Job summary
Employer heading
Consultant in Respiratory and Acute Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
The Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultants to work in Respiratory and Medicine at University Hospital Lewisham, which is a part of the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
The post is aimed at maintaining and developing the service. The department currently provides services in lung cancer, COPD, sleep and ventilation, pleural disease and TB services. We would be willing to accommodate candidates with these or other specialist interests to complement our current existing team.
The appointees will mainly work on Chestnut ward (AMU) which is a 46 bedded inpatient ward for acute medicine, these patients are admitted on the general medical take. It is well supported with a full MDT compromising of pharmacists, physiotherapists, social workers, SLT, Dieticians, MH practitioners and the nursing team. The successful applicant will also work within the Ambulatory Care and Same Day Emergency Care service supporting junior colleagues, ACP's and PA's.
Successful applicants will be involved in the development of the acute medical service and will be expected to participate in service development
Interview will be in January 2025
Main duties of the job
The acute physicians will spend the majority of their direct clinical care, and supporting professional activity time, working on the Acute Medical Unit, where they will lead the multi-professional team in the management of the acute medical patients. It is expected that they will lead ward rounds, direct the management of patients, assess patients, perform practical procedures, teach both junior medical and other staff, attend multidisciplinary meetings, take part in the governance activity of the department, participate in the management and administration of the service and liaise with other professionals both within and outside the trust as required.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Clinical Responsibilities
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The support and further development of the initiatives within the Department of Acute Medicine (as described above).
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To respond to inpatient and outpatient referrals from other specialties
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To provide direct clinical care on the Acute medical ward, ACU and SDEC
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To lead ward rounds and direct the management o patients
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To assess patients and perform practical procedures whilst teaching other staff
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To attend MDT meetings
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To provide prompt advice for General Practitioners
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To participate in educational and audit meetings
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To meet CPD and revalidation requirements
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To provide cover for Consultant colleagues during periods of leave
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To support the Hospital’s Clinical Governance Strategy
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To contribute to all other aspects of the Directorate and trust affairs
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Medical Education & Teaching
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Contribute to the weekly programme of educational activities, including foundation year and core medical training teaching programmes.
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Volunteer as an educational supervisor for doctors in training.
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Provide teaching and training to undergraduates and medical students both on the ward and in the outpatient department.
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Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance
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Take an active role in audit and governance projects to further the development of the service.
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Participate in the department’s monthly governance meetings which provide the opportunity to share audits, journals, latest evidence, serious incident reviews, morbidity and mortality reviews and other similar activities.
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Continuing Professional Development
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Participate in continuing professional development at local and national level
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Implement audit and research findings as appropriate in clinical practice
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Prepare and participate in an annual appraisal in accordance with Trust policy
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A willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
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Policy, Planning and Management
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Support the Trust to deliver quality patient care
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Contribute to the development of clinical and organisational protocols and guidelines
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Assist in the development of the Annual Service Plan for the Directorate and Division and participate in the strategic planning of the service
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Comply with all Trust policies
The list of duties given is not an exhaustive list and the post holder may be asked to undertake other duties in line with this grade of post as may be required by the Clinical Director from time to time.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- ▪ MBBS or equivalent.
- ▪ Full registration with the GMC and hold a license to practice MRCP (UK) or equivalent.
- ▪ To be on the GMC Specialist Register for Acute or General (Internal) Medicine or within six months of obtaining CCT on a UK training program or CESR at the time of interview
Desirable criteria
- ▪ Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- ▪ Other degrees, e.g. BSc MSc, MD.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- • Broad based training and wide experience of acute and general medicine.
- • Experience of working in an Acute Medical Unit
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of acute medical emergencies
- • Experience of working in a multi‐ cultural environment
Desirable criteria
- • Previous consultantlevel experience of working on an AMU / in ambulatory care, and / or in General Internal Medicine.
- • Subspecialty interest
Clinical Audit
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of participation in clinical audit.
- • Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and Clinical Risk.
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of involvement in audits that have been used to significantly improve patient care.
Teaching Experience
Essential criteria
- • Wide experience of, and strong commitment to, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- • Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of educational leadership roles.
- • Curriculum design.
Management and Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of organisational ability and experience of NHS management tasks
Desirable criteria
- • Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to consultant duties
Other Attributes
Essential criteria
- ▪ Evidence of leadership.
- ▪ Organisational ability.
- ▪ Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations.
- ▪ Able to get on with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- ▪ Credibility and integrity.
- ▪ A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives
- • Ability to establish good professional relationships with others.
- • Ability to engage in and lead change management.
- • Ability to plan strategically, execute tasks and to exercise sound judgment when faced with conflicting pressures.
Desirable criteria
- ▪ Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition.
- • An understanding of corporacy in the NHS.
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
- Amber Hawksley
- Job title
- Clinical Director for Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02083333000
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