Job overview

Applications are invited for a fellow post within the department of paediatric anaesthesia at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC).

This fixed-term post starts in August 2025 and runs for 12 months, although the option to take up the post for 6 may be possible by mutual agreement. It is intended to give the experience and skills required for a consultant post within paediatric anaesthesia in a specialist centre or in a district general hospital. It is based in the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, part of the University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW).

BRHC is the Regional Children’s Hospital for the South West. It contains the regional PICU & retrieval service. A 31-cot NICU within the trust is the regional centre for cardiac and surgical referrals. 

The department provides anaesthesia for:

• Interventional Cardiology & Cardiac surgery
• General Paediatric & Neonatal surgery
• Urology
• Renal (including transplantation)
• Orthopaedic
• Oncology/Haematology (including Bone Marrow Transplantation)
• Dental
• ENT surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Burns/Plastics
• Cleft
• Scoliosis Surgery
• Ophthalmology

There is a perioperative pain service run by two of the consultants and five dedicated pain nurses.

Up to three months of the post (12 month post) can be spent working in paediatric intensive care, which may include shifts for the regional retrieval service WATCh, if desired.

Main duties of the job

The primary responsibility of the post holder is to participate in the service provided by the Anaesthetic Department through a programme of accompanied and unaccompanied theatre sessions. The post holder will have additional duties on-call, supporting the pain service during the daytime and out of hours.

The candidate will take part in the registrar on-call rota, up to 1:8 frequency, which is compliant with the EWTD and new junior doctor contract.

Fellows are encouraged to take part in departmental projects (audit, quality improvement, research etc.) and will be supported to carry out their own projects.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.