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Specialist Doctor
The closing date is 04 June 2026
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialist Doctor on a full-time basis based at North Tyneside General Hospital and supporting the delivery of our trust wide service.
The Mental Health Services for Older People is busy, friendly and dynamic. It benefits from close working relations with physician colleagues, particularly in Care of the Elderly Medicine. The service is based in modern accommodation on the North Tyneside General Hospital site.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.
Main duties of the job
The post will primarily provide its time into our Memory Clinic and Young Onset Dementia Service with time supporting the MHSOP Community Mental Health Teams including managing long term conditions alongside a specialist MHSOP pharmacist.
The post involves providing clinical supervision of a foundation trainee working into the Memory Clinic, as well as future opportunities to be involved with undergraduate and postgraduate education, depending on the applicant's interest.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
Jointly responsible for the provision of older peoples Mental Health Services to the elderly population of North Tyneside, numbering approximately 30,000. The post holder will work with managers and professional colleagues in ensuring maximum efficiency of the service.
Manage personal workload in such a way to ensure, where possible, service contract levels are achieved. Participate in the provision of cover on a shared basis with colleagues for periods of annual and study leave.
Provide continuing clinical responsibility for patients under his/her care and assume responsibility for and facilitate contact from members of staff with delegated duties for personally accountable patient care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
* Full registration and a License to Practice with the General Medical Council (GMC)
Experience
* Evidence of a minimum of 12 years post qualification clinical experience, with a minimum of 6 years in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades
* Experience of, and commitment to, teaching and training within the specialty
* Experience of clinical audit
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.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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