Consultant Anaesthetist (Paediatric Anaesthesia) | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, E1 1FR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7491935/259-MED7491935RLH |
Summary
This post is a substantive consultant post in paediatric anaesthesia based at The Royal London Hospital. The vacancy has arisen due to a retirement. The post holder will be an employee of Bart’s Health and there may be future opportunities or requirements to work at any of the other hospitals in the Barts Health group.
This is a general post for a consultant anaesthetist in Paediatric anaesthesia, with an interest in acute pain management and regional anaesthesia. The appointee must be able to work flexibly and be able to cover the range of specialties provided for in the Paediatric Anaesthesia service at The Royal London Hospital.
Barts Health NHS Trust is one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers and the largest trust in the NHS. It was created on 1 April 2012 by bringing together three Trusts: Barts and The London NHS Trust, Newham University Hospital NHS Trust and Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust. The new trust has a turnover of approximately £1.1 billion and has approximately 15,000 employees. We also work together in partnership with BHRUT (Barking, Havering, Romford University Trust) as part of an North East London ICS.
Together our hospitals - Newham University Hospital in Plaistow, St Bartholomew’s (Barts) in the city, The Royal London in Whitechapel and Whipps Cross in Leytonstone - deliver high quality clinical care to the people of East London and further afield.
The hospitals offer a full portfolio of services that serve the needs of the local community and are home to some of Britain’s leading specialist centres including cancer, cardiac, trauma and emergency care. Barts Health also has one of the UK’s busiest children’s hospitals and internationally renowned surgical facilities.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We provide anaesthetic services across all our hospitals: The Royal London Hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital, Newham Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts). Future reconfiguration of services may lead to movement of anaesthetic staff across hospitals.
AtSt Bartholomew’s Hospital: Cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, breast and endocrine, oncology, radiotherapy and cardiothoracic. With the exception of ophthalmic and breast surgery, all other surgical services moved to the Royal London Hospital in 2012.
At theRoyal London Hospital: POA, Pain – acute and chronic, Trauma and orthopaedics, gynae-oncology, gynaecology, urology, HPB, colorectal, ENT, general and plastic surgery, neurosurgery, vascular, renal, maxillofacial, dental, paediatrics, obstetrics and interventional radiology.
Paediatric Anaesthesia
The paediatric anaesthetic department consists of 16 consultants, as well as designated paediatric anaesthetic residents. We have specific links to the Paediatric Critical Care (PCCU), the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS), and the Trauma Service. We cover all surgical specialities (excluding cardiac and burns surgery), and manage children presenting with multiple complex co-morbidities, and neonates.
We co-ordinate an acute paediatric pain service (along with two specialist pain nurses) and support the level 3 medical and surgical neonatal unit, Paediatric A&E (the biggest in London), and PCCU. Paediatric surgery has its own dedicated theatre floor with 4 operating theatres and associated wards. We also support children having general anaesthesia for interventional radiology, endoscopy, MRI and in a stand-alone dental institute.
We provide structured training to residents from the School of Anaesthesia during their paediatric block; afford opportunities for research and audit. We host an international Paediatric Anaesthesia Education Day every November
This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025