Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory Medicine
- Grade
- ST3-ST8
- Contract
- Fixed term: 11 months (ASAP until 5 August 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (plus on-call)
- Job ref
- 317-TD-24-041-A
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chest Medicine Specialty - FH
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £55,329 - £63,152 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/09/2024 23:59
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Trust Doctor in Respiratory Medicine (ST3+)
ST3-ST8
Job overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
The vacancy has arisen for one Clinical Fellow (ST3+) in Respiratory Medicine, based within the Cardiothoracic Department, at the Freeman Hospital.
This post is to commence ASAP until 5 August 2025. Candidates must possess full GMC registration with a license to practise at time of application. Experience working within the NHS is desirable.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
This post is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in Respiratory Medicine, encompassing management of common and advanced respiratory diseases but also aspects of the specialty not readily available elsewhere. In particular, the Freeman Hospital is one of the UK’s leading highly specialised centre for advanced lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, bronchiectasis and sleep medicine services, with an internationally renowned centre for Lung Transplantation. The successful applicant will have a unique opportunity to gain some clinical experience in these respiratory sub-specialties. This post may be suitable for those considering a career in respiratory medicine who want more experience before applying for a Specialist Training post or for those who have completed Specialist Training but want more experience prior to becoming a consultant. To date, all the clinical fellows employed in this post who wanted to pursue respiratory specialist training have gone on to gain a national training number in respiratory medicine.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
The successful appointee will an opportunity to work mainly with all the Respiratory consultants based on Ward 29 at the Freeman Hospital which is the primary respiratory ward as well as the ward 38 which is the primary transplant ward based at the Institute of Transplantation at the Freeman Hospital.
A clear timetable of duties will be provided, but there will be the opportunity to experience some of the other specialist services indicated above, depending on individual interest with the broad case-mix of patients that are referred to attend the Freeman hospital both regionally and nationally with many forms of advanced lung disease. The timetabling of core duties will be determined with Educational Supervisor and Head of Department.
The department also provides a daily respiratory consultation and pleural service to other departments that present a unique opportunity for gaining experience with other regional services, namely Haematology, Bone marrow transplantation, renal and hepatology services, including renal and liver transplant patients, and a regional oncology service.
Administrative:
Responsibility for in-patient electronic records and discharge summaries for those patients admitted to the ward and communication with Specialist referring teams and General Practitioners regionally and nationally across the United Kingdom as necessary. Responsibility for updating participant records in Targeted Lung Health Checks bespoke software system.
Other:
Participation in the weekly Regional ST Teaching Programme is encouraged, plus attending GIM monthly teaching. This post includes on call cover which is for Freeman respiratory and transplant services out of hours on the middle grade rota alongside the respiratory specialist trainees; this is non-resident. This would attract the appropriate banding supplement. On call duties include cover for new admissions and existing respiratory patients on ward 29, as well as respiratory and 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. There is support from the Hospital at Night team overnight at Freeman.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC registration with a license to practise at time of application
- Full MRCP(UK) or equivalent
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good history & examination skills
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis
- Able to order appropriate investigations
- Image interpretation relevant to practice
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague
- Evidence of competence in care of Respiratory patients at CMT 2/ST level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience
- Emergency level thoracic ultrasound capability (BTS training standard)
- Capability in undertaking pleural aspiration and chest drain insertion with indirect supervision
- Evidence of seeing patients with respiratory disease independently in out patient clinics
Maintaining Clinical Competence
Essential criteria
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. procedural / clinic logs
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of participation in formal undergraduate and postgraduate educational activities
- Evidence of formal teaching training
- Formal teaching qualification
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Understands the importance of governance and audit
- Experience of participation in audit projects
Desirable criteria
- Completed audit project
- Participation in formal research activity
- Abstracts presented to learned societies
- Published papers
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
- Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines
- Evidence of excellent team working skills
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Alignment with the Trust’s Values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Time management skills
- Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills
- IT literate
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Scorfield
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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