Consultant in Respiratory Medicine

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

This post offers an exciting opportunity for a Respiratory consultant to join an expanding, progressive and forward-thinking team of Respiratory clinicians, who provide a number of quality services to respiratory patients across South Warwickshire.

We are looking for a committed and passionate colleague to support and develop our Respiratory service at Warwick hospital. The job is offered on a 10 PA contract and will be a mixture of ward-based Physician of the week, and clinic weeks.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will support a 7 day inpatient service, as well as a varied outpatient program and contributing towards other services such as bronchoscopy, EBUS, pleural services. The consultant body also support with medical education, with students from both Warwick and Buckingham medical schools.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Job responsibilities

The principal element of the post will be to support the inpatient service in Respiratory Medicine at Warwick Hospital. The Consultant will have 10 sessions per week to support the Respiratory Physician of the Week and the Respiratory Registrars to manage all the Inpatient workload including referrals and procedures working approx. 1 in 4 weeks.

The Consultant will be required to undertake Weekend and Bank Holiday ward support for the Respiratory Service on a 1 in 4 basis which equates to 14 weekends approximately. We have a 7-day respiratory service for 365 days a year.

Please see job description for full details.

Person Specification Professional Experience

• On the GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory Medicine
• Expressed interest in undergraduate and postgraduate education
• Extensive experience of management of pleural disease
• GIM Accreditation

Academic achievements

• MRCP or equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.