Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia - Cramlington, United Kingdom - Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Cramlington, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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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 intensivist (1 x Respiratory).


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 7 Advanced Critical care practitioners (with 2 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.

Proposed Job Plan

The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service.

A proposed job plan will be agreed with the successful applicant on commencement of employment.

Service Provision and Development

Jointly responsible for the provision of Critical care services to the population of Northumberland.

The post holder will be encouraged to develop a special interest to complement the other members of the department and will work with managers and professional colleagues in ensuring maximum efficiency of the service.

Manage personal workload in such a way to ensure where possible service contract levels are achieved.

Participate in the provision of cover on a shared basis with colleagues for periods of annual, sickness and study leave, except for prolonged absences where locum cover may be necessary.


Provide continuing clinical responsibility for patients under his/her care and assume responsibility for and facilitate contact from members of staff with delegated duties for personally accountable patient care.


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.

Please see the attached job description for further information about the role and key responsibilities.
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