Consultant in Respiratory Medicine

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hospital-based benefits

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced Respiratory Medicine colleague for a permanent post. The role covers in-patient, out-patient, and on-call duties at King’s Mill Hospital, with outpatient work at Newark Hospital.

Clinics span general respiratory and sub-specialist services across multiple sites in mid-Nottinghamshire. The department operates a respiratory ward, bronchoscopy and sleep-study services, and supports pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen therapy.

Qualifications

• Clinical experience in adult Respiratory Medicine.
• Experience with in-patient and out-patient care is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-patient and out-patient respiratory care at King’s Mill Hospital and outreach at Newark Hospital.
• Undertake on-call emergency respiratory duties.
• Perform bronchoscopy sessions and contribute to sleep studies.
• Support sub-specialist clinics for Lung Cancer, ILD, COPD, TB and Bronchiectasis.

Job description

No Agencies

We are seeking an enthusiastic colleague to join the Department of Respiratory Medicine on a permanent basis. This post will involve in-patient, out-patient and on-call emergency work at King’s Mill Hospital as well as out-patient work at Newark Hospital.

Our department currently has three base wards for in-patients at King’s Mill Hospital with an eight-bedded respiratory support unit to allow acute and chronic non-invasive ventilation.

The over-riding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

Respiratory outpatient clinics are held at King’s Mill and Newark Hospitals as well in the Ashfield and Mansfield Community Hospitals. As well as general Respiratory out-patient clinics, we have also sub-specialist clinics for Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Disease, Sleep/Ventilators, COPD, TB and Bronchiectasis. We sees approximately 2600 new outpatients per year and over 6400 follow up patients. There are bronchoscopy sessions at both King’s Mill Hospital and in Newark. We also perform Endobronchial ultrasound, Thoracoscopy and indwelling pleural catheters at King’s Mill. We support pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen services at three sites across mid-Nottinghamshire.

We have excellent clinical support from 10 respiratory physiologists with access to full pulmonary function tests, exhaled nitric oxide, exercise tests and muscle strength tests. There are also facilities for in-patient and out-patient sleep studies, with 4000 patients under follow-up for sleep disorders. We also organises the community oxygen assessment programme.

We are well served by the Radiology department with 2 consultants who specialise in Chest Radiology. We have weekly support from the tertiary oncology centre in Nottingham with 2 oncologists and a thoracic surgeon attending our local MDT. We have 3 lung cancer specialist nurses and 3 respiratory specialist nurses.

We have an established research portfolio including recruitment into lung cancer and COPD and ILD and COPD studies with support from a responsive Research and Innovation department.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: David Hodgson Job title: Respiratory Head of Service Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07831111247