Senior Trust Grade Stroke, UHND in North East

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Senior Trust Grade Stroke, UHND

The closing date is 20 October 2026

We are looking for applicants with experience in acuteand/or general internal medicine and acute stroke, who also have excellentteam-working skills with the abilities and professional skills to work well ina multi-professional team. The post would ideally suit a post CMT level doctorwho wishes to gain further experience and skills before considering their nextcareer move, or a registrar grade clinician keen to enhance their skills withinthe management of the acutely unwell adult patient, in particular with an acutestroke. Durham provide a hyper-acute stroke unit for CDDFT, supporting 24/7emergency stroke care, including administration of thrombolysis whereappropriate, TIA clinics and rehabilitation.

Post holder will have a supervisor and encouraged toenrol onto a generic E-Portfolio.

Based at University Hospital North Durham, thepost-holder will be a key senior member of the medicine team with a clear rolein ensuring comprehensive ongoing care for their inpatients. They will beworking primarily with in the Medicine care Group under the supervisions ofMedical Consultants based in a speciality but with flexibility to move withinthe remit of general medicine.

Main duties of the job

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will be committedto delivering clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locallywith the clinical teams and commissioner

• 1. Liaise between nurses, junior doctors, patients,relatives and senior medical staff.
• 2. Attend and participate in ward rounds as timetabled
• 3. Attend outpatient clinics.
• 4. Study for higher examination and maintain continuedprofessional development.
• 5. Attend weekly educational and multidisciplinary sessions.
• 6. Undertake audit at various times throughout therotations.
• 7. To supervise and manage junior medical staff.
• 8. To assist in the teaching and training programmes forJunior Staff and Postgraduate Medical Education.
• 9. To support the development of clinical governance, usingaudit findings to improve the quality of treatment and to minimise clinicalrisk.
• 10. To develop innovative working practices, andto support the growing clinical contribution of non-medical staff.

About us

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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Please note that we may close any vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Job responsibilities

On the 1 April 2011, County Durham and Darlington NHSFoundation Trust came together with Community Services to form a new integratedhealth care organisation delivering integrated acute and community healthservices to patients committed to providing quality care along the wholepathway; at home, in the community and in hospital.

We provide services from three main hospital sites, sixcommunity hospitals, and around 80 locations across the area plus the caredelivered at home.

Our range of services includes hospital based emergency andplanned care, including surgery, medical treatment for serious andlife-threatening conditions, paediatrics and women services, community basedservices for long term conditions like diabetes or respiratory illness; andhealth and well-being services to improve health and prevent illness, such assmoking cessation and alcohol reduction. So now, whatever the health care needsof our community, and wherever they need them in County Durham, our commitmentis to provide these to the best standard and quality.

We provide acute services, for the most seriously ill orinjured patients through our Accident & Emergency departments at DarlingtonMemorial and University Hospital of North Durham. Planned patient care,rehabilitation and recovery, and an urgent care centre are provided at BishopAuckland Hospital. Outpatient and diagnostic facilities are provided at allthese sites.

We aim to treat patients as close to home as possible soprovideoutpatient and community facilities, including inpatients and day careat six community hospitals.

The Trust in its aim to continue to drive the quality ofservice provided to the community is to develop greater interdependence betweenour hospitals by creating centres of excellence in a range of specialties oneach site, and greater integration between hospital and community services.

Recent developments in this area includes the approval tocentralise hyper-acute stroke services on a single site, at University Hospitalof North Durham allowing us to improve emergency stroke care during the first72 hours and the development of a specialist bariatric service at Darlington.

University Hospital of North Durham has 366 beds andprovides a wide range of acute specialties including Accident & Emergency,Anaesthetics and ITU, General Medicine, General and Vascular Surgery, Urology(Day case only), Orthopaedics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics,Plastic Surgery, Rheumatology, Dermatology and Genito-Urinary Medicine.Additional out-patient facilities exist for ENT, Nephrology, Neurology,Radiotherapy/Oncology, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery and Plastic Surgery. Clinicalsupport departments of Imaging (including PACS digital radiology, CT, MRI andultrasound), Coronary Angiography, Medical Physics, Pathology, Pharmacy andAllied Health Professions are all on site.

Durham provide ahyper-acute stroke unit, supporting 24/7 emergency stroke care, includingadministration of thrombolysis where appropriate, on a sustainable basis.

The Hospital was built under the Private Finance Initiativeand opened in 2001, replacing the former Dryburn Hospital that has beendemolished. It serves a population of c250, 000. For Plastic Surgery andDermatology the population served is c750, 000, covering Sunderland and SouthTyneside as well.

The Department of Medicine is part of the acute andlong-term conditions care group and provides all major medical specialties.There are 220 beds in the University Hospital for medical specialities, with afurther 68 rehabilitation beds in satellite hospitals. There is a full range ofdiagnostic support with access to CT, MRI and Ultrasound including carotidimaging.

There is a 40 bed acute medical unit receivingover 40 admissions/24 hours plus a co-located ambulatory care service. The AMUis supported by acute care physicians. There is a dedicated 24 bedded hyperacute stroke unit with support from Stroke consultants with direct admissions24/7 for all acute stroke admissions.

Person Specification

Special Skills & Knowledge

• Clinical competences equivalent to CT2

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCP or previous experience in the UK
• MRCP part 1

Experience

• Previous general medicine experience in UK

Satutory Registration

• GMC Registration

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

University Hospital of North Durham, North Road

£67,325 to £67,998 a yearMT04 Paygrade per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9439-2627-RP-N378

Job locations

University Hospital of North Durham, North Road

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