Consultant in Respiratory Medicine

Job responsibilities

• To provide a clinical service in respiratory medicine as part of a team of respiratory specialists.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities with the objective of ensuring a high standard of patient care. There are several options to develop a subspecialty interest in this role, and the job plan can be flexible to accommodate that. Opportunities include: cancer, COPD and integrated care, complex infection and TB, and sleep medicine. There is also the potential to participate in the delivery of the regional EBUS service
• To contribute to service developments
• To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. Depending on the skills of the candidate, this could involve managing the respiratory clinicalplacements and other medical student clinical experience as well as the teaching program for the respiratory doctors
• To contribute to the management of the service
• Full consideration will be given to applicants who wish to apply for a less than full time post and we welcome enquires regarding that.

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCP or Equivalent.
• Full registration with GMC.
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory and General Medicine via: a) CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) b) CESR or c) European Community Rights.

Desirable

• An appropriate higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent).
• Ability to bronchoscope independently and be able to supervise specialist trainees.
• Advanced Life Support Certificate.
• Post graduate teaching qualifications.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of Clinical Governance activities in the last year.
• Demonstrable experience in teaching.
• Evidence of an understanding of how one may set up a new service - business plans, service development.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary integrated respiratory team.
• Teaching skills course/qualification.
• Demonstrable experience in research with an appropriate publication record.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to take on independent clinical responsibility whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership capabilities within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively with GPs and other professionals in hospital and community.
• Evidence of experience in day to day organisation of General Medical and Respiratory services in a hospital setting.
• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit, must have undertaken and completed audit projects recently.
• Familiarity with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.

Desirable

• Evidence of training to be an educational supervisor.
• Ability to develop research projects and supervise trainees in their research.

Personal Disposition

Essential

• Caring attitude to patients.
• Flexible and co-operative approach to colleagues and team members.
• Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing medical education
• Commitment to uphold St George's values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).