Consultant Anaesthetist
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Consultant Anaesthetist to join our well-established and highly skilled Anaesthetics Department. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated clinician to contribute to the delivery of high-quality anaesthetic services across the Trust.
The successful candidate will provide comprehensive elective and emergency perioperative anaesthetic care and will play an active role in the Trust's general anaesthetic on-call rota. The post-holder will undertake the full range of duties and responsibilities expected of a Consultant Anaesthetist, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure the highest standards of patient care.
In addition to delivering excellent clinical services, the successful candidate will be expected to maintain and develop their professional knowledge and skills, participate in clinical governance and appraisal activities, and contribute to the education and training of medical, nursing and allied health professional colleagues.
This role offers the opportunity to join a supportive team of experienced anaesthetists within a forward-thinking organisation committed to delivering safe, effective and patient-centred care across all of its hospital sites.
The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering anaesthetic services across WWL. Working across the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wrightington Hospital and Leigh Infirmary, the post holder will provide anaesthetic support to a wide range of specialties including orthopaedics, trauma, general surgery, ENT, obstetrics and gynaecology, urology, paediatrics and day-case surgery.
The role includes participation in elective and emergency anaesthetic services, the departmental on-call rota, and pre-operative assessment clinics, including high-risk pathways. The successful candidate will contribute to specialist services such as major orthopaedic surgery, obstetric anaesthesia, critical care, trauma and chronic pain.
The post holder will actively participate in clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, morbidity and mortality meetings, and service development. They will also support the education, supervision and training of Resident Doctors, Clinical Fellows, SAS Doctors and other healthcare professionals, with opportunities to participate in simulation and teaching programmes.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Medical Workforce Team Job title: People Services Email address: medical.staffing@wwl.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01942 244000
Recruitment agencies are kindly requested not to contact us regarding this vacancy, as we will be managing the recruitment process directly and intend to recruit to the post ourselves.
