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Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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’.

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• 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.