Consultant – Anaesthetics (Burns) | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Type: Trainee
Location: Chelmsford, CM17ET

Description:

Our Theatre and Anaesthetics Department are looking for a Consultant Anaesthetist to join our Broomfield Hospital team on a permanent full-time basis.

You will work collaboratively with your fellow Consultants to provide a modern and comprehensive Anaesthetic service to our patients. Interests in sub-specialities such as Paediatrics, Pain and Peri-operative Medicine are welcome.

Broomfield Hospital is the regional centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery and this post includes duties to the 6-bedded Burns Intensive Care Unit and to Burns Theatre. You will join a team of 10.5 WTE Consultants providing on call services to Burns and Plastics.

So, if you are dynamic, enjoy finding innovative solutions and enjoy working alongside a variety of levels and disciplines, we’d like to hear from you today!

If successful, some of your duties will include:

• Provision, with consultant colleagues, of a modern and comprehensive Anaesthetic, Intensive Care, Pain Medicine and Perioperative Medicine service to Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust. Successful applicants will be expected to integrate within and support all the current activities of the department.

• Clinical duties in Burns Intensive Care and Burns Theatre, for one clinical day per week, alternating weekly. Participation in the Burns Anaesthetic Consultant On Call Rota and provision of out-of-hours care where appropriate.

• Professional supervision, teaching, and management of resident medical staff, including trainee anaesthetists undertaking modular training in burns.

• Participation in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity.

• Participation in medical Audit and the Trust’s Clinical Governance processes. There is a monthly departmental directorate meeting on Audit Days that consultants are expected to attend.

• Appraisal, revalidation, job plan reviews and mandatory training updates are compulsory on an annual basis.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

We look forward to your application.

Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities.

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025

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