Job summary
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
This vacancy may close once sufficient applications have been received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
This vacancy may close once sufficient applications have been received.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice in the UK
- Minimum three years of experience working within the National Health Service in the UK.
Desirable
- Qualifications in other specialist skills
- FRCA
- Membership of other professional organisations
Clinical Experience and Effectiveness
Essential
- Wide range of adult general, neuro-surgical and major trauma critical care experience
- Evidence of clinical audit
- Understanding of clinical governance and a readiness to accept and acknowledge the responsibilities it implies
Desirable
- Provision of on-call services at a senior level
- Area of special expertise
Management and administrative experience
Essential
- Ability to work productively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Management training
- Evidence of utilisation of management skills as applied to projects.
- Experience in research
Teaching and training experience
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Evidence of active teaching involvement
Desirable
- Other teaching skills/experience
- Life support course faculty e.g. ALS, ATLS, ETC
- Educational Supervisor Training
Personal attributes
Essential
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of critical care patients, including management of deteriorating patients
- Ability to support, organise, prioritise, delegate, and manage the clinical team to deliver care effectively
- Ability to communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary team colleagues, patients, relatives, GP's, and any other agencies required on behalf of the patient
- Resident within 10 miles or 30 minutes of the hospital for on-call from home duties
- Flexibility to respond to changing service
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice in the UK
- Minimum three years of experience working within the National Health Service in the UK.
Desirable
- Qualifications in other specialist skills
- FRCA
- Membership of other professional organisations
Clinical Experience and Effectiveness
Essential
- Wide range of adult general, neuro-surgical and major trauma critical care experience
- Evidence of clinical audit
- Understanding of clinical governance and a readiness to accept and acknowledge the responsibilities it implies
Desirable
- Provision of on-call services at a senior level
- Area of special expertise
Management and administrative experience
Essential
- Ability to work productively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Management training
- Evidence of utilisation of management skills as applied to projects.
- Experience in research
Teaching and training experience
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Evidence of active teaching involvement
Desirable
- Other teaching skills/experience
- Life support course faculty e.g. ALS, ATLS, ETC
- Educational Supervisor Training
Personal attributes
Essential
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of critical care patients, including management of deteriorating patients
- Ability to support, organise, prioritise, delegate, and manage the clinical team to deliver care effectively
- Ability to communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary team colleagues, patients, relatives, GP's, and any other agencies required on behalf of the patient
- Resident within 10 miles or 30 minutes of the hospital for on-call from home duties
- Flexibility to respond to changing service
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
