# Clinical Director for Community Services > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-director-for-community-services/99b5a72b-45ad-47c4-a3d9-f429a41cbd9f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-director-for-community-services/99b5a72b-45ad-47c4-a3d9-f429a41cbd9f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Newcastle Upon Tyne - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** £104,401 - £115,341 per annum - **Contract type:** 2 years (Fixed term post) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T16:33:35.715Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Newcastle_upon_Tyne/The_Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Medicine/Medicine-v8096025 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8096025?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for a qualified General Practitioner to join us as a Clinical Director in Community and Older People’s Medicine Services to work with us to transform services that offer planned care to elderly community patients with a focus of maintaining health and wellbeing and also to develop services that respond to acute deteriorations in health and/or function in the community. We anticipate this work to also heavily involve development of a neighbourhood health model with local stakeholders. The postholder would also be expected to provide clinical sessions depending on background and experience either in supporting community frailty services, intermediate care or the older people’s day unit. ### Main duties of the job The postholder will support the continued transformation of planned and unplanned older people’s community services within the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust and wider city of Newcastle.  Working in partnership with the Clinical Director of Older People’s Medicine and the Clinical Chair for the board of Medicine, Emergency Care and Community the postholder will be expected to oversee the governance, quality and development of community services such as the Urgent Community Response Team, Same Day Response Team, Community Response and rehabilitation Team, and Specialist Care Home Support Team. They will also be expected to support with the strategic development of these services, and support the development of neighbourhood working. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities M - To manage urgent older people’s presentations and ensure that patients are seen and treated by most appropriate healthcare professional. - Manage a clinical caseload of older adult patients, supported by Geriatricians as required - Work closely with the hospital Older People’s Medicine team, community frailty teams and intermediate care teams - A degree of flexibility will be required in keeping with the variability and demands of the case mix ## Job Details We are looking for a qualified General Practitioner to join us as a Clinical Director in Community and Older People’s Medicine Services to work with us to transform services that offer planned care to elderly community patients with a focus of maintaining health and wellbeing and also to develop services that respond to acute deteriorations in health and/or function in the community. We anticipate this work to also heavily involve development of a neighbourhood health model with local stakeholders. The postholder would also be expected to provide clinical sessions depending on background and experience either in supporting community frailty services, intermediate care or the older people’s day unit. ## Job Description The postholder will support the continued transformation of planned and unplanned older people’s community services within the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust and wider city of Newcastle. Working in partnership with the Clinical Director of Older People’s Medicine and the Clinical Chair for the board of Medicine, Emergency Care and Community the postholder will be expected to oversee the governance, quality and development of community services such as the Urgent Community Response Team, Same Day Response Team, Community Response and rehabilitation Team, and Specialist Care Home Support Team. They will also be expected to support with the strategic development of these services, and support the development of neighbourhood working. ## Responsibilities M - To manage urgent older people’s presentations and ensure that patients are seen and treated by most appropriate healthcare professional. - Manage a clinical caseload of older adult patients, supported by Geriatricians as required - Work closely with the hospital Older People’s Medicine team, community frailty teams and intermediate care teams - A degree of flexibility will be required in keeping with the variability and demands of the case mix ## Person Specification ### Teaching **Desirable** - Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. - Ability to teach clinical skills. ### Clinical Experience **Essential** - Working as a medical practitioner with experience of urgent presentations in older people **Desirable** - Older People’s Medicine experience ### Management and Administration Experience **Essential** - Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Board to the Trust and its workforce. - Experience in clinical service development and innovation - Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development. - Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues. - An understanding of Clinical Governance. - Experience working at a system level in service development **Desirable** - Understanding of management goals. ### Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills **Essential** - Primary Medical Qualification. - CCT in General Practice **Desirable** - Experience in a primary care, ICB or acute provider leadership role ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 679.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10389795) - [newcastle staff benefits (pdf, 274.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2721) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.