A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to advertise an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious Clinical Pharmacologist with a specialist interest in Clinical Toxicology to join our well-established Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics team, based in the directorate of Internal Medicine, at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and to join the Newcastle Unit of the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS). We are a 5-consultant team with 3 Specialty Trainees.
To contribute to the clinical, academic and educational duties of the Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics team, providing excellent care, research and training across our scope of practice.
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 and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
· Delivery of clinical care to inpatients and outpatients under the General Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics team
· Participation in the our-of-hours medical consultant on call rota
· Participation in the National Poisons information Service consultant on-call rota (where applicable)
· Provision of direct clinical support for National Poisons Information Service, [Newcastle Unit], in relation to poisons and chemical exposures (where applicable)
· Contribution to the development of monographs on drug and chemical exposure held on TOXBASE (where applicable)
· Participate in the teaching and training of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and other health care professionals.
· Contribution to the wider range of CPT roles including Medicines Management, clinical research
· Support delivery of the specialist hypertension clinic
· The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis is on studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio. The post holder will be encouraged to contribute to existing clinical research projects.
· Undertake Continued Medical Education/Professional Development (CME/CPD) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Physicians.
· Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 42 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025
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