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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.
Contact
- Address
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Human Resources Department
- Northumbria House
- 7/8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Business Park
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE27 0QJ
- Contact Number
- 0191 2031415 Option 2
Acute Medicine and Palliative Medicine Trust Doctor
Accepting applications until: 08-May-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 08-May-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- The Northumbria Specialist Care Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Northumbria Way
- Tref
- Cramlington
- Cod post
- NE23 6NZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Oriau
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £37,068 - £57,570 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Trust Doctor)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Palliative Medicine and Acute 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.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
This role will be split 50/50 between Acute Medicine and Palliative Medicine, to provide a unique opportunity for those wishing to pursue a career in either specialty. Training needs will be discussed with an educational supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below.
If the successful appointee has over four years post qualification experience, they will be appointed on specialty doctor 2021 terms and conditions
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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Trust Doctor in Acute Medicine
Acute medicine at NSECH encompasses x2 Acute Medicine admission wards that work in parallel to the other specialty admission wards (e.g. respiratory, cardiology etc), plus a large Medical Ambulatory Care / SDEC unit.
The type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
Working on a busy acute medicine unit and medical ambulatory care (MAC) unit
Trust Doctor in Palliative Medicine
Northumbria Healthcare manages three district general hospitals, plus a specialist emergency care hospital (NSECH or The Northumbria), which all have liaison specialist palliative care teams, including Consultants and clinical nurse specialists who help manage patients with palliative care needs who are admitted to hospital.
The type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
You will primarily be working in the hospital liaison team or Palliative Care Unit alongside the multi-disciplinary team (clinical nurse specialists, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, chaplain and social worker) and under supervision of a palliative medicine consultant.
Your role will be to support the liaison team in the assessment and ongoing management of patients referred by other medical providers (wards or primary care teams). This includes a holistic assessment and frequently will entail joint visits with other members of the MDT (e.g. clinical nurse specialists).
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Acute Medicine: the type of work and learning opportunities to expect:
- Working on busy acute medicine units and our medical ambulatory care (MAC) unit.
- You will support our new telemedicine clinic on MAC.
Educational opportunities in Acute Medicine:
- Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history
- Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance
- Gain confidence in communication skills with both 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.
- Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team
- Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training resident doctors in these where appropriate.
- Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills
Palliative Medicine: the type of work and learning opportunities to expect:
- You will primarily be working in the hospital liaison team or Palliative Care Unit alongside the multi-disciplinary team (clinical nurse specialists, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, chaplain and social worker) and under supervision of a palliative medicine consultant.
- Your role will be to support the liaison team in the assessment and ongoing management of patients referred by other medical providers (wards or primary care teams). This includes a holistic assessment and frequently will entail joint visits with other members of the MDT (eg clinical nurse specialists).
- Communication with other professionals is critical in this role, and you will develop skills and knowledge regarding all aspects of a patient’s care pathway – from diagnosis to the provision of end of life care.
- In addition, teaching skills (both informal and formal) to all healthcare providers will be an integral part of the role.
- There will be a range of diagnoses (both cancer and non-cancer) and patients of a range of ages
Educational opportunities in Palliative Medicine:
- Develop skills in taking a palliative medicine history and understand how this may be slightly different to other histories, and may differ according to setting (community vs hospital).
- Gain in confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families
- Understand team-working, and the roles of all members of the team
- Learn to work within a multidisciplinary team to provide palliative care for patients
- Develop an understanding of ethical and legal issues as they apply to Palliative Medicine
- Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills in palliative care
- There will be regular teaching from the consultants as well as opportunities to attend regional palliative care physician education meetings.
- The post holder will also have the opportunity to attend general medical education within the hospital
Working pattern
To be confirmed once appointed, but may include some evening working, and some weekend working. You will not be on the medical registrar rota or expected to do night-shifts.
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!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- MBBS or equivalent
- Full MRCP examination at time of application (including PACES)
- full GMC registration at time of application
- Completion of two-year Core Medical (CMT) or Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) training programme or equivalence Foundation Programme or equivalent
Meini prawf dymunol
- valid Advanced Life Support certificate (or ACLS equivalent)
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Paid experience of working as a doctor in UK NHS
Meini prawf dymunol
- Evidence of CPD in Acute Medicine
- Evidence of CPD in Palliative Medicine
- Experience working in Palliative Medicine as a doctor
- Experience working in Acute Medicine as a doctor
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Dr Katie Frew
- Teitl y swydd
- Consultant in Palliative Medicine
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01670 529304
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Dr A. Chick, Consultant in Acute Medicine, 0191 607 2671
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