About this role
Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialty Doctor in geriatric medicine on a full time basis for a fixed term of 12 months. The post will work into our Parkinsons services providing clinics as well as supporting our Elderly Assessment Units.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.
Main duties of the job
Support provision of trust's geriatrics medicine service, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, with a specific aim to expand capacity within our Parkinsons and elderly assessment Units
Be committed to the training and support of junior medical staff, nurses, and other multidisciplinary team members within the Trust's older people's 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 upon 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
The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops. The postholder will be required to work flexibly across trust sites.
The Job Plan will typically include an average of 10 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Full GMC Registration MBBS or equivalent
Desirable
MRCP (UK) PACES
Experience and Knowledge Essential
Approximately four years' full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty such as General/Core Medical training or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty Clinical Governance
Desirable
At least two years' experience of Care of Elderly ALS Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates Teaching of non-medical health professionals. Formal Training in clinical supervision Experience of supervising junior doctors & nurse practitioners
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.
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Employer details Employer name Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Northumbria Way
Cramlington
NE23 6NZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)