Job Details
North Cumbria Integrated Trust is looking to employ an experience Vascular Registrar with ST5+ level experience into the Vascular department.
The successful candidate will join the existing team of vascular surgeons and nurse specialists who provide high quality vascular services across the Northern Lake district in Cumbria and provide an excellent working and living environment. Carlisle is 53 miles from Newcastle and well connected via the West Coast mainline and the M6 to Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Vascular investigations are supported by a vascular ultrasound scientist, CT and MRI services. There is a fully equipped angiography suite and vascular theatre with mobile imaging facilities. There are 3 interventional radiologists based at CIC and there are excellent opportunities for surgically-led IR procedures both in theatre and in the IR suite.
There are regular weekly MDT meetings. The Vascular department has close working ties with the Tertiary unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle including weekly MDTs via video conferencing and twice yearly clinical conferences.
The registrar will have a named educational supervisor, training needs and resources are tailored to the individual personal development plans. Teaching and supervision of the F1 doctors is essential and expected.
In the course of work the jobholder liaises with nursing, professional, technical, social work and administrative staff.
If applicant is on specialist register the job can be permanent
Main duties of the job
The trust registrar doctor will be responsible for the day-to-day care of all patients under the Vascular Consultants. The programme of training for each individual doctor will be flexible depending on his/her particular needs and stage of training.
The Trust Doctor Registrar will provide cover on a Partial Shift Rota, prospective cover of STR colleagues leave. They can usually expect to provide supervision and support for a Foundation Doctor on call.
The Registrar will be expected to play a full and active role in the post-graduate programme including departmental meetings, multidisciplinary meetings and junior teaching.
There will also be opportunities for teaching medical students, overseas clinical attachment doctors and nurses on an occasional basis.
A regular programme of service and educational meetings underpins the service, plus commitment to audit and teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The scale of the hospitals permits excellent and effective working relationships between Hospital Departments and Primary Care.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.
1. Being a clinically led organisation
2. Quality and safety at the heart
3. A positive patient experience every time
4. A great place to work
5. Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role of recruitment officer and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Person Specification
Attainments & Training
Essential
6. MBBS MB ChB or equivalent registrrable qualification
7. Full registration with the General Medical Council
8. Experience in managing vascular surgical patients and assisting in vascular surgery
Desirable
9. MRCS, FRCS or EBVS
10. Experience from a vascular training programme (UK or overseas)
Experience
Essential
11. Prior clinical experience in vascular surgery, minimum of 2 years of vascular experience at ST5+ level.
12. An understanding of evidence based medicine
13. Postgraduate surgical experience
14. Able to demonstrate appropriate logbook experience in Vascular Surgery
15. Interest in research
16. Involvement in Audit project
17. Able to demonstrate Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
18. Experience of Vascular Surgery in the UK.
19. Other relevant certified courses
20. Research qualification
21. Demonstrate improvement in care from Audit
Skills
Essential
22. Ability to organise and prioritise workload and delegate responsibilities
23. Ability to maintain accurate and legible records
24. Demonstrate teaching experience
25. Ability to motivate and support multidisciplinary team
26. Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
27. Ability to communicate and relate well with other members of staff and patients
Desirable
28. Awareness of changes in NHS organisation (purchaser, provider and community care)
29. Experience of teaching medical students