Overview
We are looking to employ a new Consultant to join our current supportive Consultant body. The post holder will work primarily in the Memory Clinic and the Young Onset Dementia Service. There will be an additional PA supporting the MHSOP Community Mental Health Teams including managing long term conditions alongside a specialist MHSOP pharmacist. There is a full time Specialty Doctor currently working into the Memory Clinic. The post will be part of the Newcastle / North Tyneside Old Age Consultant rota with SPR cover which is coordinated by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. The post will be comprised of a combination Memory Clinic, Young Onset Dementia Service and a smaller component of CMHT work.
Responsibilities
* Work primarily in the Memory Clinic and the Young Onset Dementia Service.
* Provide an additional PA supporting the MHSOP Community Mental Health Teams, including managing long term conditions alongside a specialist MHSOP pharmacist.
* Collaborate with the full-time Specialty Doctor currently working into the Memory Clinic; be part of the Newcastle / North Tyneside Old Age Consultant rota with SPR cover coordinated by the trust.
* Be part of a post comprised of Memory Clinic, Young Onset Dementia Service and a smaller component of CMHT work.
* Have 8.5 clinical PAs split as follows: Memory Clinic (5.5 PAs); Young Onset Dementia Service (2 PAs); and 1 PA supporting the MHSOP Community Mental Health Teams including managing long term conditions alongside a specialist MHSOP pharmacist.
* Provide clinical supervision of a foundation trainee working into the Memory Clinic, with future opportunities to be involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education (subject to PA time within the job plan).
Environment
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. Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital represents innovation and quality within the Trust.
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