Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialty Doctor in geriatric medicine on a full time basis for a fixed term of 12 months. The post will work into our Parkinsons services providing clinics as well as supporting our Elderly Assessment Units.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.
Support provision of trust’s geriatrics medicine service, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, with a specific aim to expand capacity within our Parkinsons and elderly assessment Units
Be committed to the training and support of junior medical staff, nurses, and other multidisciplinary team members within the Trust’s older people’s 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 upon 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.
The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops. The postholder will be required to work flexibly across trust sites.
The Job Plan will typically include an average of 10 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties.
