Job summary
CONSULTANT IN PAEDIATRIC RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
Applications are invited for the above post in the Department of Paediatrics at the Oxford Children's Hospital, Level 2, Oxford OX3 9DU.
This is vacancy has arisen due to a current consultant leaving. The post holder will join as one of 3 specialist paediatric respiratory consultants working within a multidisciplinary team that also includes 5 specialist nurses, 3 physiotherapists, 2 dieticians, a psychologist, a respiratory physiologist and other support staff. We are a dynamic and committed team who together provide a comprehensive paediatric respiratory service for Oxfordshire, the Thames Valley and Northamptonshire.
The majority of the postholder's time will be spent at the Children's Hospital in Oxford. One consultant also delivers a regular clinic at the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
In the interest of equal opportunities, we want to make sure that information about candidates is provided in the same format so all applicants should fill in the standard application form on the NHS Jobs website.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
The postholder will provide, with a multi-disciplinary team including 3 consultant colleagues, a comprehensive paediatric respiratory service for children in the Thames Valley and Northamptonshire (approximate population 2 million). The services offered include:
- regional cystic fibrosis centre
- respiratory sleep service
- non-invasive respiratory support service (CPAP and BiPAP)
- long term ventilation via tracheostomy
- care of children with tracheostomies
- management of empyema and other respiratory infections
- management of asthma
- management of chronic lung disease
- investigation of respiratory problems
- respiratory support to the ITU, cleft service, craniofacial service, neuromuscular service, ENT service, oncology service, cardiology service.
Outreach cystic fibrosis clinics are provided at 5 network clinics. There is a quarterly joint cleft palate clinic and a quarterly transitional clinic with the Oxford adult cystic fibrosis service.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more herewww.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - theJohn Radcliffe Hospital,Churchill HospitalandNuffield Orthopaedic Centrein Headington and theHorton General Hospitalin Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel
Job description
Job responsibilities
Paediatric respiratory medicine in Oxford
The paediatric respiratory service provides secondary level care for the local population of Oxfordshire and tertiary care to Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley and parts of Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire. The post-holder will be expected to take responsibility for children with all types of respiratory problems.
We accept acute inpatient referrals from the Thames valley and beyond for children with acute and chronic respiratory disease. The Oxford paediatric cystic fibrosis network cares for 178 children with cystic fibrosis; 66 of these children are full care patients in Oxford, and the remainder are shared care with local clinics in Reading, High Wycombe, Wexham Park, Milton Keynes and Northampton. All children attend Oxford once per year for annual review and are seen in their local clinics on at least one other occasion by the visiting Oxford multidisciplinary team. There are strong links with the Oxford adult CF team and we hold a joint regional meeting once per year.
We carry out over 600 sleep studies each year in children with a wide range of underlying problems including obstructive sleep apnoea, chronic lung disease, apnoea of unknown cause, neuromuscular weakness, and craniofacial and palate disorders. We have strong links with the craniofacial team (Oxford is one of 4 national centres for craniofacial surgery), the ENT service and the neuromuscular team. Currently, we care for 84 children at home on non-invasive respiratory support or support via a tracheostomy, the majority with either chronic lung disease or hypoventilation associated with neuromuscular weakness.
Teaching/Research
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is a teaching hospital Trust, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity.The post-holders contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust forms a Biomedical Research Centre in partnership with the University of Oxford and research activity is encouraged. There is ample opportunity for research collaboration with both the clinical and basic science Oxford University departmentswhere there are particular strengths in Experimental Psychology, Infectious Disease, Molecular Genetics and Epidemiology. There is an active research programme in adult respiratory medicine research.
Clinical Governance
The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.
Personal and Professional Development
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditionsof Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.
Management
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of thelead clinician and/or directorate chair.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Paediatric respiratory medicine in Oxford
The paediatric respiratory service provides secondary level care for the local population of Oxfordshire and tertiary care to Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley and parts of Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire. The post-holder will be expected to take responsibility for children with all types of respiratory problems.
We accept acute inpatient referrals from the Thames valley and beyond for children with acute and chronic respiratory disease. The Oxford paediatric cystic fibrosis network cares for 178 children with cystic fibrosis; 66 of these children are full care patients in Oxford, and the remainder are shared care with local clinics in Reading, High Wycombe, Wexham Park, Milton Keynes and Northampton. All children attend Oxford once per year for annual review and are seen in their local clinics on at least one other occasion by the visiting Oxford multidisciplinary team. There are strong links with the Oxford adult CF team and we hold a joint regional meeting once per year.
We carry out over 600 sleep studies each year in children with a wide range of underlying problems including obstructive sleep apnoea, chronic lung disease, apnoea of unknown cause, neuromuscular weakness, and craniofacial and palate disorders. We have strong links with the craniofacial team (Oxford is one of 4 national centres for craniofacial surgery), the ENT service and the neuromuscular team. Currently, we care for 84 children at home on non-invasive respiratory support or support via a tracheostomy, the majority with either chronic lung disease or hypoventilation associated with neuromuscular weakness.
Teaching/Research
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is a teaching hospital Trust, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity.The post-holders contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust forms a Biomedical Research Centre in partnership with the University of Oxford and research activity is encouraged. There is ample opportunity for research collaboration with both the clinical and basic science Oxford University departmentswhere there are particular strengths in Experimental Psychology, Infectious Disease, Molecular Genetics and Epidemiology. There is an active research programme in adult respiratory medicine research.
Clinical Governance
The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.
Personal and Professional Development
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditionsof Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.
Management
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of thelead clinician and/or directorate chair.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- GMC
- MBBCh or equivalent MRCPCH or equivalent.
- CCT in paediatrics and paediatric respiratory medicine or equivalent OR CESR OR within 6 months of achieving CCT at the time of interview
- Current APLS certification
- Level 3 safeguarding training for children
Desirable
- Higher Medical Degree e.g. PhD or MD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree.
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive training in Paediatrics and all aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine, including ability to carry out bronchoscopy and experience of managing children on long term ventilation.
- Ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable
- Experience in interpreting respiratory polygraphy
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of a consultant in a large teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills
- Ability to work within and lead a multi disciplinary team.
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
- Experience of clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Participation in clinical research
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Education qualification
- Presentations at national and international meetings and publication of research in peer-reviewed journals. Research grants
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- GMC
- MBBCh or equivalent MRCPCH or equivalent.
- CCT in paediatrics and paediatric respiratory medicine or equivalent OR CESR OR within 6 months of achieving CCT at the time of interview
- Current APLS certification
- Level 3 safeguarding training for children
Desirable
- Higher Medical Degree e.g. PhD or MD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree.
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive training in Paediatrics and all aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine, including ability to carry out bronchoscopy and experience of managing children on long term ventilation.
- Ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable
- Experience in interpreting respiratory polygraphy
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of a consultant in a large teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills
- Ability to work within and lead a multi disciplinary team.
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
- Experience of clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Participation in clinical research
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Education qualification
- Presentations at national and international meetings and publication of research in peer-reviewed journals. Research grants
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).
