Locum Consultant in Neuroanaesthesia

Addenbrooke’s is the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge 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.

Addenbrooke’s is the local hospital for people living in the Cambridge area and is a regional/supra-regional referral centre for a number of 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.

The Neurosciences unit at Addenbrooke’s 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 is an active proposal to have 2 interventional neuroradiology suites to accommodate the increasing referral for stroke thrombectomy.

Please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached for further details on the main responsibilities and duties for this post.