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Salaried GP
The closing date is 28 December 2025
The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops. The post will be spent at Hexham General Hospital to support older people's services there.
The Job Plan will typically include an average of 4 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date if a suitable number of applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The care of the elderly department has a range of specialist interests and a successful candidate will complement the other members of the department. We expect the focus of this post to be within the elderly assessment unit in Hexham, offering same day assessment for frail patients in crisis, working closely with community and primary care colleagues.
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
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to assisting all employees to achieve a work-life balance, regardless of their personal circumstances. Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time, will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with Consultant and senior colleagues.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC Registration
* MBBS or equivalent
Experience
* 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 General/Core Medical training or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty
* Experience & understanding of Quality Improvement & Audit Management
* At least two years' experience of Care of Elderly
* ALS
* Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
* Experience of supervising junior doctors & nurse practitioners
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
Depending on experience, Locally Agreed NPC GP pay rates: £11,014-£12,266 pps/pa
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