Locum Consultant General Respiratory Medicine

Job overview

Respiratory Medicine at Glenfield Hospital has a national and international reputation for its academic and clinical services. This is a 12 month post and the 2 wte appointees will join a dynamic and forward thinking Respiratory team. You will contribute to our urgent and emergency care portfolio, support our inpatient base ward workload in line with the Keogh standards.

All patients are assessed in the Clinical Decisions (CDU) and Coronary Care Units (CCU) following referral from GPs, 999 ambulances and the Emergency Department. CDU is the largest single cardio-respiratory receiving unit in the UK taking 50+ patients, on average, daily. 70% of our attendances are direct from primary care. Supporting this emergency workload we developed ambulatory care services for pulmonary embolus and pleural disease. We manage 6 base respiratory wards (147 beds) each with a sub-specialist theme comprising a short stay unit (ward 20), non-invasive ventilation (ward 15a & ward 24), cystic fibrosis and chronic suppurative lung disease (Ward 16), TB and higher dependency (ward 17),  and pleural disease and cancer (ward 29).

A Cardiac and Respiratory Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service, run jointly with the Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) was established in 2021. It has been very successful and there are ambitious plans to develop it further. You will have the opportunity to influence the future of the respiratory SDEC by joining (and leading) an enthusiastic multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

Key Tasks for the post include:

• Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
• To share with colleagues responsibility for the day-to-day management of patients.
• To promote new ways of working and co-ordinating care for patients in the community and to ensure that services are based on effective and integrated partnerships across the health community.
• Supervise and train junior medical staff.
• To be involved in appraising and assessing juniors.
• Teaching, research and administration.
• To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

(Example only)

• Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
• To share with colleagues’ responsibility for the day-to-day management of patients.
• To promote new ways of working and co-ordinating care for patients in the community and to ensure that services are based on effective and integrated partnerships across the health community.
• Take part in multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Supervise and train junior medical staff
• To be involved in appraising and assessing juniors.
• Teaching, research and administration.
• To proactively develop the service.
• To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.

Further details in the Job Description