Respiratory Consultant

Transformation Unit; Gillingham; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Consultant Chest Physician to join our Respiratory Team. The post supports inpatient and outpatient Thoracic Medicine with opportunities to focus on ILD or Sleep and Ventilation, alongside a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

We offer a supportive culture with flexible working and opportunities for leadership, teaching and research within a nine-consultant team and a dedicated Respiratory Ward and MDT.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and a license to practice.
• MRCP (or equivalent) required for eligibility.
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory Medicine (or via equivalent pathways).
• Higher degree/diploma in a relevant clinical, research, educational or managerial subject.

Responsibilities

• Join the Respiratory Team as Consultant Chest Physician and provide inpatient and outpatient Thoracic Medicine services.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to manage respiratory patients, including NIV, CPAP and HFNO.
• Participate in a seven-day respiratory service rota and contribute to service development.
• Lead and teach junior doctors, with opportunities in leadership, teaching and research.
• Support the NHS Trust’s Patient First and Operational Excellence agenda.

Skills

ILD expertise

Sleep Medicine

Clinical leadership

Education

GMC registration and license to practice

MRCP (or equivalent)

GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory Medicine

Higher degree/ diploma in clinical, research, educational or managerial subject

Job description

Interview Date: To be confirmed

We are recruiting for an Consultant Respiratorywho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

Applications are invited for a new full time post (part-time / job share would be considered) as Consultant Chest Physician to join our friendly, progressive and enthusiastic Respiratory Team here at Medway Foundation NHS Trust. The appointees will join the nine existing Consultant Chest Physicians who provide a comprehensive inpatient and outpatient Thoracic Medicine service for the Medway and Swale population of 427,000.

In 2024 we moved in to a purpose built respiratory ward with 19 Level 1 beds and a 7 bed level 1.5 Respiratory Support Unit/HDU with a dedicated 7 day/24 hour junior doctor rota, allowing us to manage sick respiratory patients needing non-invasive support (including NIV, CPAP and HFNO). We work collaboratively with our colleagues in Critical Care in managing these patients and one of our consultants is dual accredited and works across both departments.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time ?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The department consists of 9 consultants, 3 Registrars from the KSS Deanery, an SAS doctor, a ward resident doctor team and a very experienced and supportive AHP team including Acute Respiratory CNSs / Physio, an ACP, an ILD Pharmacist, domiciliary ventilation CNSs and TB and lung cancer CNSs. We have a dedicated cancer MDT coordinator, respiratory and sleep physiology team, dedicated secretarial support and of course the ward nursing team supported by a Matron and Service Manager.

We also work closely with a proactive Interventional Radiology team to assess intermediate high risk PEs and treat with catheter directed lysis in selected cases.

We provide a respiratory in-reach service to the general medical take and provide a high quality, well organised, consultant led seven day respiratory service. There are a number of procedure lists including EBUS, local anaesthetic thoracoscopy, bronchoscopy and IPCs.

This post is to further develop our Respiratory Department and enable us to continue to deliver high quality services into the future.

We are looking for a Consultant with an interest in ILD or sleep and ventilation but there is flexibility to accommodate other interests and we would welcome an informal discussion.

Respiratory Medicine is part of the Medicine and Emergency Care Division. The Consultants in the Respiratory department are currently not job planned to do the weekend GIM take rota but run a respiratory weekend on-call rota – this is currently under review and there may be a small GIM contribution (weekends) in the future.

We pride ourselves on maintaining a supportive and collegiate culture with a great work-life balance where consultants are encouraged to develop individual interests while working collaboratively to deliver high-quality patient care.

Whether you are an established consultant or a senior trainee approaching CCT, you will join a supportive consultant body with strong subspecialty expertise, excellent multidisciplinary support and numerous opportunities for service development, leadership, teaching and research.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and a license to practice
• MRCP (or equivalent)
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in respiratory medicine (general internal medicine desirable) via one of the following: 1. Certificare of completiong of training (CCT) (the proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) 2. Portfolio pathway (application must be submitted and progressing) 3. Relevant European specialist qualification (REQ) or Recognised Specialist Qualification (RSQ)
• Higher degree/diploma in relevant clinical, research, educational or managerial subject

Knowledge

• Competency in the management of all aspects of Respiratory Medicine.

Experience

• Competency in the management of all aspects of general Respiratory Medicine and GIM
• Experience in ILD or Sleep Medicine

Value Based Question

• How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?

We are committed to Equality of Opportunity for everyone and will guarantee an interview to any disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

Medway Maritime Hospital is a smoke free site. Smoking is completely prohibited in all Trust buildings, grounds and car parks for patients, visitors, staff and contractors. This will ensure that the hospital is a better place to work and a better place for our patients to be treated

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.