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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Locum Consultant in Vascular Surgery.

Applications are invited from an enthusiastic and motivated consultant surgeon for a locum consultant post at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an initial 6 month locum post, with the potential for extension and development to a substantive post.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest hospital trust in the Tees Valley with two acute hospitals and services in a number of community hospitals.

The Directorate of Vascular Surgery consists of 7 consultant surgeons, 1 nurse consultant and 4  surgical care practitioners. There are 7 middle grade doctors (4 trust grade doctors and 3 higher surgical trainee from the Northern Deanery), 3 FY1 and a FY2 doctors.

About the area:

The quality of life for professionals and their families in the North East of England is excellent with easy access to attractive countryside and coast including the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks. There are several local highly rated schools and attractive market towns and villages.

Our well established team are expanding and looking forward to showing you why South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a great place to work.

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About the Role:

The appointee will be required to maintain a general vascular surgical remit. This will include the management of elective and emergency patient referrals with arterial and venous disease. The appointee will join a rota with other Consultant colleagues to look after vascular emergencies referred into the service from across the catchment area. The current job plan will entail at least 10 programmed activities (on a 7 week rolling rota). A substantive post is pending. The appointee will be required to have a flexible approach to job plan provision and have an interest in teaching and training.

An interest in research with evidence of published work would be desirable.

An interest in developing the major trauma service would be desirable.

The appointee will need to travel to peripheral hospitals across the network.

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About the Trust:

The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough is a designated major trauma centre and provides all its specialties from one site which is unique for a hospital of its size. It provides a wide range of district general hospital services and specialist services such as cardiothoracics, neurosciences, renal medicine, spinal injuries, major trauma, vascular surgery and cancer services. It has 1,024 beds, a 24-hour acute admissions unit and an emergency department which houses the major trauma centre (adult and children) for Durham, East Cleveland, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire and has its own floodlit helipad. In 2012, The James Cook University Hospital completed a £35 million redevelopment of its cancer services and is now proud to provide some of the best facilities in Europe. The James Cook University Hospital has a modern, central operating suite containing 20 well-equipped theatres and a 16-bedded intensive care unit. 

The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton is an essential part of our organisation and an important point of delivery for the community. It is one of the smallest district general hospitals in the country and has 189 inpatient beds. Despite this, recent developments have included the introduction of lung cancer surgery on site, the opening of an MRI Scanner and the opening of The Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre. The trust has 3 surgical robots which it utilised across various surgical specialities.