Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthesia
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 252-2025-046
- Employer
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Darent Valley Hospital
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/10/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Consultant in Anaesthesia
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
This is a job advertisement for a Substantive Consultant in Anaesthesia. The department will strive to accommodate any sub specialty interest including paediatrics, perioperative medicine, intensive care medicine, trauma, obstetrics, acute pain, regional anaesthesia, and teaching.
Main duties of the job
The Trust conducts surgical services over two main sites: Darent Valley Hospital (DVH) Dartford, and Queen Mary’s Hospital (QMS) Sidcup. We have a combined 13 theatres over the two sites, with surgical specialties
including orthopaedics, urology, general/vascular surgery, ENT and gynaecology. There is an interest in laparoscopic colorectal surgery and there are 2 dedicated state-of-the-art theatres for this purpose. There
is one dedicated theatre for Robotic surgery as well.
The appointee will cover anaesthetic lists at Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup. There is a busy maternity unit with over 5,500 deliveries per year and a well-established epidural service. There is dedicated consultant obstetric anaesthetic cover during the week. We run dedicated high risk obstetric clinics and seeing more patients preoperatively and establish Enhanced recovery as the norm.
There are dedicated daily trauma lists as well as 8am to 2pm trauma lists at weekends. There are daily CEPOD lists that are consultant led.
The main theatres are situated next to the ICU, ED and the department of radiology. There are separate dedicated maternity theatres. The emergency department has recently undergone extensive refurbishment
in order to improve the level and efficiency of service provided to the patients.
Working for our organisation
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (DGT) is a dynamic and transforming Trust, committed to delivering the highest quality service to the communities it serves. DGT is an organisation that is genuinely committed to making you feel valued and important by supporting your physical and mental wellbeing, your career development and your general enjoyment of work.
There is an excellent Postgraduate Centre at Darent Valley Hospital. This provides lecture and tutorial rooms and a dining room. Numerous meetings for Hospital Doctors and General Practitioners are held at the centre. There are regular educational sessions and meetings covering Case Presentation, Journal club, Histopathology joint meetings, General, Urological and Vascular X-ray meetings and Mammography Meetings.
We committed to the concepts of equality and diversity. You are required to fulfil your responsibilities under this policy and to ensure that no individual receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, religion, creed, colour, race, ethnic or national origin, HIV status, age, social background, trade union membership or non-membership and is not placed at a disadvantage by requirements or conditions which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The appointee will be based at Darent Valley Hospital. The Consultant has a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and for the proper functioning of the department. He / she may be asked to cover lists in QMH Sidcup as a part of the job plan.
• He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients and the running of his/her clinical department.
• For purposes of management and use of resources he/she will be accountable to the Clinical Director of the Critical Care Directorate working closely with the General Manager and he/she will ensure the effective and efficient use of resources allocated.
• Participate actively and at times take a lead in research and clinical audit projects, which are considered to be an inherent part of normal clinical duties.
• The appointee will be responsible for the professional supervision, management of resident doctors and participate in their appointment with other Consultants.
• The appointee will be expected to participate in postgraduate teaching of medical staff and undergraduates attached to the Trust and in the training of all grades of staff. The department prides
itself in providing high quality training and trainee support including exam preparation is an important part of the consultant role.
• He/she will be expected to co-operate in the present agreed framework of the directorate management structure arrangements.
• The post holder undertakes, exceptionally, to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies
and unforeseen circumstances. All consultants have a duty in maintaining patient safety.
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring that he/she meets the national requirements for CPD, both internal and external.
• The Consultant will be required to assist management and its agents during investigations into claims alleging medical negligence and, where requested, to provide related factual statements. This
includes Coroner’s inquests.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- FRCA or equivalent
- Licence to practice and full registration with GMC;
- On the specialist register for Anaesthetics
- scheduled to obtain this within 6 months of the date of interview but before starting in post.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in any anaesthetic specialty sub interests including ICM.
Training and experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to do a wide range of anaesthetic lists including obstetrics and paediatrics. Able to look after sick children while awaiting retrieval along with the paediatric consultant
- Able to looks after high risk patients for elective and emergency surgery
- Demonstration of commitment to Anaesthesia such as relevant audits, publications, introduction of guidelines, relevant courses etc
Desirable criteria
- Additional training qualifications
Administration
Essential criteria
- Experience of organisation and running of Theatres in a busy DGH anaesthetic department
Desirable criteria
- Familiar with current structure of the National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.
Management
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage the theatre floor including the “Starred role” once settled into the job.
- An in depth understanding of the NHS in general - its challenges and its relevance to the consultant role.
Desirable criteria
- Management course and/or qualification
Quality Improvement Projects / Audit
Essential criteria
- Thorough understanding of principles of QIP / medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed QIP / audit projects in the past
Research and Publications
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an interest in research.
- Able to appraise research and audit results and apply the information in daily practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical research culminating in publication. Publication of review articles or case reports.
- Research Methodology Course.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of post-graduate teaching.
Desirable criteria
- Certificate course in teaching. Experience as an Educational Supervisor
- Teaching nursing staff and other professional groups.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Georgia Monantera
- Job title
- Clinical Director for Anaesthetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 428648
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