About this role
Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialist Doctor in Emergency Medicine to work at our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital at Cramlington. This is the first purpose-built hospital of its kind in the country, providing 24/7 EM Consultant presence, as well as Specialty Consultant presence 12 hours each day, 7 days a week.
We are one of the country's top performing NHS Foundation Trusts, looking after the wellbeing of around half a million people across Northumberland and North Tyneside - one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in England. Recent CQC inspection rated Northumbria Health Care Trust as outstanding overall.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work in our Emergency Department. They would work evening shifts, weekends and night shifts. They would work alongside the whole Emergency Department Consultant team.
All emergency care is performed at our emergency hospital, NSECH, which opened in 2015. We also have a dedicated Ambulatory Care Unit which opened in June 2019 to help decompress our emergency department and improve the quality of care for ambulatory patients which we recognize as being an increasing need. Access to diagnostic imaging is excellent at NSECH and is key to our ability to manage the emergency workload efficiently. Part of the role of the successful candidate will be to help coordinate and improve the delivery of the emergency services.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description Job responsibilities
Leading a busy Emergency Department overseeing the work of nurse practitioners, physician associates, junior doctors and registrars.
Assessment of broad range of emergency medicine presentations Understand how emergency care can contribute to safe admission avoidance.
Have excellent communication skills with colleagues, patients and their families.
Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team.
Understand the role of investigations, and how urgently these investigations are needed.
Lead a multidisciplinary team.
Perform and train doctors to perform procedures.
Provide educational supervision to trainees.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Shall have full registration and a License to Practice with the General Medical Council
Desirable
Shall have completed a minimum of 10 years' medical work (either continuous or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of 5 years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years' experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Cramlington Way
Cramlington
NE23 6NZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)