Consultant Anaesthetist special interest in Pain

Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Pain NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant

Main area:
Anaesthetics.

Contract:

Permanent.

Hours:

Full time – 40 hours per week (10 PAs). Job
-MED-PRUH-7788369

Employer:

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Site:
Princess Royal University Hospital.

Location:

Orpington. Salary: £109,725 – £145,478 per annum excluding London zone allowance. Salary period:
Yearly. Closing: 08/03/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of ≈£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across five main sites in South East London and specialist services from King’s College Hospital sites at Denmark Hill (Camberwell) and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) in Beckenham.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance and offer flexible working options in line with service requirements.

This is a replacement Consultant post. The remit is to work within the multi-disciplinary team to provide and develop care for patients at the PRUH and South Sites. The role includes responsibility for Pain services at PRUH & South Sites, involving managing clinics, ward-based pain management, and Pain intervention lists. The post holder will provide and develop Anaesthetic and Pain services to the Trust’s patients and will play an active role in teaching and training of junior staff.

The post will be based at the PRUH, Orpington, Sidcup and Beckenham sites. The proposed Job Plan up to 10 PAs is attached and is subject to review within 3 months of starting.

The On-Call commitment is 1:12 rota (Category

A). There is a commitment to undertake routine job-planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job-planned PAs.

All employees are expected to undertake work on Trust sites as required. As a senior employee, you will work with and support other clinical, medical, and managerial colleagues to provide high-quality healthcare.

Key responsibilities include:

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a large teaching Trust with five hospitals across South East London and Kent. We employ nearly 14,000 staff and treat over 1.5 million patients annually. We offer a full range of local and specialist services and are recognised for work in liver disease, transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma and emergency medicine.

• Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
• Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do

• Provide high-quality care to patients, including all treatment and related management duties for the Care Group’s proper functioning
• Shared responsibility for 24/7 cover for the Unit on a rota basis; cover colleagues’ annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners with other consultants
• Carry out teaching, examinations and accreditation duties; contribute to CPD and clinical governance
• Outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group
• Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in line with the Trust’s R&D framework
• Contribute to audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance and Learning from Deaths
• Contribute to the Care Group’s Business Plan and service developments with internal and external agencies
• Work within the contracted level of service and operating plan
• Provide professional leadership for all staff in the specialty and support…