Respiratory Consultant

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly motivated, friendly and dynamic respiratory team who are dedicated to delivering patient-centred, high-quality care to meet the needs of our population.

We are looking to recruit to two, substantive general respiratory consultants posts based at North Bristol NHS Trust. The jobs will comprise a mix of inpatient care, respiratory in-reach and outpatient clinics (including admission avoidance clinic).  There is flexibility to allow successful applicants to develop the service according to their skills and experience and participate in quality improvement and teaching.

We are looking for consultant physicians with experience of working in respiratory medicine, who can deliver excellent care to our patients and work with us to further develop our service to meet the needs of our population.

This role is pending Royal College approval.

Main duties of the job

These appointments will support the general respiratory and specialist work of the department.  The job plans will include contributions to respiratory and general medicine ward work, 2 outpatient clinics per week and will contribute to our general respiratory consultant rota, including seeing in-reach referrals, covering our admission avoidance ‘hot’ clinic and weekend cover of our respiratory bed-base.

The postholders will have commitments within the base Acute trust (North Bristol NHS Trust) and will undertake one clinic per week in a satellite unit (Cossham or Thornbury).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed job description and main responsibilities please see attached job description and person specification document.  The main duties will include:

• Being a fully integrated member of the Respiratory team

• Undertaking outpatient clinics (both at the Brunel Building site and either Cossham or Thornbury)

• Ward inpatient care of respiratory and general medicine patients

• Respiratory in-reach work through referrals from other teams within NBT

• Undertake respiratory admission avoidance clinics.

• Support education and training of resident doctors and allied health care professionals, including educational and clinical supervision.

• Actively participate in audit, quality improvement and research relevant to the work of the respiratory department.

Person specification, essential Criteria:

• Full registration with the GMC.

• Must have CCT in Respiratory and General Medicine and have been entered on the GMC Specialist Register at the time of the appointment (specialist registrars that do not hold a CCT must be due to be awarded one within 6 months of the interview date.)  CESR applicants are welcome and must have their CESR in place at the time of interview.

• MRCP (or equivalent) required.

• Minimum of 8 years postgraduate experience including higher surgical/medical training, three years as a Senior Registrar in an approved training post, or equivalent.

• Recent experience and familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices (or equivalent).

• Experience in audit project and write up

• Strong leadership experience and values

• Knowledge of contemporary NHS management issues and political context within which we operate.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Must hold the appropriate home office work / residence status to provide work in the UK.