Job requirements
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Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
MB ChB / MB BS or equivalent
- Clinical Experience
Four years’ full time post graduate training (or equivalent)
- Clinical Experience
At least 2.5 years working in Anaesthesia (within the last 4 years)
- Clinical Experience
Knowledge and understanding commensurate with registrar level in Anaesthetics
- Clinical Experience
Knowledge and experience of healthcare delivery within the UK
- Clinical Experience
Obstetric experience to level able to provide out-of-hours care without local supervision
- GMC/Specialist Registration
Full registration with the GMC with a licence to practice
- Research & Audit Experience
Understands principles
- Research & Audit Experience
Experience of participation
- Research & Audit Experience
Evidence of participation in audit or research
- Team Working & Interpersonal Skills
Ability to form constructive & effective professional relationships with existing health professionals
- Team Working & Interpersonal Skills
Ability to work with colleagues in a team
- Team Working & Interpersonal Skills
A caring attitude to patients, relatives, nurses and other health professionals
- Team Working & Interpersonal Skills
Ability & willingness to work the hours of the job and provide out of hours resident cover
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
ATLS, ALS, PALS
- Qualifications
FRCA (primary)
- Qualifications
Other Postgraduate qualification
- Clinical Experience
Experience as a registrar
- Clinical Experience
Advanced/autonomous clinical experience in: General Surgery (including upper GI and Breast); Vascular; Orthopaedics and Trauma; Obstetric anaesthesia; Gynaecology; Ear, Nose and Throat; Urology; Ophthalmology; Robotic Surgery; Intensive care
- Clinical Experience
Experience of working in a National Treatment Centre environment, specialising in arthroplasty and with enhanced recovery after surgery protocols.
- Team Working & Interpersonal Skills
Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional & national levels
- Team Working & Interpersonal Skills
Evidence of commitment to excellence in team working and human factors
Job details
- Job reference: 256654
- Salary: Specialty Doctor - 2022 (£64,158 - £99,975)
- Job closing date: 13/09/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: Raigmore Hospital
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 40
- Job posted date: 13/08/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
- Department: Anaesthetic Department - Raigmore Hospital
NHS HIGHLAND
Raigmore Hospital, Inverness
Specialty Doctor in Anaesthetics
Substantive - 40hours per week
Salary - £64,158 - £99,975 pro rata per annum
An opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced Specialty Doctor in Anaesthesia to join the friendly and dynamic Anaesthetic Department at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, as a member of the anaesthetic team. This is an exciting opportunity to continue and develop your practice in a wide variety of specialties. The duties will include elective and emergency theatre work, (adults and children), working in a 16 bedded Critical Care unit and providing an Obstetric anaesthetic service. Previous experience in Intensive Care and Obstetric anaesthesia is an advantage. Participation in departmental audit, seminars and teaching is actively encouraged.
The Anaesthetic Department presently has 31 Consultants, two Associate Specialists, eight Speciality Anaesthetists, around twelve Trainees affiliated to the Northern Deanery and six clinical development fellows.
Raigmore Hospital is a large district general hospital with approximately 450 beds, a catchment area of almost 30,000 square kilometres covering the entire Scottish Highlands and catering to a population of around 320,000. The hospital has a range of surgical specialties and a full range of diagnostic services including two CT scanners and an MRI scanner. The Anaesthetic department continues to expand with the National Treatment Centre-Highland being built and expected to open in early 2023. This will include two arthroplasty theatres for hip and knee replacements and three Eye theatres which will also allow for some hand and foot surgery.
Medical undergraduates from the University of Aberdeen rotate to Raigmore Hospital for medical and surgical training and the anaesthetic trainees are on rotation from the North of Scotland School of Anaesthesia. Raigmore has an extensive library located in the Clinical Science building and has close academic links with the Highlands and Islands Health Research Institute.
The City of Inverness is the Capital of the Highlands and offers a high quality of life with superb restaurants and excellent music and arts venues. The wild countryside of the Highlands offers spectacular hill-walking, sailing and cycling, as well as seasonal skiing and winter mountaineering.
Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made in the first instance to Dr David Blacoe, Service Clinical Director for Anaesthesia – Telephone 01463 705350 or email david.blacoe@nhs.scot
Job reference: 256654
Closing date: Midnight Sunday 13th September 2026
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This advert is for Specialty Doctor in Anaesthesia with NHS Highland in Inverness, Scotland. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Anaesthesia and Intensive Care role. The advertised salary is £64,158 - £99,975. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 13 Sep 2026.
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