Trust Doctor

To provide, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, a comprehensive Sexual Health service across Northumberland and North Tyneside localities., To deliver Genitourinary Medicine, HIV outpatient and Contraception services in keeping with competencies and experience.

To work with professional colleagues and local managers to ensure the efficient running of the Sexual Health Service.

To share, with other practitioners, the medical contribution to Service management and leadership.

To participate in the management of change to ensure a responsive and flexible service and to enable all staff to adapt and contribute fully.

To provide advice to GPs and other medical and non-medical staff, internally and externally.

To support specialist nurses in the delivery of the nurse-led, service model.

To prescribe and issue prescription-only medicines and support nursing staff with the use and development of Patient Group Directions.

To contribute to appropriate health promotion and education within the clinic.

To ensure good clinical governance and participate in local audit and quality improvement activity.

To contribute to teaching and education in order to improve access to sexual health services.

To actively participation in annual appraisal and CPD activities and complete personal CPD programme in accordance with Royal College guidance.

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