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Main area
Respiratory
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 4 years
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
214-MED-6053520-A
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton-In-Ashfield
Salary
£93,666 - £126,281 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine

Consultant

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic colleague to join the Department of Respiratory Medicine on a fixed-term basis. This post will involve in-patient, out-patient and on-call emergency work at King’s Mill Hospital as well as out-patient work at Newark Hospital.

Our department currently has three base wards for in-patients at King’s Mill Hospital with an eight-bedded respiratory support unit to allow acute and chronic non-invasive ventilation. 

Main duties of the job

The over-riding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

Respiratory outpatient clinics are held at King’s Mill and Newark Hospitals as well in the Ashfield and Mansfield Community Hospitals. As well as general Respiratory out-patient clinics, we have also sub-specialist clinics for Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Disease, Sleep/Ventilators, COPD, TB and Bronchiectasis. We sees approximately 2600 new outpatients per year and over 6400 follow up patients. There are bronchoscopy sessions at both King’s Mill Hospital and in Newark. We also perform Endobronchial ultrasound, Thoracoscopy and indwelling pleural catheters at King’s Mill. We support pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen services at three sites across mid-Nottinghamshire.

Working for our organisation

We have excellent clinical support from 10 respiratory physiologists with access to full pulmonary function tests, exhaled nitric oxide, exercise tests and muscle strength tests. There are also facilities for in-patient and out-patient sleep studies, with 4000 patients under follow-up for sleep disorders. We also organises the community oxygen assessment programme.

We are well served by the Radiology department with 2 consultants who specialise in Chest Radiology. We have weekly support from the tertiary oncology centre in Nottingham with 2 oncologists and a thoracic surgeon attending our local MDT. We have 3 lung cancer specialist nurses and 3 respiratory specialist nurses.

We have an established research portfolio including recruitment into lung cancer and COPD and ILD and COPD studies with support from a responsive Research and Innovation department.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full job details and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered with the General Medical Council
  • Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate thesis
  • Completed fellowship programme

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan
  • Understanding of all aspects of Respiratory Medicine
Desirable criteria
  • Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR equivalent training programme
  • Experience at locum consultant level

Teaching

Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrable ability as an educational supervisor and teacher with evidence of training for the role

Research

Desirable criteria
  • Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
David Hodgson
Job title
Respiratory Head of Service
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07831 111247
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