Consultant in Sleep Medicine and Respiratory Medicine

Job overview

This post is to help the Sleep department deal with an increasing workload and to provide succession planning with the retirement of existing clinicians. The successful candidate will have experience of and a particular interest in sleep medicine. Candidates will be expected to contribute actively to the management, teaching, audit and research activities of the department.

Applicants must hold the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians or an equivalent postgraduate diploma, have completed a period of higher professional training and must possess, or be within six months of obtaining the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT). On the date of taking up the appointment, the successful candidate’s name must appear on the Specialist Register.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to provide a minimum of five sleep clinics with associated clinical administration, reporting and discussion time for polysomnography, and time for supporting professional development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job plan provides scheduling details of the clinical activity and clinically related activity components of the job plan that occur at regular times in the week. There is no on call associated with this part of the post. Remote clinics will be done from home with IT equipment supplied. Clinics will consist of a mix of new and follow up patients and each session will contain 9 patients, 30 minutes allowed for new and 20 for follow up.

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.