About this role
Job summary To provide high-quality inpatient, outpatient, and emergency vascular care, supporting resident medical staff and contributing to service delivery, education, and improvement in alignment with GMC and Trust standards.
Main duties of the job
Develop excellent clinical care that is patient centric and evidence-based.
Contribute to team working that enables a learning working environment as well as excellent clinical outcome.
Support triaging of outpatient referrals.
Assist with managing test results and communicating with patients.
Handle clinical queries from primary care and referring teams.
Provide safe, evidence-based care to vascular surgery patients.
Participate in ward rounds, outpatient clinics, MDTs, and the on-call rota.
Ensure high standards of documentation and safe clinical handover.
Identify clinical situations that require senior input and escalate appropriately.
Contribute to seamless perioperative care in collaboration with the wider MDT.
Provide supervision, teaching, and mentorship to FY1-CT2 doctors and medical students.
Contribute to local training, simulation sessions, and departmental educational programmes.
Contribute to and participate in audit and quality control.
Contribute to and participate in research.
To identify national strategies and policies that impact on vascular service provision and initiate and implement practice and service development improvement accordingly.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training Essential
oCurrent GMC registration with a licence to practice oMedical Qualification oMRCS examination or appropriate equivalent oEvidence of completion of Foundation or equivalent training
Desirable
oTeaching qualification e.g PG cert in Medical Education oLeadership Training
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Essential
Broad and applied understanding of relevant specialty knowledge
Experience Essential
2 years of experience in a surgical post at the equivalent of Core surgery or Specialty Training (ST3) or middle grade experience and competencies A log book demonstrating appropriate level of operative experience Experience of Audit Completion
Desirable
Experience of involvement with teaching/training Research experience including presentation and publications
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)