Consultant - Respiratory Medicine YM72

Job overview

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a substantive, full-time Consultant in Respiratory Medicine with a subspecialty interest in Bronchiectasis and Tuberculosis (Host Defence) and a secondary interest in Sleep Apnoea, alongside general respiratory medicine.

You will join a friendly, well-established department of 14 respiratory consultants, delivering high-quality inpatient, outpatient, and virtual hospital care across Watford General Hospital and Hemel Hempstead Hospital.

This is an excellent opportunity to take a senior role in the Trust’s TB and Bronchiectasis service, work within a supportive multidisciplinary team, and contribute to innovative models of care including our award-winning Virtual Hospital.

There is a commitment to the NIV and Respiratory oncall but no General Internal Medicine (GIM) on-call commitment.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Provide high-quality inpatient respiratory care, including ARCU cover, on a 1 in 10 rota
• Participate in bronchoscopy lists (approximately 1 in 3)and pleural procedure lists
• Contribute to the acute NIV on-call rota (1 in 12 weekdays; 1 in 10 weekends)
• Deliver specialist outpatient clinics including:
• Bronchiectasis / Host Defence
• Tuberculosis
• Sleep medicine
• General / urgent respiratory (“hot”) clinics
• Participate in the Respiratory Virtual Hospital (1 in 10 weeks)
• Participate in Bronchiectasis, TB and pleural MDTs
• Support and supervise junior doctors and allied health professionals, acting as an Educational Supervisor (or working towards accreditation)
• Engage in audit, quality improvement, service development, and departmental governance
• Contribute to teaching, innovation, and research within respiratory medicine

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The management responsibility of the post-holder will be to the clinical lead for Respiratory (Dr Matthew Knight who is responsible to the Divisional Director (Dr. Niall Keenan), the Medical Director (Dr Michael van der Watt) and Chief Executive and Trust Board.

The detailed job description and person specification included in job description and person specification>

• Programmed Activities: 10 PAs standard (up to 12 negotiable).
• On-call: 1:10 weekend NIV and 1:12 weekday NIV.

Sites: Watford General Hospital (main base) and Hemel Hempstead Hospital; occasional attendance at St Albans City Hospital