Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Critical care medicine with an interest in Medical Undergraduate Medical Education.
Northumbria's critical care has 15 mixed Level 2 and 3 beds and is based at the heart of the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) which is based in Cramlington, Northumberland. The trust also provides critical care responsibilities for the other acute hospitals within the trust; Wansbeck General Hospital, North Tyneside General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital. The post would include the delivery of Critical Care consultant responsibility at (NSECH), based on a 1 in 13 on-call rota, and involvement in the organisation and delivery of education to undergraduate medical students based in the Trust
Main duties of the job
NSECH opened in 2015 and is a state of the art, purpose built, emergency care hospital. The successful candidate will be working in the busy critical care department and will be responsible for a mixture critically ill adult medical and surgical patients. We are a training unit for medical, critical care, anaesthetic trainees as well as Advanced Critical care practitioners and the successful candidate will be expected to play an active role in these training programs. We are a regional adult trauma unit and provide immediate critical care support, stabilisation and transfer for critically ill paediatric patients.
About us
Our trust is innovative and progressive, with an £180 million turnover, employing 12,000 staff to serve a population of 500,000 with an extensive range of acute and community health care. It was recognised as "Outstanding" at the CQC inspection in 2016 and again in 2019. Most of the population lives in the more urban South East corner of the largely rural area which stretches from the River Tyne to the River Tweed, a distance of 65 miles, and from the coast to the North Northumberland Coast and the Northumberland National Park offering some of the most dramatic and beautiful scenery in England.
The Trust opened its new Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (The Northumbria) as the first of its kind in England in June 2015. The Trust also manages three major elective care hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed. Benefiting from substantial capital investment recently and with a further
£50 million of hospital schemes under construction, the Trust's c.1,000 beds are all in new, attractive low-rise and purpose-built facilities on spacious sites. A further
c.300 beds are provided in seven community hospitals.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, a University Trust, has achieved a great deal since its creation in 1998. Many of its advances have come through a positive approach to partnership initiatives and a dynamic development of primary care provision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Critical Care Service sits with the Emergency Medicine Directorate. We have an established body of 12 consultant intensivists, currently providing a 1 in 12 on-call rota. Our current consultant cohort include 11 anaesthetic intensivists and 1 medical consultant intensivists (Respiratory). This post would be an additional consultant with a planned 1 in 13 on-call.
Quality and Safety are at the heart of what we aspire to do and as a result we rota two consultant intensivists to provide daytime critical care provision with at least two critical care residents. One intensivist then remains resident in the hospital each night until 9pm followed by on-call from home.
We also have 6 Advanced Critical care practitioners (with 3 additional in training) with competencies in line insertion, and advanced airway skills who provide a 24/7 cover rota ensuring continuity and experience is always available on the unit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Critical Care Service sits with the Emergency Medicine Directorate. We have an established body of 12 consultant intensivists, currently providing a 1 in 12 on-call rota. Our current consultant cohort include 11 anaesthetic intensivists and 1 medical consultant intensivists (Respiratory). This post would be an additional consultant with a planned 1 in 13 on-call.
Quality and Safety are at the heart of what we aspire to do and as a result we rota two consultant intensivists to provide daytime critical care provision with at least two critical care residents. One intensivist then remains resident in the hospital each night until 9pm followed by on-call from home.
We also have 6 Advanced Critical care practitioners (with 3 additional in training) with competencies in line insertion, and advanced airway skills who provide a 24/7 cover rota ensuring continuity and experience is always available on the unit.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Certificate for completion of training in Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent
- GMC registration
- Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application.
Desirable
- Point of Care Ultrasound qualification or experience
- Teaching certificate or equivalent experience
- Resuscitation in life support/Trauma/Paediatrics
- Participation in research and /or publications in peer reviewed journals
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Certificate for completion of training in Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent
- GMC registration
- Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application.
Desirable
- Point of Care Ultrasound qualification or experience
- Teaching certificate or equivalent experience
- Resuscitation in life support/Trauma/Paediatrics
- Participation in research and /or publications in peer reviewed journals
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
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).
