Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialist Doctor in Emergency Medicine to work at our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital at Cramlington. This is the first purpose-built hospital of its kind in the country, providing 24/7 EM Consultant presence, as well as Specialty Consultant presence 12 hours each day, 7 days a week.
We are one of the country’s top performing NHS Foundation Trusts, looking after the wellbeing of around half a million people across Northumberland and North Tyneside – one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in England. Recent CQC inspection rated Northumbria Health Care Trust as outstanding overall.
The successful candidate will work in our Emergency Department. They would work evening shifts, weekends and night shifts. They would work alongside the whole Emergency Department Consultant team.
All emergency care is performed at our emergency hospital, NSECH, which opened in 2015. We also have a dedicated Ambulatory Care Unit which opened in June 2019 to help decompress our emergency department and improve the quality of care for ambulatory patients which we recognize as being an increasing need. Access to diagnostic imaging is excellent at NSECH and is key to our ability to manage the emergency workload efficiently. Part of the role of the successful candidate will be to help coordinate and improve the delivery of the emergency services.
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.
Leading a busy Emergency Department overseeing the work of nurse practitioners, physician associates, junior doctors and registrars.
Assessment of broad range of emergency medicine presentations Understand how emergency care can contribute to safe admission avoidance.
Have excellent communication skills with colleagues, 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.
Lead a multidisciplinary team.
Perform and train doctors to perform procedures.
Provide educational supervision to trainees.
