Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Doctor
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6612647HD
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
MHSOP Specialty Doctor
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Doctor
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
The North Tyneside Mental Health Services for Older People is based within North Tyneside General Hospital and provides Psychiatric services for older people within much of North Tyneside. The North Tyneside Memory Clinic is based within a specialist department within North Tyneside General Hospital and offers clinic and home visit appointments. The service receives approximately 800 referrals a year and provides assessment, diagnostic, and post diagnostic support for those with possible dementia. The post holder would be primarily based in the Memory Service, supporting diagnosis and treatment of patients with dementia.
The post holder would work with other members of the MDT within the Memory Service, including nursing staff, OT, Psychology and Nursing assistants and are supported by an excellent admin team. There is Consultant input into the Memory Clinic, and we have a full-time F1 doctor and GP Registrar (split post Memory Clinic and Community Team). The team has a close working relationship and values all members of the MDT. The exact job plan will be agreed with the successful appointee.
Main duties of the job
Support provision of Memory Clinic services, including input into MDT
Provide Memory Clinic diagnostic clinics
Provide input into reviewing investigations within Memory Clinic
Provide recommendations for treatments for cognitive impairment and associated mental health issues
Support the training and support of junior medical staff, nurses, and other multidisciplinary team members within the Trust’s Older People’s Services
The post will be supported by Consultant input
Although primarily based within the Memory Service, there may be occasions when input into other parts of the Mental Health Services for Older People is required, dependent on service need
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for more details relating to the job role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- Approximately four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty such as Psychiatric training or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty
- Experience & understanding of Quality Improvement & Audit Management
- The appointee will be required to maintain full GMC registration and revalidation and should follow the GMC Code of Good Medical Practice.
Desirable criteria
- MRCPsych or equivalent – or working towards this
- Section 12 approval
- At least two years’ experience in relevant Psychiatric services
- Experience of taking a leadership role within the MDT
- Demonstrate completion of Quality Improvement project or completion of audit cycle
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- Experience of supervising junior doctors and Nurse Practitioners
- Formal training in Clinical Supervision
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
- Christopher Davison
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07799887451
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