• Job Description

  Req#: C9372-25-0444?language=en&page=481&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Consultant in Anaesthetics/Intensive Care with a specialist interest in Obstetrics to join our team. The successful candidate will join a team of friendly and dynamic Anaesthetic and Intensive Care Consultants. We are dedicated to developing the department, team and working towards the wider organisational goals and culture.

  The example job plan is based around sessions in Anaesthesia and participation in the out of hours service.

  This is an exciting time to be joining the trust, as plans to reconfigure are under way.

  Main duties of the job

  Please see job description and person specification for full details

  To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility.

  The successful applicant will take part in the general on call rota, either at Calderdale or Huddersfield depending on service requirements and prior discussion with the Clinical Directors.

  Surgical specialties provided by the Trust include ENT, Trauma & Orthopaedics, General, Ophthalmic, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Upper GI (including Bariatrics), Urological (including laparoscopic resections), Colorectal, Robotic and Plastic surgery. Some paediatric work is undertaken within these specialties.

  About us

  We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

  We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

  We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

  We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

  Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

  Details

  Date posted

  30 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Hospital medical and dental staff

  Grade

  Consultant

  Salary

  £109,725 to £145,478 a year Per Annum (dependent on experience)

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  372-SURG-MD183

  Job locations

  Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

  Acre Street

  Huddersfield

  HD3 3EA

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  This is a Full-Time post providing 10 Programmed Activities (PAs), including SPA 1.5 PA, but applicants wishing to work part-time are also encouraged to apply and job plans will be adjusted accordingly, and by negotiation with appointees.

  Applicants must be registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practice.

  Pre-interview meetings or visits are highly encouraged.

  For further information, or to arrange a visit, please contact:

  Clinical Director for Operating Services, Dr Raju Puttaswamy, at01484 342574, or email Raju.Puttaswamy@cht.nhs.uk

  Clinical Director for Critical Care, Outreach, CVAD and Chronic Pain, Dr Marcus Beadle, at 01484 342574, or emailMarcus.beadle@cht.nhs.uk

  General Manager Mrs Ruth Lush email ruth.lush2@cht.nhs.uk

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  This is a Full-Time post providing 10 Programmed Activities (PAs), including SPA 1.5 PA, but applicants wishing to work part-time are also encouraged to apply and job plans will be adjusted accordingly, and by negotiation with appointees.

  Applicants must be registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practice.

  Pre-interview meetings or visits are highly encouraged.

  For further information, or to arrange a visit, please contact:

  Clinical Director for Operating Services, Dr Raju Puttaswamy, at01484 342574, or email Raju.Puttaswamy@cht.nhs.uk

  Clinical Director for Critical Care, Outreach, CVAD and Chronic Pain, Dr Marcus Beadle, at 01484 342574, or emailMarcus.beadle@cht.nhs.uk

  General Manager Mrs Ruth Lush email ruth.lush2@cht.nhs.uk

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • FRCA/FFICM (or equivalent)
  • Applicants must be Registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practise
  • Specialist registration for Anaesthetics/Intensive Care is preferred (or within 6 months of being admitted to the register for trainees, if currently in a training programme in the UK) but consideration will be given to applicants with relevant consultant level experience or trainees in a UK training scheme who are within 6 months of attaining specialist registration.

  Desirable

  • Relevant higher degree

  Experience and Achievements

  Essential

  • Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of the Anaesthetics/Intensive Care specialty

  Desirable

  • Also, should have significant minor Anaesthetics/Intensive Care procedures experience and any other post graduate qualifications that can advance the department needs would be preferable
  • Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
  • Attendance at a recognised management course
  • Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions

  Teaching and Training

  Essential

  • Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of postgraduate doctors and non-medical staff.

  Desirable

  • Academic achievements/evidence of familiarity with research methods which have resulted in publications
  • Training in clinical and educational supervision
  • Attendance at a teaching course

  Audit and Research

  Essential

  • Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects

  Desirable

  • Critical Appraisal Skills
  • Evidence of knowledge of research methodology

  Disposition-Adjustment/Attitude/Commitment

  Essential

  • Good communication and empathy skills with patients
  • Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
  • Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
  • Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis
  • Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff
  • Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff
  • Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare

  Practical/Intellectual Skills/Personal Qualities

  Desirable

  • Evidence of continual learning and development
  • Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
  • Evidence of innovation
  • Ability to use a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, email and internet browser

  General

  Essential

  • Eligibility to work in the UK
  • Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
  • For areas requiring EPP Clearance (Exposure Prone Procedures), this will also be a requirement of the health screening
  • An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required with the Disclosure and Barring Service

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • FRCA/FFICM (or equivalent)
  • Applicants must be Registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practise
  • Specialist registration for Anaesthetics/Intensive Care is preferred (or within 6 months of being admitted to the register for trainees, if currently in a training programme in the UK) but consideration will be given to applicants with relevant consultant level experience or trainees in a UK training scheme who are within 6 months of attaining specialist registration.

  Desirable

  • Relevant higher degree

  Experience and Achievements

  Essential

  • Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of the Anaesthetics/Intensive Care specialty

  Desirable

  • Also, should have significant minor Anaesthetics/Intensive Care procedures experience and any other post graduate qualifications that can advance the department needs would be preferable
  • Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
  • Attendance at a recognised management course
  • Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions

  Teaching and Training

  Essential

  • Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of postgraduate doctors and non-medical staff.

  Desirable

  • Academic achievements/evidence of familiarity with research methods which have resulted in publications
  • Training in clinical and educational supervision
  • Attendance at a teaching course

  Audit and Research

  Essential

  • Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects

  Desirable

  • Critical Appraisal Skills
  • Evidence of knowledge of research methodology

  Disposition-Adjustment/Attitude/Commitment

  Essential

  • Good communication and empathy skills with patients
  • Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
  • Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
  • Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis
  • Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff
  • Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff
  • Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare

  Practical/Intellectual Skills/Personal Qualities

  Desirable

  • Evidence of continual learning and development
  • Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
  • Evidence of innovation
  • Ability to use a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, email and internet browser

  General

  Essential

  • Eligibility to work in the UK
  • Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
  • For areas requiring EPP Clearance (Exposure Prone Procedures), this will also be a requirement of the health screening
  • An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required with the Disclosure and Barring Service

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

  Acre Street

  Huddersfield

  HD3 3EA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

  Acre Street

  Huddersfield

  HD3 3EA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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