Locum Consultant in Pain Management

(10 Programmed Activities per week, based at Edgware Community Hospital and Hadley Wood Hospital)

Applications are invited from suitably qualified individuals to join the Pain Management team at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, ambitious loucm consultant to contribute to further development of the Pain Management service across the Royal Free London. You will join a dynamic consultant and full multidisciplinary team and contribute to an on-going agenda of service transformation to provide a responsive and high-quality Pain Management service for the benefit of patients.

This post is to support a busy service delivering outpatient services at Edgware Community, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals, Day Surgery procedures at Hadley Wood Hospital and ward inpatient services at the Royal Free and Barnet Hospitals. This post includes sessions with the Anaesthetics department providing anaesthetic sessions at one of the Trust's operating theatre suites.

The core job plan involves fixed and cross-cover sessions based at Edgware Community, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Royal Free or Chase Farm sites. The post is Monday to Friday and does not include weekend working or have an on-call commitment.

Main duties of the job

Below is an example of an indicative timetable - actual working pattern may differ:

DCC

0.75

Standard Clinic (Basic, New & Follow Up)

DCC

3.25

Standard Day Case Theatre session

DCC

1.25

Consultant inpatient pain ward round

DCC

1.00

CPD SPA

SPA

1.00

MDT

DCC

0.25

Anaesthetic session

DCC

2.50

Total

10.00

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the topFor more information please follow link

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person Specification Experience

• Relavant Clinical Anaesthetic experience across major Specialities .
• Participation in audit and clinical governance
• Ability to teach and support juniors and other staff.
• Research and Development

Skills and Aptitudes

• Work with own Initiative
• Recognise limitations
• Effective team work
• Ability to participate in consultant on-call rota

Personal Qualities and Attributes

• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong communication
• Knowledge of resource management
• Ability to stay calm under pressure.

Others

• Enhanced DBS clearance
• Occupational health Clearance
• Commitment to CME / CPD and revalidation
• Compliance with trust policies incl. infection control and data protection

Education and Professional Qualifications

• GMC Registration with licence to practice.
• CCT ( or within 6 months of completion) or Equivalent

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.

Consultant in Pain Management & Anaesthetics

£113,565 to £150,569 a yearper annum plus £2,162 London Weighting