Job summary
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
The successful applicants will have already completed Foundation Training or equivalent and hold a full GMC registration with a license at the time of application. Familiarity with the NHS and a demonstrable existing interest in Infectious Diseases are both desirable but not essential.
Post to commence 6 August 2025 until 4 August 2026.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
We typically receive several hundred applications for ST1/2 locally employed doctor posts and we will therefore only shortlist candidates with paid NHS experience (this does not include Clinical Access or Clinical Observership placements) which is an essential criteria within the Person Specification. Please do not apply if you do not have paid NHS experience as this leads to significant clinician time reviewing applications from applicants who will not be shortlisted.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
To work within the Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine (ITM) to provide good clinical care to patients presenting or being referred to the Trust for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic infections and/or other general medical problems.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding this opportunity, please contact the Head of Department, Dr Ewan Hunter, on 0191 213 9813, or via email at: ewan.hunter1@nhs.net or Dr Ashley Price, on 0191 2823711, or via e-mail david.price15@nhs.net
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
The scope of clinical work that the post holder will be called on to contribute will include:
Clinical management of in-patients under the care of the ITM team. This may variously include patients admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary on Ward 19 (main infection ward, with negative pressure isolation facilities), High Level Isolation Unit (HLIU), Ward 5 (patients with a mix of general medical and infection-related problems, generally of lower acuity and/or complexity), general medical patients boarded to other wards, and joint care of patients under other specialist teams who have been referred to ITM.
Contribution to ITM outpatient clinics, including individual consultants general infection clinics along with specialist clinics in Tb, HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Outpatient Antibiotic Treatment (OPAT), Chronic Fatigue and post-COVID syndromes.
Out-of-hours. Any post holder may have the opportunity to gain specialty on-call experience by contributing to the ITM out-of-hours rota. This is not mandatory, would receive a level of consultant support appropriate to the individuals level of experience, and can be negotiated separately to the core contract.
Administrative
Maintaining clear documentation of all clinical activity, including correspondence to GPs.
Supporting the timely completion of discharge summaries.
Ensuring mandatory documentation for all admitted patients is completed for purposes of audit and quality (e.g. venous thromboembolism prophylaxis, dementia assessments).
Research
There is no formal research component, although there may be opportunities to contribute to recruitment of patients to clinical trials. This would be contingent on completing training in Good Clinical Practice, which would be supported.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
The scope of clinical work that the post holder will be called on to contribute will include:
Clinical management of in-patients under the care of the ITM team. This may variously include patients admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary on Ward 19 (main infection ward, with negative pressure isolation facilities), High Level Isolation Unit (HLIU), Ward 5 (patients with a mix of general medical and infection-related problems, generally of lower acuity and/or complexity), general medical patients boarded to other wards, and joint care of patients under other specialist teams who have been referred to ITM.
Contribution to ITM outpatient clinics, including individual consultants general infection clinics along with specialist clinics in Tb, HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Outpatient Antibiotic Treatment (OPAT), Chronic Fatigue and post-COVID syndromes.
Out-of-hours. Any post holder may have the opportunity to gain specialty on-call experience by contributing to the ITM out-of-hours rota. This is not mandatory, would receive a level of consultant support appropriate to the individuals level of experience, and can be negotiated separately to the core contract.
Administrative
Maintaining clear documentation of all clinical activity, including correspondence to GPs.
Supporting the timely completion of discharge summaries.
Ensuring mandatory documentation for all admitted patients is completed for purposes of audit and quality (e.g. venous thromboembolism prophylaxis, dementia assessments).
Research
There is no formal research component, although there may be opportunities to contribute to recruitment of patients to clinical trials. This would be contingent on completing training in Good Clinical Practice, which would be supported.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at the time of application
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good history & examination skills.
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis
- Able to order appropriate investigations
- Image interpretation relevant to practice.
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague.
- Prior NHS employment as GMC-registered medical doctor.
- Completion of Foundation Training years 1 and 2.
Desirable
- Prior NHS employed experience as GMC-registered medical doctor in Infection-related speciality, including research posts.
Maintaining clinical competence
Essential
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date, e.g. workplace-based assessments
Desirable
- Proven management and administration ability
- Understanding of management goals
- Experience with audit
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
Teaching
Desirable
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students and junior peers
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Desirable
- Experience of audit and or QI projects
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential
- Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
- Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's Values.
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Time management skills.
- Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality.
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership skills
- IT literate
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at the time of application
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good history & examination skills.
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis
- Able to order appropriate investigations
- Image interpretation relevant to practice.
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague.
- Prior NHS employment as GMC-registered medical doctor.
- Completion of Foundation Training years 1 and 2.
Desirable
- Prior NHS employed experience as GMC-registered medical doctor in Infection-related speciality, including research posts.
Maintaining clinical competence
Essential
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date, e.g. workplace-based assessments
Desirable
- Proven management and administration ability
- Understanding of management goals
- Experience with audit
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
Teaching
Desirable
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students and junior peers
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Desirable
- Experience of audit and or QI projects
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential
- Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
- Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's Values.
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Time management skills.
- Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality.
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership skills
- IT literate
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
