Consultant Psychiatrist

Overview

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Consultant Psychiatrist

The closing date is 17 February 2026

We are looking to employ a new Consultant to join our current supportive Consultant body. The post holder will work primarily in the Memory Clinic and the Young Onset Dementia Service. There will be an additional PA supporting the MHSOP Community Mental Health Teams including managing long term conditions alongside a specialist MHSOP pharmacist. There is a full time Specialty Doctor currently working into the Memory Clinic. The post will be part of the Newcastle / North Tyneside Old Age Consultant rota with SPR cover which is coordinated by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

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 post will be comprised of a combination Memory Clinic, Young Onset Dementia Service and a smaller component of CMHT work.

The post will have 8.5 clinical PAs split as follows: Memory Clinic (5.5 PAs); Young Onset Dementia Service (2 PAs); and 1 PA supporting the MHSOP Community Mental Health Teams including managing long term conditions alongside a specialist MHSOP pharmacist.

The post involves providing clinical supervision of a foundation trainee working into the Memory Clinic, as well as future opportunities to be involved with undergraduate and postgraduate education, depending on the applicant's interest (all of which would attract appropriately allocated PA time within the job plan).

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

• The sessional commitment will be agreed with individual candidates.
• All Job Plans will have at least 1.5 SPAs additional SPA time is given to additional activities and can be negotiated. We are keen to attract those with interests in teaching and research with negotiated addition SPA time available for those with appropriate experience or wishing to develop these areas.
• The Job Plans below are indicative. The department is flexible and would be keen to discuss alterations to clinical commitments to better suit individual candidates strengths and interests.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Member of the Royal College Psychiatrists
• 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. Higher Trainees may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview
• To have Approved Clinician status and Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act (1983) at commencement of the post
• The appointee will be required to maintain full GMC registration and revalidation and should follow the GMC Code of Good Medical Practice.
• Experience of audit
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates
• Experience of supervising junior doctors
• Formal training in clinical supervision/'Train the Trainers' course

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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