Consultant in Acute Medicine & Infectious Diseases

Northumbria Group.; Cramlington; Remote; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension

Lease car and home electronics scheme

Staff training & development

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Department of Acute Medicine is seeking Consultants in Acute Medicine and Infectious Diseases to join the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington. Applications are welcome on a full-time or part-time basis with flexible working patterns.

The post offers clinical leadership for AMU, SDEC and BIU, with opportunities to developing acute medicine services, teaching, and service improvement.

Qualifications

• MRCP or equivalent higher qualification.
• Fully registered on GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT.
• Full accreditation with the appropriate Royal College.
• Full GMC Registration.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and medical leadership for AMU/SDEC/BIU.
• Deliver high-quality, patient-centred care for adults with acute illnesses.
• Support service development and improvement, teaching and supervision.
• Participate in 7-day working as part of the normal pattern.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Teaching & education

Quality improvement

Education

MRCP

GMC Specialist Register (or within 6 months of CCT)

Royal College accreditation

Full GMC Registration

Job description

Consultant in Acute Medicine & Infectious Diseases

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Acute Medicine & Infectious Diseases Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

10 sessions per week (Less than full time hours available too) Job ref 319-8334673RW

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £113,565 - £150,569 Pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/11/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Department of Acute Medicine is looking to grow it's team and are seeking to appoint enthusiastic and committed Consultants in Acute Medicine and Infectious Diseases to join the team at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. Applications are welcomed on a full-time or part-time basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading emergency care hospitals, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to adults presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions. The successful candidates will play a key leadership role within a dynamic and innovative Acute Medicine and Infectious Diseases service, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the timely assessment, diagnosis and management of patients.

The post holder's primary responsibility will be to provide clinical and medical leadership for the Acute Medical Units (AMU) and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) services and Bone Infection Unit (BIU), supporting the delivery of safe and efficient patient pathways. They will contribute to the continued development of acute medicine services, promote excellence in patient care, and support service improvement.

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

Full details of the role are within the attached job description and applicants are invited to speak with our team using the contact details at the bottom of this advert.

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.

A typical week would consist of up to 10 (2-3 for ID work) Programmed Activities (PAs), including a minimum allocation of 1.5 SPAs for Supporting Professional Activities. Additional SPAs will be available dependent upon service need. There are additional PAs available for Education and Clinical supervision with 0.25 for first trainee and 0.125 for each subsequent trainee thereafter.

The Trust supports requirements for continuing professional development as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities. Further SPA activity will be agreed at job planning depending upon service needs (if the appointees were to undertake additional responsibilities in activities such as teaching, training or educational supervision, for example).

The Specialist Emergency Care Hospital will require Consultant Medical Staff to participate in 7 day working as part of their normal working pattern. Your normal working pattern will be agreed with you locally as part of your job plan and this may consist of shifts of variable working hours including evenings and weekends.

Working for our organisation

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!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Essential

• MRCP Certificate or an equivalent higher qualification
• Accreditation in Acute Medicine, General Medicine or General Medicine and Specialist interest
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required to gain entry to UK CCT.
• To be eligible for consideration for a Consultant appointment by an Appointments Committee, candidates must be fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register. Specialist Registrars may apply within 6 months of CCT at date of interview.
• The appointee will be required to maintain full GMC registration and revalidation and should follow the GMC Code of Good Medical Practice.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

• MRCP
• Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview.
• Full accreditation with the appropriate Royal College.
• Full GMC Registration.

Experience & Knowledge

• Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT).
• Expertise in subspecialty.
• Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
• Experience of and commitment to medical audit and quality improvement.
• Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning.
• Experience of QI management
• Educational Qualification

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Tom Lavender
Job title Consultant in Acute Medicine & Infectious Dieases
Email address [e-mail]
Telephone number 0191 6072468

Simon Ellis
Consultant in Acute Medicine and Infectious Dieases / Deputy Business Unit Director
[e-mail]
0191 6072468

Charlotte Routh
Consultant Head of Service in Acute Medicine
[e-mail]
0191 6072648