Job Description

The post holder will join an existing team of Intensivists in Scarborough and contribute to daytime and on-call ICU duties. The ICU at Scarborough Hospital currently admits around 400 patients per year and is currently staffed to a dependency of 6 level 3 beds with future growth likely.



A brand new, purpose-built, state of the art Intensive Care Unit will be operational in November 2024. The new Intensive care unit will have 9 individual patient rooms, a roof terrace, and fantastic staff facilities. Prospective candidates are invited to visit the new facility.



The Intensive care unit is staffed from 8am to 6pm every day of the week by a FICM accredited Consultant Intensivist. Overnight cover may be provided either by an Intensivist or an Anaesthetist (Specialist or Consultant) with an interest in ICM. The rota is currently 1:8 but this is looking to expand over time. Daytime ICU cover may also be provided by a York-based ICU consultant. The ICU is also staffed by a robust well-staffed SAS / middle grade / trainee rota during the day and out of hours.



The nursing teams are very well supported by an experienced senior nurse leadership and educator team. The nursing teams have good recruitment and staffing numbers.



The intensive care uses the high performance Metavision Clinical Information System for records which can be accessed and viewed remotely.

Average direct clinical care commitment (DCC) per week:

5.95 PA/week



Currently, the Consultant workforce in Scarborough are all dual-trained in Anaesthesia and deliver an average of 2.4 PAs per week of weekday ICU and the remainder as Anaesthesia sessions. These anaesthesia sessions are delivered flexibly.



Single stream ICM applicants would deliver more ICU weekday sessions. There is flexibility to write a job plan that includes any second dual specialty if required up to an average of approximately 1 day / 2.5PA per week. Working patterns will vary and will obviously depend on if you are single, or dual CCT, and what your second specialty commitment is. Individual job plans will be discussed and finalised with the Lead Clinician and Clinical Director on appointment and will become operational on commencement.



Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants



27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)



A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave



Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme



NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme



An extensive range of learning and development opportunities



Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers



For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

Work base hospital:

Scarborough (requirement to live within 30 mins)

Average weekly programmed activities:

10 PA



Individual job plans will be discussed and finalised with the Lead Clinician and Clinical Director on appointment and will become operational on commencement. All job plans are agreed in line with the Trust's Job Planning Principles. Job plans will be reviewed annually in line with appraisals. The job plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a consultant's typical working pattern, duties and responsibilities. It will cover all aspects of a consultant's professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education, managerial responsibilities, and external commitments.

Core SPA :

1.25 PA/week

This includes the following:

professional development, appraisal, revalidation, administration, teaching, ICU time out governance, and grand round meetings. There will be opportunity to take on further roles which will have additional SPA allocated- all Consultants are encouraged to do so.

On call commitment:

2.8 PA/week



This on call rota is based on a 1:8 rota.



This is 26 weeknights on call from 6pm-8am per year.



This is 20 days plus the night on calls on either a Friday, Saturday or Sunday per year.



The on-call rota is currently defined as a Category A rota.



For on-call duties the post holder will be required to live within 30 minutes of the hospital.



Unpredictable on call is determined and subject to the NHS standard hours monitoring exercise.



On call intensity can obviously vary but the monitoring exercise conducted in 2024 reflects low average overall on call intensity.