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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical: 

This post will support the general respiratory and multi-disciplinary lung cancer service by: 

1. Seeing new and review general respiratory medicine patients
2. Seeing new and review lung cancer patients in clinics.
3. Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung cancer meeting
4. Support the adult respiratory service with a commitment to flexibly arrange sessions as service demands change.
5. Contribute to the Respiratory ward and look after respiratory in-patients.

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.

The appointee may also be required to support colleagues or the clinical director in running aspects of the department from time to time. This may include timely investigation of complaints – working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy. 

The appointee will:

• Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Physicians
• Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays
• It is a condition of employment that so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:

-be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control

-attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control

-include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development

-take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleague

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

ABOUT THE RESPIRATORY DEPARTMENT

There are currently 11 consultant respiratory physicians contributing to the clinical work of the department at Freeman. We provide in-patient care on a 31 bedded respiratory ward which takes patients from the assessment unit of the Royal Victoria Infirmary as well as planned subspeciality admissions e.g. bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension / transplant assessment. NIV provision is supported by specialist respiratory physiotherapists. The ward is supported by a trust grade registrar, and 3 IMT level doctors. There is additional support, particularly with specialist liaison referrals from speciality trainees undertaking specific sub speciality training modules and numerous clinical nurse specialists. We have excellent support from specialist thoracic radiologists (including interventional radiology), thoracic surgery and intensive care.

Current consultant team:

 Prof Tony De Soyza       Bronchiectasis, domiciliary ventilation, COPD

Prof Andy Fisher           Lung transplantation/ Pulmonary Hypertension

Dr Liz Fuller                  Lung cancer     

Dr Katy Hester              Bronchiectasis / COPD

Dr Kishor Lekhak           Lung cancer, pleural disease

Dr Lim Lordan               Lung transplantation/ Pulmonary Hypertension/ severe asthma

Dr Gerry Meachery        Lung transplantation/ Pulmonary Hypertension/ sleep

Dr Arun Nair                 Lung transplantation/ Pulmonary Hypertension

Dr Andrew Stanton        Pleural disease, severe asthma, lung cancer

Dr Ann Ward                Lung cancer

Dr Sophie West             Sleep

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. The Academic Respiratory Department has a prominent role within the Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle University. Academic Respiratory Medicine is led by Professor John Simpson. The grouping has 4 separate research laboratories (2 in the NUTRI, one in the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, plus the small satellite lab at Freeman Hospital). The first of these is a shared, communal lab space incorporating 3 closely interactive respiratory groups, encouraging exchange of ideas and facilities. The grouping has collective expertise in basic research, in vivo work, experimental medicine and large randomised controlled clinical trials. A distinct strength in Newcastle is the research contribution made by full-time NHS consultants, complementing and extending the outputs of the academic appointments. The broad academic interests of the grouping are described below (*indicates full-time NHS employees who lead clinical research). There is an academic clinical fellowship programme in addition to clinical research fellows participating in research programmes based on lung transplantation, innate immunity, pulmonary vascular disease and sleep medicine. There are clinical research fellows in post who also contribute to the on call rotas.

• Prof John Simpson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine (NUTRI) – neutrophil/monocyte biology, ventilator-associated pneumonia.
• Prof Andrew Fisher, Professor of Respiratory Transplant Medicine and Dean of Clinical Medicine – lung transplant.
• Prof Tony De Soyza (Population and Health science Institute, PHSI)– bronchiectasis and COPD.
• Dr Malcolm Brodlie (NUTRI) – cystic fibrosis and paediatric respiratory medicine.
• Dr Chris Ward (Institute of Cell and Biomedical Science and NUTRI) – respiratory airway epithelial biology and the pulmonary effects of reflux.
• Dr Stephen Bourke* – COPD.
• Dr Sophie West* – sleep medicine.
• Dr Ian Forrest*– interstitial lung disease.
• Dr Carlos Echevarria – COPD

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.