Acute Medicine Trust Doctor

Acute Medicine Trust Doctor

The closing date is 24 November 2025

We have an opportunity for an Acute Medicine Trust Doctor, based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).

This role will balance your clinical time between our busy Acute Medicine inpatient unit (AMU) and our Medical Ambulatory Care (MAC) unit (which delivers same-day emergency care or SDEC). Your training needs will be discussed with a Clinical Supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below. Our team of Acute Medicine Consultant Physicians come from a diverse range of clinical backgrounds, including Clinical Infection, Elderly Medicine and Critical Care.

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

The type of clinical work and learning opportunities to expect:

• Working on busy AMU and Medical Ambulatory Care unit.
• Evening and weekend working as part of a roster.

Educational opportunities:

• Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history.
• Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance.
• Gain confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families.
• Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team.
• Understand the role of imaging and investigations, and how urgently these investigations may be needed.
• Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training junior trainees in these where appropriate.
• Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills.
• Attend / present interesting or challenging cases at our departmental meetings.
• Consider Quality Improvement / Clinical Audit opportunities within our department.

Working pattern:

To be confirmed at interview, but likely to be full-shift, including day shifts and twilight shifts in SDEC and AMU, with overall 1:5 weekends and 1 evening shift per week.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

Our Acute Medicine inpatient ward works in parallel alongside the other NSECH specialty admission wards (e.g. respiratory, cardiology, gastroenterology and elderly medicine).

The AMU is our specialist in-patient ward for:

• Acute oncology and complications of radiotherapy / chemotherapy
• Undifferentiated sepsis
• Headache

We also look after our share of acute General Medical admissions. Every day there is shop-floor presence of Consultant Physician(s) from 8am-8pm.

Training needs will be discussed with an educational supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted in the job description.

Person Specification Education & Qualifications

• MBBS or MBChB or equivalent
• Fully registered with the UK General Medical Council
• Completion of 2-year Foundation training programme or equivalent
• Valid Advanced Life Support (ALS) certificate (or equivalent)

Experience

• Paid UK NHS experience working as a doctor
• Experience of some aspects of Clinical Governance
• Experience of, and commitment to, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
• Experience of audit or quality improvement projects
• Experience of teaching basic medicine to undergraduates
• Evidence of experience of Clinical Research in Medicine

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.

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

322SL

Job locations

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital