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Locum Consultant in Neuro Anaesthesia and Stroke Thrombectomy
| Posting date: | 13 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9180-25-0216 |
Summary
Addenbrookes is the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge and the East of England School of Anaesthesia and ICM and is a flagship NHS hospital, having achieved NHS Foundation Trust status in July 2004. It has strong international links particularly through the University and it is a world-class centre for medical research. Addenbrookes is also the local hospital for people living in the Cambridge area and is a regional/supra-regional referral centre for several specialties, including cancer surgery, neurosurgery, transplantation, plastic surgery, vascular and paediatrics. We are also the Major Trauma Centre for the East of England. As an internationally prominent teaching hospital, there is unparalleled capacity for teaching, including involvement in the high-fidelity simulation centre, and research within the department as well as the wider biomedical campus. Neuroanaesthesia at CUH has ICPNT accreditation and runs a very successful international neuroanaesthesia fellowship. The East of England School of Anaesthesia SIA in Neuroanaesthesia training is delivered at CUH. The Neurosciences unit at Addenbrookes is the regional referral centre for adult and paediatric Neurosurgery and a quaternary referral centre for advanced neurosurgical and neuroradiological interventions with up to 6 neurosurgical areas per day. The department provides anaesthetic expertise for complex and innovative neurosurgical, major spinal and neuro-radiological procedures. The unit is also planning to build an intraoperative MRI suite. There are 2 interventional neuroradiology suites to accommodate interventional neuroradiology and referrals for stroke thrombectomy. You will be part of a team of 15 neuroanaesthetists and will be expected to undertake neuroanaesthesia, stroke thrombectomy and some general anaesthesia lists along with on call in Trauma (which includes Major trauma) on weekdays. There is no weekend on call responsibility. The trust currently provides stroke thrombectomy services to the whole of East Anglia covering all 7 days of the week. The successful candidate will be expected to take part in providing daytime cover for this evolving stroke thrombectomy service, in addition to covering neuro theatres. Please refer to the Job description and Person Specification.