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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Consultant
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- Tyne and Wear
- Postcode
- NE298NH
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Geriatric Medicine
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
To provide, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, the Trust’s Geriatric Medicine service. Our Geriatric Medicine team is one of the largest in the Trust and provides inpatient and outpatient care across all our hospitals with consultant-led beds at The Northumbria, Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Wansbeck General Hospitals and our Community Hospitals.
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We are committed to developing patient pathways beyond the traditional secondary care inpatient/outpatient model to better meet the needs of frail patients in our communities. This is aligned with the trust strategy to ensuing we provide the best care for our local people, in the right place, whatever the stage of a person’s life.
Our Acute service is based at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency care Hospital (NSECH), with 19 inpatient beds on our dedicated Admissions Ward for patients presenting to ED either directly or via their GP, and a peripatetic Frailty Assessment Service (FAS), which is consultant-led with Nurse Practitioner and therapist support, providing assessment of frail patients in ED itself, with the aim of initiating CGA early in the patient journey and facilitating early direct move to the most appropriate place for ongoing care; whether that be their home or one of our inpatient facilities.
More recently we have opened an Elderly Assessment Unit (EAU) in Wansbeck Hospital with aims to provide same or next day assessment to frail patients in response to acute deterioration.
Working for our organisation
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This aligns with the trust strategy to develop credible alternatives to emergency department attendance and receives referrals directly from the ambulance service as well as GPs. Our Frailty Virtual Ward is well established with plans to develop further. EAU, virtual frailty ward and the frailty assessment service in ED links with other community initiatives such as 2-hour urgent response. Our ambition is to open another EAU at North Tyneside Hospital in the future to help further build the vision of responsive frailty services close to patients. In Hexham we also run a 5/7 Elderly Assessment Service (EAC) which sees new (and some review) patients direct via GP referral for patients in the West of the region.
We have subacute wards at Hexham, Wansbeck, and North Tyneside General Hospitals, providing ongoing care for those felt to still need significant medical input, therapy and discharge planning following initial assessment at NSECH. In addition, our Community Hospital wards provide locally based inpatient rehabilitation and palliative care for those requiring a longer inpatient stay.
We have geriatrician input into intermediate care facilities in the North Tyneside areas at North Tyneside Intermediate Care unit and Princes Court with shared care with local GPs and Community re-ablement and rehabilitation teams.
Our inpatient liaison services provide orthogeriatric input to the Acute Trauma Ward at NSECH. We have an established general surgical liaison service for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy, with plans to further develop a proactive high risk outpatient service. We also hope to develop more generic surgical and medical liaison service to other wards in the Trust.
In terms of Outpatients, we run award winning Falls and PD services across the Trust, general outpatients and are Multidisciplinary Assessment Clinics (MDACs) to provide CGA to frail patients.
We are active within planned community services and have geriatricians working within community teams such as the proactive service in North Tyneside, Nursing Home MDT working in Northumberland, and run a number of Community MDTs.
We host junior doctors of all grades across our service and are funded for training 4 Geriatrics Specialty Trainees. In addition to the opportunity to provide medical clinical and educational supervision and training; there is also the opportunity to be involved in training and supervising other staff groups within the department such as our Nurse practitioners and pharmacists.
We are keen for colleagues to develop variety in their job plans, to reflect personal interest and skills. Rotation through many of the areas above is encouraged with four-monthly rotations through the acute service at NSECH built into job plans. The further development of a clinical, educational or research special interest is encouraged.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP
- Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview
- Full accreditation with the appropriate Royal College
- Full GMC Registration.
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT).
- High standard of clinical skill and expertise in specialty
- Clinical Governance
- Expertise in sub specialty.
Management and Administrative
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit management
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching of nonmedical health professionals
- Educational Qualification
Research, Audit and Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
- Experience of and commitment to medical audit.
Desirable criteria
- Publications in referred journals
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenny Yeo
- Job title
- Head of Service/Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816171506
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