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Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia

10 PAs

The James Cook University Hospital

This opportunity is to join a dynamic, friendly and supportive team of 25 critical care consultants in a busy 33 bedded, tertiary referral major trauma centre hospital located at the top of the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors.

The post holder will complement and develop existing services through the provision of specialist knowledge & expertise in intensive care medicine. The post holder is therefore required to have full registration with the GMC and a valid licence to practice and be on the specialist register for intensive care medicine or be within 6 months of CCT or equivalent at the time of interview.

Applicants should be dual registered on the specialist register for intensive care medicine and anaesthetics or be within 6 months of CCT or equivalent at the time of interview.

The post will be based primarily at  The James Cook University Hospital, with job plans reflecting the individual interests of the appointee. Consultants in dual CCT specialities may be required to undertake some clinical commitment at The Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, dependent on their dual speciality.

The General Critical Care Unit presently incorporates 33 beds, used flexibly between level 3 and level 2 depending on patient need. The unit provides tertiary services for Major Trauma, Neurosurgery, Vascular, Upper GI and Spinal Cord Injured patients as well as a variety of medical specialties including Nephrology, Haematology and Oncology.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Overview:

Four consultants cover the units during the daytime. A flexible rota design is on offer to compliment the individual requirements of any post-holder. A standard day is 8-6pm with two consultants covering until 9pm.

There is a strong Consultant presence out of hours. The current night time on call frequency is at present 1:14 for full time consultants. Night time on call is resident until 10 pm 7 days per week and non-resident thereafter dependent on clinical requirements.

The Critical Care Consultant team is supported by a strong middle grade tier comprising of highly experienced Staff Grades, Specialty Trainees in ICM, Clinical Fellows, MTI Fellows and Anaesthetic trainees. We have 2 middle grade doctors resident overnight.

The resident rota contains an expanding number of ACCP’s (5 fully qualified with 3 in training), speciality trainees, foundation doctors and trust doctors.

Working for our organisation

We’re thrilled you’re thinking of joining our journey

Getting good NHS services is the most important thing to more than 1.5
million patients, carers and families in the Tees Valley, North Yorkshire
and beyond who depend and rely on them.  It is the most overriding thing
to everyone who works at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
too.

Since the autumn of 2019, we’ve been empowering our clinicians to take the decisions about how we manage our resources and deliver care across our hospitals and services – supported by our amazing scientific teams, administrative, support staff and volunteers. This is important – not just for our local communities in Teesside and North Yorkshire but for patients across the North East and beyond who rely on us as a specialist centre and regional major trauma centre.

By enabling clinicians to come together to shape and deliver the care they want for their patients, we were rated by our colleagues in the 2020 NHS Staff Survey as the most improved Trust in the country.  This clinically-led approach has been at the heart of our response to COVID-19 and the overriding goal set by our experienced clinicians to help keep colleagues, patients and service users safe.