Consultant Physician (Sleep and Vent)

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in the UK seeks a dynamic Consultant in Respiratory Medicine to join their first-class team at the Royal Brompton Hospital. This full-time substantive post focuses on Home Ventilation, Sleep, and end-stage lung disease. The role includes high-quality clinical care across various settings, contributing to research and education, and potential participation in on-call duties. This position offers a unique opportunity to excel within one of the UK's top specialist centres for heart and lung diseases.

Benefits

Financial support from charity for scientific use

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality clinical care across inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• Deliver inpatient care, day unit review and outpatient clinics.
• Provide medical input to the outreach team for home ventilation.
• Supervise AHP-led pathways for sleep diagnostics and treatment.

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a dynamic individual committed to excellence in service delivery to join our first-class team of consultants at the Royal Brompton Hospital. This is a new full-time substantive post for a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine with expertise in Home Ventilation, Sleep and end-stage lung disease. The post offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the UK's leading specialist centres for heart and lung disease.

Clinical Duties

• Provide high quality clinical care across inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• Deliver inpatient care, day unit review and outpatient (face to face and virtual) clinics.
• Provide medical input to the outreach team (home ventilation in home or nursing home).
• Supervise AHP-led pathways for sleep diagnostics and treatment.

Academic/Research

• 0.5 academic/research duties as part of whole time equivalent.
• Contribute to research, education and service development.

Meetings

• Polysomnography MDT (hour).
• CPAP non adherence MDT.
• Outreach MDT.
• Triage MDT.
• Cross-site difficult OSA MDT.
• Weekly grand round held in the Respiratory Directorate.

On-call

There may be an opportunity in due course to join the respiratory on call roster (1:12) but this is not an expectation of this post.

Support

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity will provide financial support to the applicant for the first five years which can be used for any legitimate scientific use.

Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals and community services. It aims to reflect the diversity of the communities it serves and continues to develop new and existing partnerships.