Job Description

Salary

75,684 - 105,684 depending on experience

Contractual hours

37.5

Basis

Part time

Region

South East

Job category/type

Clinical

Date posted

06/08/2025

Job reference

REQ001969

Consultant in Anaesthesia with a Special Interest in Pain

Sessional 0.2 FTE

Part Time - flexible hours considered

Salary: 75,685 to 105,684, pro rata, depending on experience

Location - Northwest London - Hillingdon

Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS

About the Role

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced

Consultant in Anaesthesia with an interest in Pain

to join our multidisciplinary team at North West London Integrated MSK Services- Hillingdon Borough. This is a unique opportunity to lead and develop pain management services, working collaboratively across specialties to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.

Who we're looking for.

We're looking for someone who has GMC registration, MBBS or Equivalent, fully Accredited for Higher Specialist Training, FFPMRCA or Equivalent and have a post-graduate qualification relevant to Pain or relevant experience.

You'll also have a strong commitment to patient care and continuous professional development along with excellent communication, leadership and team-working skills.

We are Cora Health:

Cora is a leading provider of community healthcare services in the UK. We deliver MSK (musculoskeletal) services,

diagnostic imaging, day-case surgery, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, persistent pain management, mental health, orthopaedic and rheumatology services.



We want everyone to have the opportunity to thrive. We help people help themselves, to get back to their best or to simply find a new way forward.

What you'll be doing

Develop and implement pain management plans for patients with acute and chronic pain. Providing clinical guidance and advice to colleagues, including advanced practice pain clinicians, in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team structure.


Practice at consultant grade in Pain in keeping with functioning as an expert Pain clinician (prescribing, conducting complex case reviews, performing procedures/injection list, communicating with primary and secondary care, leading MDT patient reviews).



Engage in teaching and mentoring, education and supervision of junior staff. Supporting the delivery of a high quality community pain management service, in line with the priorities of the service and ICB. This may include, but is not limited to: Promotion of long-term condition management for chronic MSK conditions, with a focus on quality of life, i.e. function, emotional well-being, social functioning, daily activities and return to work.



+ Providing support to patients to manage fitness, physical health and mental wellbeing, with education around optimisation of long-term conditions. This would include the use of social prescribing, peer support, third-sector involvement, support to remain or return to work and recognition and support of mental health needs
+ Partnership working across the MSK landscape, including both NHS and third-sector organisations, as well as with the ICB and patient partnerships to design, evaluate and improve service provision, with continuous quality improvement based on patient reported outcome and experience data.
+ Providing a holistic, evidence-based continuum of care for patients with MSK presentations and ensuring they are provided with standardised information and seen at the right time in the right place, according to locally agreed pathways. Low value over-diagnosis and over-treatment should be addressed, whilst improving access for appropriate patients to evidence-based specialist interventions
+ The service should work to identify areas of variation (at primary, community and secondary care levels) to reduce inequalities in access and best establish 'value' across the MSK health economy.
+ Enhance the management of patients within primary and community care, and actively manage the demand for secondary care services ensuring patients have quicker access to appropriate treatment in the appropriate setting.

Why work for Cora Health?

We are dedicated to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and rewarding our colleagues. We continue to reward our staff with competitive salaries and a great range of employee benefits. These include:


A minimum of 5% of your hours is bespoke personal development time Access to an internal network of Consultant clinicians (medical and AHPs) that provide leadership, educational, research and clinical support. Access to the full content (live and recorded sessions) of the Cora Clinical Education Academy Access to support and engagement with our entire MDT clinical workforce via + Emergency clinical on call rota
+ Clinical supervision
+ Coaching and mentoring
+ Online clinical resource and chat network
+ Internal conferences and study days
+ Clinical support tools/pathways

Up to 30 days holiday (plus public holidays) option to buy additional annual leave an additional day off for your birthday online discounts portal employer pension contributions salary sacrifice schemes an employee assistance programme performance related pay rewards team building/away days reimbursement of professional body membership fees for clinicians




These benefits are our way of saying thank you to our colleagues.