Consultant in Respiratory Medicine - special interest in Lung Cancer

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This is a new post (10PA) to support the NUTH lung cancer and general respiratory service, with opportunity to develop additional clinical interests in line with the needs of patients and NUTH respiratory teams.

The post holder will also contribute more widely to the respiratory work of the department, including seeing general respiratory referrals in clinic and opportunity to develop clinics in line with the needs of patients and NUTH respiratory teams.

This post is to commence October 2026.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

• To support and develop existing general respiratory and lung cancer service.
• Contribute to the general adult respiratory inpatient service.
• Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Katy Hester, Head of Respiratory Department, 0191 233 6161 Ext 39079 or [email protected]  or Dr Ann Ward, on 0191 21 37219, option 3, option 3 or [email protected] or Dr Sophie West on [email protected]

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

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

• Seeing new and review lung cancer patients in clinics
• Seeing new and review general respiratory medicine patients
• Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung cancer meeting
• Contribution to the bronchoscopy and EBUS service
• Support the adult respiratory service with a commitment to flexibly arrange sessions as service demands change and developing clinics in line with needs of patients, NUTH respiratory teams and own clinical interests.
• Contribute to the Respiratory ward and look after respiratory inpatients.

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

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.

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.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.