Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine

Freeman; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Freeman Hospital seeks a consultant to lead and develop the lung transplant, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory service. The appointee will participate in multidisciplinary teams, contribute to bronchoscopy and biopsy services, and support inpatient and outpatient care with teaching and research commitments.

The role includes on-call duties for Lung Transplant and General Respiratory, with responsibilities spanning administration, trainee supervision, and maintaining high-quality

Qualifications

• Inpatient and outpatient responsibilities in lung transplantation and respiratory care.
• Participation in MDTs and rota for lung transplant physicians of the week.
• Bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy service involvement.
• Pulmonary hypertension outpatients and inpatients with MDT participation; no out-of-hours work.

Responsibilities

• Provide coordinated, high-quality patient care across transplant and respiratory services.
• Supervise and assess trainees; contribute to administrative and governance tasks.
• Support research and teaching activities within the department.
• Attend on-call rotas for Lung Transplant and General Respiratory outside normal hours.

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