Job summary
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This is a locum post (10PA) to support the NUTH lung transplant, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory service.

This post is to commence as soon as possible for 6 months.

The primary objective of this post is to support the Lung Transplant service with patient assessments, post-operative care and long term follow up. There will also be opportunity to support Pulmonary Hypertension service inpatient assessments and outpatient clinics. It is recognised that applicants may not have experience in both areas, and the Pulmonary Hypertension aspect of the post is flexible and training can be provided as needed.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job
To support lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory services.

Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine and Cardiothoracic Transplantation.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Katy Hester, Head of Respiratory Department, 0191 233 6161 Ext 39079 or katy.hester@nhs.net or Dr Gerry Meachery, 0191 21 39422, via email g.meachery@nhs.net, or Dr Jim Lordan, via email j.lordan@nhs.net or 0191 24 48608.

Clinical
This post will support the lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory service including the following clinical activity:

• Inpatient and outpatient lung transplant assessments and post transplant care.
• Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung transplant MDT and lung transplant physician of the week rota.
• Contribution to the bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy service.
• Pulmonary hypertension outpatients; inpatient assessment including pulmonary hypertension physician of the week rota (no out of hours work) and MDT.
• Support the adult respiratory service with inpatient and outpatient work.
• Participate in on call rotas for Lung Transplant and General Respiratory out of hours.

The appointee will have an equitable share in the attachment of junior medical staff and secretarial support.

Administrative
The appointee will be expected to organise and ensure probity of their clinical practice and that of their supporting team so as to provide coordinated, quality care to patients in line with wider departmental objectives. This would include, for example, providing timely responses to clinical and related correspondence, appropriate management of waiting lists, supervision and assessment of trainees.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information on the Admin section.

Audit and CPD
The Trust supports requirements for continuing professional development as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing support for these activities.

Research
The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis is that studies should fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio. The Respiratory Department at Freeman Hospital has a strong base in clinical and applied molecular biological research with dedicated facilities on site in the William Leech Centre at Freeman Hospital and laboratory facilities at the Medical School on the University Campus.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information on Research.

Teaching
As with all other colleagues, the appointee will be expected to contribute to teaching activity when required as part of their appointment. The hospital is also a designated teaching centre for undergraduate medical students from Newcastle University. The appointee will be expected to attend and contribute at departmental meetings, administrative, audit, governance and academic teaching.

Flexibility
In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC Registration
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).

Desirable

• Higher Degree

Clinical Experience
Essential

• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
• Evidence of experience and competence in bronchoscopy
• Experience in Lung Transplantation
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.

Desirable

• Experience in Pulmonary Hypertension

Management and Administration Experience
Essential

• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance

Desirable

• Ability to run a respiratory service and participate in management process
• Involvement with unit management and project leadership
• Proven management and administration ability and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership and project management
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
• Ability to review clinical guidelines

Teaching
Essential

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in medical education
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
• Ability to teach clinical, technical and practical skills

Research
Essential

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Higher degree. Research/critical review of literature.
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit
Essential

• Evidence of participation in audit.

Desirable

• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

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. 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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

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