Specialty Doctor in Allergy

Job description

Job responsibilities

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is the largest hospital in the Southwest peninsula and a major trauma centre, providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare.

Our geography gives us a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services. The population is characterised by its diversity the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy. Population ageing is a recognised national trend, but is exacerbated locally by the drift of younger people out of the area and older people in. The proportion of our population aged 85 or over is growing ahead of the national average by approximately 10 years and we have developed a Population Health Strategy in response to this demographic shift.

We work within a network of other hospitals to offer a range of specialist services:

Allergy

Immunology

Kidney transplant

Pancreatic cancer surgery

Neurosurgery

Cardiothoracic surgery

Bone marrow transplant

Upper Gastro-intestinal surgery

Hepatobiliary surgery

Neonatal intensive care and high-risk obstetrics

Plastic surgery

Liver transplant evaluation

Stereotactic radiosurgery

Specialty Doctor in Allergy

Outline of the post

This post for a Specialty Doctor in Allergy to be employed by University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and based at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. The successful candidate must hold full registration (and a licence to practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC). The successful candidate will have some experience working in general medicine. This is a part-time (5 hours/week), post fixed term for 2 years.

The Trust University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is one of the largest providers of acute care in the country and is the major tertiary centre for the Southwest Peninsula. The Trust has an annual budget of £400 million and directly employs over 9,000 staff and accommodates over 800 inpatient beds. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is one of the NHS partners of the University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School Peninsula Immunology and Allergy Service The Peninsula Immunology and Allergy service falls under the Oncology, Haematology & Immunology Service Line Cluster (Medical directorate)

The service provides clinical immunology and allergy services for patient from across all of Devon and Cornwall. This is a new post to support the clinical team to provide the outpatient and day case allergy services. This is a rapidly developing service with 5 consultant immunologists and one specialist doctor. There are two Allergy, Clinical and Laboratory Immunology registrar training posts, and another trust specialty doctor.

The multidisciplinary team also include a nurse consultant, immunology and allergy specialist nurses, an immunology research nurse, a dietician, a physician associate, a psychologist (post unfilled) and a data manager. The Allergy and Immunology services are both accredited by the RCP accreditation programmes (IQAS for Allergy and QPIDS for Immunodeficiency) and are nationally commissioned specialised services.

The Immunology and Allergy team has a commitment to a significant part of the clinical undergraduate teaching programme. The post holder will be expected to participate in undergraduate teaching activities. The team is proud of the success in recruitment to clinical trials relating to allergy, immunology, urticaria and angioedema and vaccine research as well as recent development of investigator led research projects.

The post holder will have the opportunity to become involved in research, quality improvement, and audit. The clinical team manage their day case, outpatient workload, and occasional inpatient work with support from the administrative and operational teams

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

Desirable

• MRCP desirable

Registration

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with License to practice
• or Equivalent Registration from a medical Council eligible to register with GMC after successful application.

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

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UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Address

Eden Unit, Derriford Hospital

Plymouth

PL6 8DH

Employer's website

https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)