Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine with Lung Transplant & PH

Freeman Hospital; Carthage (MO); On-site; USD 114,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine with Lung Transplant & Pulmonary Hypertension. The post supports the lung transplant service with patient assessments, post-operative care and long-term follow up, commencing as soon as possible for 6 months (10PA).

It may include involvement in inpatient assessments and outpatient clinics. Applicants must be registered medical practitioners and eligible to join the Specialist Register

Qualifications

• Essential criteria require Primary Medical Qualification, Full GMC Registration and entry onto the GMC Specialist Register within six months.

Responsibilities

• Inpatient and outpatient lung transplant assessments and post-transplant care.
• Participation in the weekly multidisciplinary lung transplant MDT and lung transplant physician of the week rota.
• Contribution to the bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy service.
• Pulmonary hypertension outpatients and inpatient assessment including MDT.
• Support the adult respiratory service with inpatient and outpatient work.
• On-call rotas for Lung Transplant and General Respiratory out of hours.

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC Registration

Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register

Job description

Education, Qualifications And Specialist Skills

Essential criteria

Employer heading

Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine with Lung Transplant & PH

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This is a locum post (10PA) to support the NUTH lung transplant, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory service. This post is to commence as soon as possible for 6 months. The primary objective of this post is to support the Lung Transplant service with patient assessments, post-operative care and long term follow up. There will also be opportunity to support Pulmonary Hypertension service inpatient assessments and outpatient clinics. It is recognised that applicants may not have experience in both areas, and the Pulmonary Hypertension aspect of the post is flexible and training can be provided as needed. In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit. Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

To support lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory services.

Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine and Cardiothoracic Transplantation.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Katy Hester, Head of Respiratory Department, 0191 233 6161 Ext 39079 or [e-mail] or Dr Gerry Meachery, 0191 21 39422, via email [e-mail], or Dr Jim Lordan, via email [e-mail] or 0191 24 48608.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Clinical:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Inpatient and outpatient lung transplant assessments and post transplant care.
• Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung transplant MDT and lung transplant physician of the week rota.
• Contribution to the bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy service.
• Pulmonary hypertension outpatients; inpatient assessment including pulmonary hypertension physician of the week rota (no out of hours work) and MDT.
• Support the adult respiratory service with inpatient and outpatient work.
• 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 Trust’s 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 flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Person specification

Education, Qualifications And Specialist Skills

Essential criteria

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC Registration
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).

Desirable criteria

• Higher Degree

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
• Evidence of experience and competence in bronchoscopy
• Experience in Lung Transplantation
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in Pulmonary Hypertension

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance

Desirable criteria

• Ability to run a respiratory service and participate in management process
• Involvement with unit management and project leadership
• Proven management and administration ability and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership and project management
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
• Ability to review clinical guidelines

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate qualification in medical education
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
• Ability to teach clinical, technical and practical skills

Research

Essential criteria

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Higher degree. Research/critical review of literature.
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit

Essential criteria

• Evidence of participation in audit.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 694.1KB)
• Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
• Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Louise Scorfield Job title HR Advisor Email address [e-mail]