Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia and Maternity
The closing date is 24 November 2026

Job summary
Locum Consultant - 12 months
The post offer exciting opportunities for highly motivated anaesthetists to join a dynamic, expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust based at Ormskirk & Southport Hospitals.
The interviews are anticipated to take place on 10th December 2026.

Main duties of the job
The Department provides anaesthetic services for elective surgery in: General Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burns Surgery, Urology, ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Gynaecology. The Trust has taken delivery of a surgical robot. The first robot assisted operation took place at the end of April 2022. Currently Colorectal, Gynaecological and urological robotic surgery is well established. The Trust is the only Trust in Merseyside undertaking emergency and elective Bariatric surgery.
Surgery in the Trust is undertaken on both the Ormskirk Hospital and Southport Hospital sites.

About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

• Acute Care: Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care: Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services: Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
• Specialist Regional Services: We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Details
Date posted: 12 November 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum (Grade YM 73)
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 409-S8298087
Job locations: Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals, Warrington Road, Prescot, L35 5DR, United Kingdom

Job description
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Advertising date: 11th November 2026
Closing date: 24th November 2026
Shortlisting date: 26th November 2026
Proposed Interview date: 10th December 2026
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Full GMC registration and on Specialist Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent at time of interview. CESR candidates must have written GMC confirmation of successful application.
• Essential: MB ChB or equivalent medical qualification
• Essential: FRCA or equivalent
• Desirable: MD/MSc or equivalent medical qualification

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Essential: Minimum of 12 months recent experience of working in anaesthesia within the NHS
• Essential: Successful completion of Higher Training, or equivalent, in General Duties, including the following non-essential Units of Training: 1. General, urological, and gynaecological surgery
• Essential: Successful completion of Higher Training, or equivalent, in Paediatric Anaesthesia
• Essential: Successful completion of Higher Training, or equivalent, in intensive care medicine
• Essential: Evidence of advanced training, or equivalent, preferably in at least one of the General Duties Units of Training
• Essential: Ability to stabilise and provide initial management of the critically ill and/or emergency anaesthetic patient.
• Essential: Current ALS Provider
• Essential: Current PLS/ APLS Provider
• Essential: Understanding of the management and leadership responsibilities of a consultant within the NHS
• Essential: Evidence of active and consistent engagement with clinical audit and/or QIP(s)
• Essential: Recognition by the GMC as a Clinical Supervisor
• Essential: Evidence of delivering teaching to undergraduate students, postgraduate doctors and/or allied healthcare professionals
• Essential: Excellent verbal and written English skills
• Essential: Effective communication and interpersonal skills, approachability, and ability to motivate and develop others
• Essential: Ability to lead change and the development of services and promote excellence and best practice
• Desirable: Advanced training or equivalent in general, urological, and gynaecological surgery
• Desirable: 6-month attachment for Higher Training in Paediatric Anaesthesia
• Desirable: Good IT and computing skills.
• Desirable: Completion of appropriate management/leadership course(s)
• Desirable: Previous participation in a management/leadership role
• Desirable: Recognition by the GMC as an Educational Supervisor
• Desirable: Formal training/qualification in Teaching and/or Learning
• Desirable: Life support course instructor
• Desirable: Evidence of recent and current research, with relevant publications
• Desirable: Formal training in Research Methodology
• Desirable: Knowledge of the up-to-date literature
• Desirable: Membership of appropriate professional society (ies).

Other

• Essential: Ability to travel between sites within service requirements
• Desirable: Caring and responsible attitude to colleagues

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.
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address: Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals, Warrington Road, Prescot, L35 5DR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Lead Anaesthetics, Dr Peter Gledhill, Peter.Gledhill@merseyandwestlancs.nhs.uk, 01695656421

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