Locally Employed Doctor (Higher) in Respiratory Medicine - QEHB

Job summary

Applications are invited for the post of Locally Employed Doctor (Higher) in Respiratory Medicine based at QEHB, commencing as soon as possible.

The Respiratory Medicine group at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is staffed with sixteen consultants, five deanery specialist training registrars, two clinical lecturers and one international fellowship trainee.

Main duties of the job

Respiratory inpatient service covers two wards (515 and 516) each with 36 beds. There are regular consultant ward rounds and board rounds. We also participate in general internal medicine on call rota and our trainees participate in acute medicine rota. Both wards have a full host of respiratory acute and subacute presentations and trainees get excellent experience in managing respiratory emergencies. A dedicated acute NIV service helps managing patients with hypercapnoic respiratory failure.

We have a whole variety of sub speciality opportunities and a number of tertiary care clinics available for trainees to get exposure to; including Severe and Brittle asthma, Interstitial lung disease, lung transplant, sarcoidosis, pleural, sleep, respiratory failure, COPD, lung cancer, TB and general respiratory clinics. The department runs twice weekly EBUS/bronchoscopy lists, weekly trans-bronchial biopsy / flexible bronchoscopy list, fortnightly medical thoracoscopy list and weekly pleural clinic. There is a weekly departmental teaching session, weekly radiology meeting and weekly lung cancer MDT as well. On periodic basis, we also hold fungal and NTM MDTs. Queen Elizabeth Hospital has a state of the art physiology department offering whole host of respiratory physiology testing. A variety of specialist nurses support various clinics as well.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Details

• Date posted: 01 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Salary: £67,325 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 15015
• Job locations: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

*Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and colleagues.

*Provide support to junior team including trainees, LEDs and ACPs.

*Contribution to undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical education.

The post holder will share the clinic and inpatient referrals with other trainees and provides support to ST, FY2 and FY1 doctors in caring for respiratory inpatients. The post will require work at nights and weekends on the on-call rota for acute medicine in Clinical Decisions Unit, New Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The post would particularly suit someone with experience in respiratory medicine whom is planning to pursue this speciality as a career