Group Lead in Obstetric Anaesthesia | Barts Health NHS Trust

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional clinical leader to take on the pivotal role ofGroup Lead Obstetric Anaesthetist, guiding anaesthetic leadership across one of the UK’s largest and most diverse maternity and neonatal services.

Working closely with the Group Obstetrics Lead, Group Director of Midwifery and Maternity Triumvirate Teams, you will help drive our strategic ambitions for safe, high‑quality, compassionate care. You will play a central role in strengthening governance, supporting clinical transformation, and fostering an open, inclusive culture where learning, innovation and staff development thrive.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced senior clinician with a passion for improvement, partnership working and multidisciplinary leadership. You will champion excellence across our hospital sites, ensuring services are well‑led, responsive, effective and grounded in best practice. Your leadership will influence clinical quality standards, patient experience, service performance and staff wellbeing.

The Group Lead Anaesthetist will work closely with the Group Obstetrics Lead and Group Director of Midwifery as well as site Maternity Triumvirate Leads. As part of this team the post holder will be responsible for strategically supporting the Group Maternity and Neonatal Quality and Safety objectives. The Group Lead Anaesthetist will be required to demonstrate partnership working and collaboration with other senior leaders. Current and potential clinical leads are encouraged to consider whether you have the skills, drive and personality to carry out this exciting and challenging role.

The Lead will provide leadership and direction to Maternity and Neonatal Leadership Teams with a particular focus on providing high quality, safe, well-governed, productive and cost-effective services which support the trust in delivering its strategic objectives.

The Post holder will work closely with leadership teams across the Trust in valuing good performance, addressing poor performance, and enabling staff to identify concerns and ensure that these are resolved. They will provide support to all staff, fostering a culture which will develop strong and effective clinical leadership.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

Barts Health supports The Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage

The full job description and the person specification provide an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, outlining the qualification, skills, experience, and knowledge required.

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This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Jun 2026