Specialist Doctor | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialist Doctor on a full-time basis based at North Tyneside General Hospital and supporting the delivery of our trust wide service.

The Mental Health Services for Older People is busy, friendly and dynamic. It benefits from close working relations with physician colleagues, particularly in Care of the Elderly Medicine. The service is based in modern accommodation on the North Tyneside General Hospital site.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.

The post will primarily provide its time into our Memory Clinic and Young Onset Dementia Service with time supporting the MHSOP Community Mental Health Teams including managing long term conditions alongside a specialist MHSOP pharmacist.

The post involves providing clinical supervision of a foundation trainee working into the Memory Clinic, as well as future opportunities to be involved with undergraduate and postgraduate education, depending on the applicant's interest.

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.

Jointly responsible for the provision of older peoples' Mental Health Services to the elderly populationofNorthTyneside,numberingapproximately30,000.Thepostholderwillworkwith managers and professional colleagues in ensuring maximum efficiency of the service.

Managepersonalworkloadinsuchawaytoensure,wherepossible,servicecontractlevelsare achieved.Participateintheprovisionofcoverona sharedbasiswith colleaguesfor periodsof annual and study leave.

Provide continuing clinical responsibility for patients under his/her care and assume responsibility for and facilitate contact from members of staff with delegated duties for personally accountable patient care.