Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long almost 900 year history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. Our values; caring, ambitious and inclusive guide us in everything we do and are central to how we deliver our plans. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients., Evelina London Children's Hospital (ELCH) opened on 31st October 2005. It was constructed using charitable funding on the STH site and is accessed via link corridors from the St Thomas' Hospital building. It is now one of the UK's leading paediatric teaching hospitals. Our vision is to be a world leading centre of life-changing care for children, young people and their families. In 2016 Evelina London Children's Hospital achieved an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We treat 120,000 chidren every year.

The Paediatric Anaesthetic Group provides ~11000 anaesthetics a year. Just less than half are under the age of five and over 200 are neonates. From April 2022, all children's cardiac, respiratory, and intensive care services provided on the Evelina London Children's Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital sites came together as a single clinical directorate (CRIC) within the Evelina London Clinical Group. Other paediatric surgical services include general surgery, ENT (including specialist airway surgery), cleft and plastic surgery, nephro-urology (including renal transplantation), orthopaedic/spinal, ophthalmic and dental surgery. The Anaesthetic Services include a Pre-Assessment Clinic and an Acute Pain Service., The Department of Anaesthesia is seeking a full-time (10 PA) Substantive Consultant with a special interest in Paediatric Anaesthesia to join a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking team. The department is currently involved in many exciting initiatives and is looking for an individual with the appropriate skills to complement this team and help keep the service in the forefront of clinical and academic excellence. The team is also looking to expand in the near future. Evelina London Children's Hospital has recently opened a new stand-alone Children's Day Surgery Centre adjacent to the original hospital.