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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

• The successful appointee/ trainee will have the opportunity to work and gain clinical experience at the cardio-thoracic centre, specifically the inpatient and outpatient pulmonary hypertension or cardiology unit and the Institute of Transplantation in the Freeman Hospital.
• A clear timetable of clinical duties primarily focused on the management of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), with exposure to wider pulmonary vascular disorders, pulmonary vasculitides (or cardiac conditions, as appropriate if a cardiology based applicant).
• There will be protected research time included in the post, and opportunities to participate in Pulmonary Hypertension-specific research and clinical audit, including collaborative research with other research centres.
• This post provides the opportunity to learn and gain experience in the investigation and management of pulmonary hypertension patients.

The successful appointees/ trainees will have had the opportunity to:

• Gain experience in the assessment and management of patients with suspected pulmonary arterial hypertension.
• Involvement in PAH clinical research.
• exposure to wider pulmonary vascular disease including the management of pulmonary arterio-venous malformations and pulmonary vasculitides.
• Cardiology applicant exposure to the management of congenital heart disease with pulmonary vascular involvement.

Administrative:

• The successful appointees/ trainees will be responsible for maintaining in-patient and outpatient records, discharge summaries and communication with specialist referring teams and General Practitioners regionally in adherence with GDPR and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust regulations.

 Research:

• The successful appointees/ trainees will be encouraged and supported in the departments of clinical research and clinical trial activity related to clinical research projects in pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation. Protected time 2 PAs per week will be protected for clinical research activities.

 Teaching:

• The successful appointee/ trainee will have the opportunity to contribute to the teaching programme of undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees attached to the department which is part of the medical and surgical teaching and training programme for Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust. The department has an active educational respiratory teaching programme which the successful appointees/ trainees will be have the opportunity for protected educational and research activity.

 Other:

There may be an opportunity for out of hours working on the respiratory (or cardiology) middle grade rota with this post subject to Directorate approval, which would attract the appropriate banding supplement subject to on call rota requirements and Directorate approval.  On call duties include cover for new admissions and existing respiratory (or cardiology) patients, as well as pulmonary hypertension, and heart/ lung transplant patients based on outlying wards such as ward 25 and 30 in the Cardiothoracic block, and ward 38 based at the Institute of Transplantation. This will be discussed with the appointees/ trainees.

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 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.