Consultant in Anaesthesia

NHS
Consultant in Anaesthesia

The closing date is 11 August 2026

We are looking for a candidate to join our team of anaesthetists working across our various sites to provide high level anaesthetic provision.

Torbay Hospital has a reputation for having a friendly working environment, excellent trainee feedback, and is a national innovator in day surgery and peri operative medicine.

We are one of the first departments in the country to have undergone and completed ACSA reaccreditation successfully, and the hospital is part of the HIP2 wave of major rebuild and refurbishment, which includes a new theatres build and will place a transformative digital environment at the heart of patient care.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will take part in the general on call rota at Torbay and will require obstetric and paediatric anaesthetic skills. Our on call commitment has evolved to provide the highest quality consultant delivered service whilst supporting a healthy work life balance. General anaesthetists contribute to a 1 in 20 non resident on call rota.

You will provide high quality consultant delivered care to all patients and provide clinical leadership and supervision to junior medical staff.

Job responsibilities

Detailed job description and responsibilities

• Communication and working relationships
  • Patients
  • GPs
  • Colleagues
  • Junior medical staff
  • Management
  • Other medical and service departments within the Trust
  • Liaison with other Trusts/Providers where necessary
• Planning and organisation
  • To be able to plan treatment care effectively
  • Prioritise workload efficiently and safely
• Analysis and judgement
  • To use best evidence based analytical judgement in providing care to patients
• Responsibility and accountability
  • To provide high quality consultant delivered care to patients
  • Provide clinical leadership and supervision of junior medical staff, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care are provided to all patients attending the hospital
  • Provide teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervise and train doctors in training and specialty doctors.
  • To be proactive in the department’s clinical governance agenda and take on leadership roles to support continuous learning and improvement, thereby abiding by the clinical and corporate governance policies of the Trust
• Responsibility for patients and client care
  • To be proactive in ensuring all patients receive rapid assessment, treatment and clinical decision making, whilst ensuring our standards to deliver safe quality and performance are delivered and sustained
• Policy and service responsibility
  • To adhere to policies and guidelines of the Trust
  • To participate in relevant audit and quality assurance processes
• Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources
  • Liaise with the Associate Medical Director, Associate Director of Operations and Operational Manager on budgetary issues
• Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management
  • Recruitment, appointment, teaching and educational supervision of junior medical staff including educational contracts, organisation of study leave, annual leave and rotas
• Information technology and administrative duties
  • To complete relevant medical records as per policies and procedures Use IT systems i.e. Picis, Galaxy, CLW, VitalPAC etc
• Responsibility for research and development
  • To take part in research and development within the department

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration / CCT Specialist Registration
• Other degrees (BSc/MSc/MD)

Experience

• Provide anaesthesia for the full range of DGH specialities
• Ability to prioritise clinical need
• Ability to supervise multi disciplinary teams
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients, both elective and emergency
• Sub speciality anaesthetic interest and expertise in orthopaedics, regional anaesthesia or ambulatory / day surgery

Skills

• Demonstrate familiarity with and understanding NHS structures
• Awareness of national strategic plans and constraints
• Ability to demonstrate willingness to lead clinical teams and develop an effective specialist clinical service
• Proven ability to teach clinical skills applying evidence based knowledge
• Evidence of innovative development and implementation of guidance
• Evidence of involving patients in practice
• Active interest in IT
• Ability to supervise post graduate research
• Evidence of research, publications or presentations
• Ability to undertake an on call rota and day to day service delivery of anaesthetics
• Able to concentrate for prolonged periods of time

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust