Consultant in Critical Care Medicine
North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Stockton-on-Tees
Salary
£109,725 – £145,478
Posted
4 days ago
About the role
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic consultant in Intensive Care Medicine to join the growing team here at University Hospitals Tees. This is a substantive post joining an existing team of consultants who lead patient care in the critical care unit at The University Hospital of North Tees. The unit is funded for x10 level 3 and x6 level 2 beds with physical capacity for 17 patients. This unit supports an acute general medical unit, emergency surgery, trauma unit service and elective surgery including colorectal, spinal, urology and an obstetric unit. The critical care unit admits approximately 400 Level 3 and 600 Level 2 admissions annually. Resident cover is provided by staff and associate specialist doctors and resident doctors with appropriate competencies. The unit also has five established ACCPs. The unit is a member of the North of England Critical Care Network and a yearly multi-disciplinary conference is held to celebrate the year's achievements. The unit subscribes to the ICNARC Case Mix programme and has a well-established electronic patient record system ("Trakcare"). Job plans are negotiable dependent on sub-specialty interests and there areopportunities to deliver clinical sessions across other UHT hospitals - James Cook University Hospital, Friarage Surgical Hub and Hartlepool Surgical Hub. There are opportunities for daytime critical care sessions at James Cook University Hospital which is a major trauma centre with tertiary medical and surgical services.