Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

Integrated Care System; Scarborough; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Scarborough is seeking a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine. The position offers the opportunity to work in a newly built ICU, providing a supportive environment with robust staffing and a commitment to professional development. Ideal candidates will possess a medical degree and be registered on the Specialist Register for Intensive Care Medicine.

Benefits

Access to NHS Pension Scheme

27 days holiday, rising to 33 days

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Discounts on various services

Qualifications

• Evidence of independent work at consultant level.
• Experience managing critically unwell children.
• Engagement in clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Join a team of Intensivists for ICU duties.
• Deliver weekday ICU sessions and flexible Anaesthesia.
• Discuss individual job plans with Lead Clinician.

Skills

Advanced Resuscitation Skills

Clinical Prioritisation Decision Making

Communication Skills

Leadership

Teaching

Education

Primary Medical Degree

GMC Registration

Entry on Specialist Register for Intensive Care Medicine

Job description

Go back York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

The closing date is 28 July 2025

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 opened in May 2025. The new Intensive care unit has 10 individual patient rooms, a roof terrace, and fantastic staff facilities.

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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 Trusts 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 consultants typical working pattern, duties and responsibilities. It will cover all aspects of a consultants 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Primary Medical Degree
• GMC Registration and License to practise without restriction
• Entry on Specialist Register for Intensive Care Medicine OR Within 6 months of completion of UK ICM training programme with expected entry onto the Specialist Register for Intensive Care Medicine

Clinical Competence

• Evidence can work independently at consultant level
• Evidence of experience and competence at managing critically unwell children
• Evidence of competence in line with Stage 3 FICM curriculum
• Evidence and examples to show can work under pressure
• Evidence of advanced resuscitation skills
• Evidence and examples can manage complex clinical prioritisation decision making

Leadership and Teamwork

• Evidence of leadership experience and skills
• Evidence of engagement in clinical governance
• Evidence can work in multi-disciplinary team

Quality Improvement and Research

• Evidence of quality improvement work and service improvement
• Ability to critically review research

Teaching

• Evidence of experience of teaching undergraduate and post graduate trainees with formal positive feedback

Communication

• Evidence and examples to demonstrate high level communication skills
• Demonstrates compassion and emotional intelligence

Other

• Willing to reside within a distance of 30 minutes or 10 miles by road from Scarborough Hospital

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.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a yearper annum / pro rata