Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated Respiratory team at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital. This is a full time, substantive respiratory consultant post with additional general internal medicine on-call responsibility. The appointed candidate will be expected to work cohesively alongside the existing Consultant team, supporting the severe asthma service and work alongside the established sleep disordered breathing team. We would therefore, be particularly keen to welcome applications from those candidates with a defined sub-specialty interest in severe asthma and those willing to develop sub-specialty expertise in sleep medicine.
Main duties of the job
The job role will comprise a mixture of inpatient care and day case procedure lists on the Winchester site with outpatient clinics undertaken from the Winchester and Andover sites. Successful applicants will work alongside the current severe asthma team to expand existing services and optimize care delivery for asthma patients.
This is an exciting time to join our department as we further develop our ambitions for 7-day respiratory Consultant cover, high-care services and ambulatory working models.
About us
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the major provider of hospital services to the population of North and mid Hampshire and surrounding areas. The hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester provide acomprehensive range of acute services as well as being a tertiary referral centre for colorectal, liver, peritoneal carcinomatosis, haemophilia and pseudomyxoma surgery.
The Trust covers a population of 600,000 incorporating Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospitals (BNHH), Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) in Winchester, Andover War Memorial Hospital (AWMH) andcommunity hospitals. We provide one hospital service across multiple localities, delivering services as close as possible to the patient. BNHH and RHCH are 23 miles apart, situated in the middle of the M3 corridor, withexcellent transport links to London and the south coast.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
AAC TBC - proposed date
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
AAC TBC - proposed date
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS/MRCP or equivalent
- Licence to practice and full registration with GMC
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register in RM and GIM via CCT/ CESR or within 6 months of completion of CCT at time of interview
Desirable
- Distinctions, Scholarships prizes, other degrees eg BSc MSc, MS
- Higher degree (MD/PhD) or working towards
Clinical Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Broad experience of general Respiratory Medicine
- Recent experience of managing general medical patients
Desirable
- Medical Thoracoscopy experience
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing experience - supervising and interpretation.
- Sleep experience
Clinical Skills & Ability
Essential
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit as well as QUIP
Desirable
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test interpretation and experience.
Research & Teaching skills
Essential
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature.
- Commitment to teaching of both undergraduates and postgraduates and evidence of active participation in teaching and education
Desirable
- Evidence of personal research
- Projects and their presentation.
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- MD/PhD
- Attendance at specialist programmes to improve teaching/educational skills.
- Expertise in teaching.
Other Specific Requirements
Essential
- A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives
- To have undertaken a postgraduate course on communication skills (or ensure that you have undertaken one within one year of appointment)
- Ability to establish good professional relations
- Punctuality, reliability
- Understands the NHS system nationally, regionally and locally
- Understands the concepts and principals of clinical governance
- Awareness of current service development issues
- Able to work across Trust sites dependent on the needs of the service with a full current driver's license.
Desirable
- Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
- Clearly formulated career goals
- Outside interests
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS/MRCP or equivalent
- Licence to practice and full registration with GMC
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register in RM and GIM via CCT/ CESR or within 6 months of completion of CCT at time of interview
Desirable
- Distinctions, Scholarships prizes, other degrees eg BSc MSc, MS
- Higher degree (MD/PhD) or working towards
Clinical Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Broad experience of general Respiratory Medicine
- Recent experience of managing general medical patients
Desirable
- Medical Thoracoscopy experience
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing experience - supervising and interpretation.
- Sleep experience
Clinical Skills & Ability
Essential
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit as well as QUIP
Desirable
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test interpretation and experience.
Research & Teaching skills
Essential
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature.
- Commitment to teaching of both undergraduates and postgraduates and evidence of active participation in teaching and education
Desirable
- Evidence of personal research
- Projects and their presentation.
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- MD/PhD
- Attendance at specialist programmes to improve teaching/educational skills.
- Expertise in teaching.
Other Specific Requirements
Essential
- A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives
- To have undertaken a postgraduate course on communication skills (or ensure that you have undertaken one within one year of appointment)
- Ability to establish good professional relations
- Punctuality, reliability
- Understands the NHS system nationally, regionally and locally
- Understands the concepts and principals of clinical governance
- Awareness of current service development issues
- Able to work across Trust sites dependent on the needs of the service with a full current driver's license.
Desirable
- Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
- Clearly formulated career goals
- Outside interests
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
