Job Description

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated Newcastle Hospitals Urgent & Emergency Care team.

We are looking for an existing General Practitioner to join us as a Clinical Director in Urgent Care and work with us to transform the urgent and emergency care pathway across a range of services including the Urgent Treatment Centres, Acute Medicine, the Emergency Department, and Paediatric Emergency Department. The postholder would also be expected to provide clinical sessions to the Urgent Treatment Centre. We are currently building a new Urgent Treatment Centre at the Royal Victoria Infirmary co-located alongside our existing Emergency Department and Major Trauma Centre and adjacent to our Acute Medical Unit and Same Day Emergency Care department. The successful candidate would be expected to play a leading role in developing the new Urgent Treatment Centre and new ways of working alongside other key services.

Main Duties of the Job

The postholder will support the transformation of urgent and emergency care pathways within the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust and the wider city of Newcastle. The postholder will oversee the governance, quality, and development of primary care services embedded within the Emergency Department, Urgent Treatment Centres, and Same Day Emergency Care. The postholder will work in partnership with partners in the trust to provide leadership to Urgent & Emergency Care services as we move to a more integrated model of delivering care. This will include but not be limited to working with clinical leaders and operational managers of Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Acute Paediatrics, and Urgent Treatment Centres to ensure patients are seen by the most appropriate service first time, improving access to timely emergency and urgent care and effective utilization of resources.

It is expected that the postholder will provide clinical sessions within the Urgent & Emergency Care system in keeping with their experience and skillset at a minimum of 2 sessions per week. The preference is for these to be delivered within the Urgent Treatment Centres.

About Us

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals

Job Responsibilities

• To manage urgent presentations and ensure that patients are seen and treated by the most appropriate healthcare professional.
• Manage a clinical caseload of both adults and children.
• Work closely with Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine including Same Day Emergency Care and Urgent Treatment Centre staff and offer consistent care as an integral part of the team.
• A degree of flexibility will be required in keeping with the variability and demands of urgent & emergency care.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• CCT in General Practice.
• Experience in a primary care, ICB or acute provider leadership role.

Clinical Experience

• Working as a medical practitioner with experience of urgent presentations.
• Acute Medicine, Acute Paediatrics or Emergency Medicine experience.

Management and Administration Experience

• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfill the obligations of the Board to the Trust and its workforce.
• Experience in clinical service development and innovation.
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Understanding of management goals.

Teaching

• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to teach clinical skills.

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.

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