About this role
Job summary
This post is a whole time Speciality Doctor in Respiratory Medicine, encompassing general respiratory, sleep and cancer pathways.
The Department of Respiratory Medicine focuses on ambulatory respiratory services and is a rapidly expanding department. Apart from offering general respiratory outpatient services and full respiratory physiology facilities, the department looks after more than 6000 patients with sleep and ventilatory disorders, offers a combined hospital and community pulmonary rehabilitation programme, has a comprehensive home oxygen assessment and review service and offers specialist and daycase outpatient respiratory services. These include interventional bronchoscopy and EBUS, advanced COPD lung volume reduction work-up, difficult asthma, food allergy, occupational asthma, and pre-operative assessment and works closely with Thoracic Surgery (four surgeons), Lung Transplantation as well as the Lung Cancer Radiofrequency Ablation service. There are advanced plans to further expand services including development of a comprehensive one-stop medical-surgical pleural service, a multidisciplinary allergy service, a specialist respiratory diagnostic service (interstitial lung disease and difficult asthma), and a direct access breathlessness service.
This post may close early if a sufficient number of applications have been receievd. Please note that prior applicants for this position will not be reconsidered.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities - The principal role of this post is to provide clinical care for outpatients and inpatients with chronic and acute respiratory issues, as defined above.
To provide care to both inpatients and outpatients to ensure that patients are provided with the highest possible standard of diagnosis, treatment and care in the most effective and timely way.
Contribute to the interpretation and reporting of sleep studies (if applicable).
To work with the Divisional Director and the Respiratory Clinical lead to ensure the smooth running of the Respiratory Team and to undertake (when trained) Bronchoscopy within the Theatre environment.
To supervise, train and manage junior medical staff and research fellows working within Respiratory, to ensure high standards of clinical practice and efficient use of resources.
To undertake outpatient and daycase clinics, respiratory meetings and MDTs as necessary to a pro-gramme to be agreed with the Clinical Lead.
To actively participate in the further development of clinical audit and governance, further developing methods for capture and analysis of clinical data to measure outcomes and improve quality, in collaboration with the Trust's existing quality and governance framework.
There is no formal out of hours on call requirement for this post, however the post holder will be required to take part in informal rota arrangements (Mon to Friday in hours) for urgent inpatient consults, under the direction of the clinical lead.
About us
Harefield Hospital (HH) is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, and an international centre for adult heart and heart-lung transplantation. It is one of a small number of UK cardiac centres assisting in development of implantable mechanical ventricular assist devices in the management of end-stage heart failure. It also provides a primary intervention service for acute coronary syndromes to selected Trusts and the London Ambulance Service, in outer West London and the Home Counties. It has approximately 1,185 staff, 180 beds with 5 operating theatres, and 4 catheter laboratories.
Job description Job responsibilities
For further details, please see attached job description including person specification information.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training Essential
MRCP (or equivalent) Full GMC Registration
Desirable
CCT (or equivalent)
Experience Essential
At least 2 years clinical experience in Respiratory Medicine Independent management of outpatient clinics with consultant oversight
Desirable
At least 2 years clinical experience of sleep / NIV Experience of Lung Cancer
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities Desirable
Clinical Audit Clinical Teaching/Supervision Service Development
Other Essential
Commitment to continuing medical education
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Address Harefield Hospital
Hill End Rd
Harefield
UB9 6JH
Employer's website https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)