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Job overview

This opportunity is to join a dynamic, friendly and supportive team of 23 critical care consultants and 4 SAS doctors in a busy 33 bedded, tertiary referral, major trauma centre hospital located at the top of the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors.

Serving a population of 1.5million across the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire, The James Cook University Hospital provides all its specialties from one site which is unique for a hospital of its size.

The post will be based primarily at 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.

General Critical Care 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. The trust provides specialist emergency and elective Interventional Radiology Services which allow the trust to offer regional  stroke thrombectomy, neurosurgical endovascular procedures and conventional IR procedures including EVAR.

Main duties of the job

A formal job plan will be discussed on appointment.  It will cover all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities, including a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external.  It should include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.  Joint job plans with other specialities will be provided depending on availability of sessions.

Working for our organisation

Since the autumn of 2019, we have 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.

We are an anchor tertiary provider – delivering world-class cancer, cardiothoracic, spinal, cochlear implant, neurosciences, gynaecology and urology care for patients across the region – and one of only three hospital trusts in the UK operating three robotic surgical systems.  Our major trauma centre sees half of all trauma cases in the North East and Cumbria.  Our role as an anchor tertiary provider is also crucial in ensuring that specialist care is available to patients across our region and that health inequalities are not exacerbated in our local patient populations.