Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine with Lung Transplant & PHNHS

Job summary

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This is a locum post (10PA) to support the NUTH lung transplant, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory service.

This post is to commence as soon as possible for 6 months.

The primary objective of this post is to support the Lung Transplant service with patient assessments, post-operative care and long term follow up. There will also be opportunity to support Pulmonary Hypertension service inpatient assessments and outpatient clinics. It is recognised that applicants may not have experience in both areas, and the Pulmonary Hypertension aspect of the post is flexible and training can be provided as needed.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

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 support lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory services.

Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine and Cardiothoracic Transplantation.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Katy Hester, Head of Respiratory Department, 0191 233 6161 Ext 39079 or [email protected] or Dr Gerry Meachery, 0191 21 39422, via email [email protected], or Dr Jim Lordan, via email [email protected] or 0191 24 48608.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Clinical:

This post will support the lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory service including the following clinical activity:

1. Inpatient and outpatient lung transplant assessments and post transplant care.

2. Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung transplant MDT and lung transplant physician of the week rota.

3. Contribution to the bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy service.

4. Pulmonary hypertension outpatients; inpatient assessment including pulmonary hypertension physician of the week rota (no out of hours work) and MDT.

5. Support the adult respiratory service with inpatient and outpatient work.

6. Participate in on call rotas for Lung Transplant and General Respiratory out of hours.

The appointee will have an equitable share in the attachment of junior medical staff and secretarial support.

Administrative:

The appointee will be expected to organise and ensure probity of their clinical practice and that of their supporting team so as to provide coordinated, quality care to patients in line with wider departmental objectives. This would include, for example, providing timely responses to clinical and related correspondence, appropriate management of waiting lists, supervision and assessment of trainees.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information on the Admin section.

Audit and CPD:

The Trust supports requirements for continuing professional development as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing support for these activities

Research:

The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis is that studies should fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio. The Respiratory Department at Freeman Hospital has a strong base in clinical and applied molecular biological research with dedicated facilities on site in the William Leech Centre at Freeman Hospital and laboratory facilities at the Medical School on the University Campus.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information on Research.

Teaching:

As with all other colleagues, the appointee will be expected to contribute to teaching activity when required as part of their appointment. The hospital is also a designated teaching centre for undergraduate medical students from Newcastle University. The appointee will be expected to attend and contribute at departmental meetings, administrative, audit, governance and academic teaching.

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.

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.