They will provide support to all staff, fostering a culture which will develop strong and effective clinical leadership.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description and the person specification provide an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, outlining the qualification, skills, experience, and knowledge required.

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