NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST

2 CONSULTANTS IN ANAESTHESIA WITH INTEREST IN ACUTE PAIN

(Full/Part time substantive)

Applications are invited for these posts at North Bristol NHS Trust.

North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South-West region providing medical, surgical, neonatal and maternity care for a population of almost a million people in the Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset area, employing more than 9,300 staff, with a revenue budget in excess of £500 million.

The Brunel Building has 802 beds 75% of which are single occupancy. The Women’s and Children’s Centre has a further 152 beds. There is a modern theatre complex over 2 floors of 29 theatres and interventional suites. Individual multipurpose medirooms provide the environment for admission, recovery and discharge, and offer the facility for performing regional blocks. There is a state of the art 46 bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) adjacent to the operating theatres, emergency department and imaging.

The Brunel Building has brought together the specialist teams formerly based at Frenchay Hospital and Southmead Hospital. These include regional adult services in Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and Burns, Neurosurgery, Vascular surgery, Urology and Renal services. NBT is a designated Major Trauma Centre servicing the Severn Network in the South West.

The Anaesthetic department became ACSA accredited in 2020.

Relevant clinical activity includes:

• Vascular Network –, centralised in the SW to NBT in Oct 2014, providing regional endovascular services
• Expanding regional anaesthesia service providing support to trauma and plastic surgery
• Colorectal centre –leading ERAS service providing a full range of colorectal services
• Bristol Urology Institute– tertiary referral centre for the South West and specialist robotic surgery
• Specialist Elective Orthopaedic Centre including complex deformity spinal surgery
• Designated Major Trauma Centre
• Bariatric Unit
• Large Neurosurgical centre active research and clinical trial agenda with innovative treatments not delivered elsewhere in the UK
• Plastics and Burns Unit
• Breast Care Centre providing majority of services as day case
• Busy Obstetric Unit with 6500 deliveries per year
• Acute Pain service including management of Burns, and Major Trauma patients.
• Chronic Pain Clinic with an international reputation for Spinal Cord Stimulator insertion
• An integrated pre-operative service including ERAS, Complex medical assessment, CPET, and Pharmacy.

The Southmead Hospital Bristol site includes the maternity department and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the new Bristol Breast Care Centre, clinical research teams and Severn Pathology. The post holder will have a varied programme covering a range of some of the above specialities dictated by their clinical interest and expertise. Additionally they will form part of the Acute Pain Team at NBT.

Closing date: 22nd June 2021.

Interview Date: TBC

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