Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- 3 years (Fixed term post)
- Hours
- Part time - 4.5 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 317-SD-24-188
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medicine and Emergency Care Corporate
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £55,825 - £90,000 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Director for Community Services
Specialty Doctor
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
The postholder will support the 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, the Clinical Chair for Medicine & Emergency Care and Clinical Chair of the Family Health Board, the postholder will oversee the governance, quality and development of primary care services embedded within the Urgent Community Response Team, Hospital Avoidance Team and Specialist Care Home Support Team amongst other community frailty and older people’s services.
It is expected that the postholder will provide clinical sessions within the community or older people’s medicine services in keeping with their experience and skillset at a minimum of 2 sessions per week.
This post is fixed term for 3 years initially.
Main duties of the job
Clinical:
· To manage urgent older people’s presentations and ensure that patients are seen and treated by most appropriate healthcare professional
· Manage a clinical caseload of older adult patients supported by Geriatricians as required
· Work closely with the hospital Older People’s Medicine team, community frailty teams and intermediate care
· A degree of flexibility will be required in keeping with the variability and demands of the case mix
Working for our organisation
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity, please contact: Chris Gibbins at [email protected]
Closing Date: 16 September 2024
Interview Date: TBC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management and Leadership:
· Work with senior leaders in Older People’s Medicine and Community Services to transform and manage patient pathways to improve access to timely community care and avoid hospital admission where appropriate
· Specifically working in partnership with the Clinical Director of Older People’s Medicine and Frailty, Heads of Service of the Older People’s medicine, Acute Medicine and local GP providers of Urgent Care
· Work with hospital frailty services to develop new pathways to manage patients from primary care with frailty presentations focusing on how to access timely specialist support for patients and teams
· Work with the Clinical Director and Associate Director of Operations responsible for Urgent Community Response and other acute community services to develop responsive and patient centred pathways
· Oversee governance, safety and development of community frailty services that involve primary care and interface with the hospital trust
· Attend appropriate departmental, Board and trust business meetings including Clinical Policy Group alongside other Clinical Directors
· Provide visible leadership to promote a fair and supportive culture responsive to the needs of the diversity of our patients, visitors and workforce.
· Work with external stakeholders across the ICB, region and national networks to improve Urgent & Emergency Care services more widely
· To promote ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ in the design and planning of services.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- CCT in General Practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a primary care, ICB or acute provider leadership role
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Working as a medical practitioner with experience of urgent presentations in older people
Desirable criteria
- Older People’s Medicine experience
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Board to the Trust and its workforce.
- Experience in clinical service development and innovation
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
- Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues.
- An understanding of Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of management goals.
Teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- Ability to teach clinical skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Cowan
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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