Consultant in Acute Medicine

Site: The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

Town: Cramlington

Salary: £105,504 – £139,882 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: Today at 23:59

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.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHCT) is seeking to expand its Acute Medicine team and is looking to appoint a Consultant in Acute Medicine to work primarily at our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, but also across other sites. This is the first purpose-built hospital of its kind in the country and provides a unique way of delivering high quality care to our patients.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the highest standards of recruitment to ensure we attract and employ the very best of candidates. To meet this standard, we have developed a detailed and thorough selection event for our shortlisted candidates.

We are proud at being twice rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC two years running, we are an innovative and progressive university trust.

We are committed to ensuring a safe and high quality of patient care and we are looking for caring, committed people who share our values, to help us deliver outstanding healthcare. Take a look around our organisation by clicking on the below link, we have a lot to offer and it is an exciting time to be joining the team:

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant Acute Care Physician (ACP) at The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (on a full-time or part-time basis) with or without a specialist interest.

The post holder’s primary roles will be the provision of medical leadership for the Acute Medical Units and Same Day Emergency Care.

Please see the attached job description for a comprehensive review of duties and responsibilities.

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 see the attached job description for a comprehensive review of duties and responsibilities.

The recruitment process for the vacancy you have applied for is based upon the following key elements:

1. A competency-based recruitment interview.
2. The completion of two behavioural / thinking style psychometric tests which will be validated as part of the recruitment interview.
3. A clinical assessment which will be validated with you at the recruitment interview.
4. An opportunity for you to meet the team and visit the department is recommended.

The post is subject to the Medical and Dental Staff Terms and Conditions of Service.

Person specification

Qualification

• MRCP
• Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council’s Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview
• Full accreditation with the appropriate Royal College
• Full GMC Registration
• Educational Qualification

Experience & Knowledge

• Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT).
• Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
• Experience of and commitment to medical audit and quality improvement.
• Experience of audit management
• Teaching of non-medical health professionals.

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust’s interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name: Jane Atkinson

Job title: Consultant in Acute Medicine

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Additional information:

Graeme Lowery
General Manager

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