Trac proudly powers the recruitment for
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Electronic Disclosure Application System planned update
The Electronic Disclosure Application System will be taken offline for essential maintenance at . While the Electronic Disclosure Application System is offline, it will not be possible to complete and submit a DBS application.
This downtime will only affect those of you who need to submit a DBS application. The Electronic Disclosure Application System will be back online by .
The main Candidate Account Area will not be impacted or taken offline. You will still be able to log in to your candidate account to complete other tasks or apply for jobs.
If you require further information, please email [email protected].
Trust Doctor - Medicine
Accepting applications until: 13-Sep-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 13-Sep-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Address
- Northumbria Way
- Town
- Cramlington
- Postcode
- NE23 6NZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 3 months (Fixed Term - contracts ranging from 3-6 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £45,715 - £69,976 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Trust Doctor)
Specialty
- Main area
- General 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
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
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.
Job overview
This post is available to employees of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and resident doctors employed by the Lead Employer Trust within the North East and North Cumbria.
We are seeking a Trust Doctor to support the delivery of high-quality patient care and to support flow across the Northumbria Hospital site and/or Wansbeck General Hospital. The posts available will be based within the Discharge Unit / Winter Medical Unit caring for adult medical patients and working as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate timely assessment, ongoing management, discharge planning, and patient flow across the organisation.
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting safe and effective discharge processes, reducing length of stay, and maintaining patient flow during periods of increased demand. They will provide medical care for patients with a range of medical conditions, contribute to daily ward rounds, work closely with nursing, therapy and discharge teams, and liaise with specialty services as required to ensure coordinated patient care as well as linking closely with speciality teams on site.
This post offers an excellent opportunity to gain broad experience in managing adult medical inpatients within a dynamic environment focused on improving patient outcomes, supporting operational resilience, and enhancing the patient journey from admission through to discharge.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date.
Advert
- Provide day-to-day medical care for patients admitted to the Units.
- Undertake clinical assessments, formulate management plans, and review patients' progress throughout their admission.
- Lead on daily ward & board rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Support safe, timely, and effective discharge planning in collaboration with nursing, therapy, pharmacy, and discharge teams.
- Liaise with specialty teams and community services to ensure continuity of care and appropriate follow-up arrangements.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive clinical documentation.
- Request and interpret appropriate investigations and implement treatment plans in line with Trust policies and best practice.
- Recognise and respond appropriately to deteriorating patients, escalating concerns to senior medical staff as required.
- Contribute to maintaining patient flow across the organisation by supporting efficient clinical decision-making and discharge processes.
- Work flexibly across the ward environment to support service delivery during periods of increased operational demand and winter pressures.
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, and colleagues to ensure a high standard of patient-centred care.
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
The postholder will provide high-quality medical care to adult inpatients within the Discharge Unit / Winter Medical Unit and will play a key role in supporting patient flow, discharge planning, and operational resilience during periods of increased demand. The role involves working closely with a multidisciplinary team to ensure timely clinical assessment, ongoing review, and safe discharge of patients. The post will contribute to the Trust's Winter Escalation Plan and support the delivery of patient-centred care across the organisation.
Main Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day medical care for patients admitted to the Units.
- Undertake clinical assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of patients with a broad range of medical conditions.
- Review patients regularly, formulate management plans, and ensure timely clinical decision-making.
- Participate in daily ward / board rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Support proactive discharge planning from admission through to discharge.
- Work collaboratively with nursing, therapy, pharmacy, social care, and discharge teams to facilitate safe and timely patient discharge.
- Liaise with specialty teams, community services, and primary care colleagues to ensure continuity of care and appropriate follow-up arrangements.
- Identify and respond appropriately to deteriorating patients, escalating concerns to senior medical staff when required.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and contemporaneous clinical records in line with Trust policies and professional standards.
- Request and interpret appropriate investigations and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
- Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, carers, and colleagues to support informed decision-making and patient-centred care.
- Participate in handovers, case discussions, and other activities that promote safe and effective patient care.
- Contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement projects, and mandatory training requirements.
- Attend relevant educational and development opportunities to support professional growth and maintain clinical competence.
- Work flexibly to support service requirements and operational pressures, particularly during periods of increased demand and winter escalation activity.
Educational and Development Opportunities
The post offers opportunities to develop and enhance:
- Clinical assessment and decision-making skills.
- Communication skills with patients, relatives, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of discharge planning and admission avoidance pathways.
- Understanding of multidisciplinary working and coordinated patient care.
- Knowledge of treatment escalation planning and ethical decision-making.
- Leadership, team-working, handover, and service improvement skills.
- Experience working closely with community, social care, and hospital-based services to support integrated care delivery
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of some aspects of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit or quality improvement projects
- Experience of teaching basic medicine to undergraduates
- Evidence of experience of Clinical Research in Medicine
- Evidence of continuing professional developmen t (CPD) relevant to Acute General Medicine
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration with Licence to Practise – please do not apply if you do not have full GMC registration at the point of application.
- MBBS or equivalent
- Completion of two-year Internal Medical Training (IMT) programme or equivalent
- Paid UK NHS experience working as a doctor
- Advanced life support training from resuscitation council (ALS) or equivalent.
- MRCP part 1 completed
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional developmen t (CPD) relevant to Acute General Medicine
- Evidence of teaching experience
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daniel Patterson
- Job title
- Operational Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0344 811 8111
- Additional information
Simon Ellis
[email protected]
Deputy Business Unit Director & Consultant in Acute Medicine and Infectious Diseases
[email protected] or via hospital switchboard 0344 811 8111
Start your application
Sign in
Create an account
Create your account and apply for your new job!