Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia with interest in Neuroanaesthesia

Job overview

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Neuroanaesthesia, based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

This post is available from February 2027 for a period of 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join an expanding, innovative and dynamic department of 85 substantive Consultants, 44 Residents and 15 Senior Clinical Fellows, providing anaesthetic services in this thriving modern teaching hospital.

You will be part of a team of 15 Neuroanaesthetists and will be expected to undertake neuro-anaesthesia, interventional neuroradiology, and general anaesthesia lists along with on-call in the Trauma service, as described in the job description.

The trust currently provides a 24/7 stroke thrombectomy service to the whole of East Anglia.

You will need to be fully registered with the GMC and ideally have a CCT in Anaesthesia or be within six months of award of CCT at the time of interview. Applications are welcomed from those unable to work full time for personal reasons or those wishing to job-share.

You will be required to have completed an SIA in Neuroanaesthesia (or equivalent), and must be able to work independently at Consultant level.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Addenbrooke’s is the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge and is a flagship NHS hospital, having achieved NHS Foundation Trust status in July 2004. It has strong international links particularly through the University and it is a world-class centre for medical research.

Addenbrooke’s is the local hospital for people living in the Cambridge area and is a regional/supra-regional referral centre for a number of specialties, including cancer surgery, neurosurgery, transplantation, plastic surgery, vascular and paediatrics. We are also the Major Trauma Centre for the East of England. As an internationally prominent teaching hospital, there is unparalleled capacity for teaching, including involvement in the high fidelity simulation centre, and research within the department as well as the wider biomedical campus.

The Neurosciences unit at Addenbrooke’s is the regional referral centre for adult and paediatric Neurosurgery and a quaternary referral centre for advanced neurosurgical and neuroradiological interventions with up to 6 neurosurgical areas per day. The department provides anaesthetic expertise for complex and innovative neurosurgical, major spinal and neuro-radiological procedures. The unit is also planning to build an intraoperative MRI suite. There is 2 interventional neuroradiology suites to accommodate the increasing referral for stroke thrombectomy.

We are also the main teaching hospital for neuroanaesthesia for all Stage 2 NTN residents in the East of England and your will therefor be required to actively participate in the teaching and training of these residents, as well as participating and delivering teaching on the 3 monthly formal neuro-anaesthesia resident teaching programme.

Please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached for further details on the main responsibilities and duties for this post.

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.