Locum Consultant in Pain | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

We are seeking full-time Locum Consultant to join our OUTSTANDING Trust in our Pain Management team, as part of the Anaesthetic department to cover maternity leave.

Applications are invited for a Consultant in Pain Management. This new appointment affords an exciting opportunity to join a busy, innovative, developing and expanding anaesthetic department. These posts are full time appointments for a 12 month period (10 PAs) with 9 PAs of Direct Clinical Care including 1 PA for Supporting Professional Activity.

The first robot assisted operation took place at the end of April 2022. Currently Colorectal, Gynaecological and urological robotic surgery is well established. The Trust is the only Trust in Merseyside undertaking emergency and elective Bariatric surgery.

The department also provides emergency anaesthetic cover for these services on a 24 –hour basis. The Department also provides a 24-hour epidural service for analgesia during labour, and a 24-hour anaesthetic service for obstetric emergencies including caesarean sections.

On call/emergency commitments

There are no on-call commitments attached to this post.

Out of hours, there is a 3-tier resident on-call service. Tiers 1 and 2 comprise trainees of which one is primarily for obstetrics duties. The 3rdTier is staffed by Speciality Doctors.

The 1st on call Consultant (non-resident) is required to liaise closely with the 2nd on call Consultant. The 2nd On Call Consultant (non-resident) would attend at the request of the 1st On Call Consultant Anaesthetist.

There is a consultant anaesthetic delivered weekend and public holiday orthopaedic trauma service providing all day (08:00 to 18:00) cover.

There are weekend plastic surgical trauma sessions, two of which benefit from anaesthetic cover.

Weekend Elective Activity

There is significant “Out-of-Hours” elective activity. This activity provides increased capacity required to meet clinical targets and is in line with the NHS moving toward seven day working.

The appointees will be required to undertake weekend and public holiday work which may include orthopaedic trauma service rota, the weekend plastic surgical trauma lists and OOHs elective workload subject to appropriate job planning and the varying requirements of the trust.

Locum posts attract 1 PA for Core Supporting Professional Activity (SPA); to meet the requirements of continuing professional development, enhanced appraisal and revalidation, audit, teaching and educational supervision of trainees.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Proposed Interview Date: 2nd Week of February 2025

This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025