Clinical Director for Community Services

We are looking for a qualified General Practitioner to join us as a Clinical Director in Community and Older People's Medicine Services to work with us to transform services that offer planned care to elderly community patients with a focus of maintaining health and wellbeing and also to develop services that respond to acute deteriorations in health and/or function in the community. We anticipate this work to also heavily involve development of a neighbourhood health model with local stakeholders.

The postholder would also be expected to provide clinical sessions depending on background and experience either in supporting community frailty services, intermediate care or the older people's day unit., The postholder will support the continued transformation of planned and unplanned older people's community services within the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust and wider city of Newcastle. Working in partnership with the Clinical Director of Older People's Medicine and the Clinical Chair for the board of Medicine, Emergency Care and Community the postholder will be expected to oversee the governance, quality and development of community services such as the Urgent Community Response Team, Same Day Response Team, Community Response and rehabilitation Team, and Specialist Care Home Support Team. They will also be expected to support with the strategic development of these services, and support the development of neighbourhood working.