Consultant in Respiratory Medicine

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS foundation trust as a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, providing essential patient care in both in-patient and out-patient settings. Collaborate with a skilled team to serve a diverse patient population, contribute to ongoing research, and enhance the quality of respiratory care within the community.

Qualifications

• Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan.
• Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR equivalent training programme.
• Experience at locum consultant level.

Responsibilities

• Support the provision of the highest quality patient care.
• Manage respiratory outpatient clinics and emergency work effectively.
• Participate in endobronchial ultrasound and thoracoscopy procedures.

Skills

Understanding of all aspects of Respiratory Medicine

Demonstrable ability as an educational supervisor

Education

Registered with the General Medical Council

Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination

Postgraduate thesis

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant in Respiratory Medicine

The closing date is 13 July 2025

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full job details and main responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Medical Council
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or equivalent
• Postgraduate thesis

Experience

• Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan
• Understanding of all aspects of Respiratory Medicine
• Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR equivalent training programme
• Experience at locum consultant level

Teaching

• Demonstrable ability as an educational supervisor and teacher with evidence of training for the role

Research

• Publications in peer-reviewed journals

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a yearper annum pro rata