Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine
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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland .
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Key details
Location
SiteNorth Tyneside General HospitalTownNorth ShieldsPostcodeNE29 8NHMajor / Minor RegionTyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
ContractPermanentHours10 sessions per week (On Call)
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
Salary
Salary£105,504 - £139,882 per annumSalary periodYearlyGrade(Consultant)
Specialty
Main areaRespiratory Medicine
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isnt, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this isthe Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the countrys top performing NHS trusts rated outstanding overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and peoples homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect peoples lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job Overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint Consultant Physicians in Respiratory Medicine - applications are welcomed from candidates interested in a part time or full time role.
The posts will be trustwide with outpatient clinics across trust sites and rotation to provide consultant cover to the two acute respiratory wards at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).
The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop sub-specialist interests to complement the other members of the department and any sub-specialist interest can be considered. Sub-speciality clinics in cough, lung cancer, pleural disease, bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, asthma and sleep medicine are currently provided within the Respiratory Department. The new post will be encouraged to either support current services or develop new sub-specialty interests, service development of services and pathways is welcomed and encouraged.
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The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service grows and develops.
A typical week would consist of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs), including an allocation of 1.5 for Supported Professional Activities. Additional SPAs will be available dependant upon service need.
Please see Job Description for full main duties of role.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isnt, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
You will join a trustwide team of 14 Consultant Respiratory Physicians, 3 Specialist Trainees, 5 Respiratory Fellows alongside a large Team of Lung Cancer Nurse Specialists, Respiratory Specialist Nurses, Oxygen Nurses and Respiratory Physiologists working trustwide. We also have a large team of Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapists and Speech and & Language Therapists, alongside a Senior Respiratory Pharmacist.
The respiratory wards are currently supported by F1, F2, IMT Doctors in Training and SpR/ST/Respiratory Fellow Trainees. Trainee Advanced Care Practitioners also rotate through both Respiratory Wards.
The team provides specialist inpatient respiratory care on two 30 bedded wards at NSECH incorporating an 11 bedded respiratory support unit with a respiratory physician on site from 8am to 8pm 7 days a week and a respiratory on call service. Inpatient ward cover to a base site ward is shared with other General Medicine colleagues at Wansbeck General Hospital. You will share inpatient responsibilities on the ward with existing consultant colleagues. There will be office accommodation and secretarial support provided.
There are lung function laboratories at both Wansbeck General Hospital (WGH) and North Tyneside General Hospital (NTGH) sites and a service supporting outlying clinics. The respiratory department has established a Thoracoscopy service based at NTGH and an EBUS service at WGH. This is an opportunity to join an organisation in which clinicians are at the forefront of management. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to assisting all employees to achieve a work-life balance, regardless of their personal circumstances. Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time, will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with consultant colleagues.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the applicant guidance notes before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
* MRCP
* Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register for Respiratory and General Internal Medicine. Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview.
* Full accreditation with the appropriate Royal College.
* Full GMC Registration.
Desirable criteria
* Educational Qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Clinical training and experience in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT).
* Clinical Governance
* Experience of, and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
* Experience of, and commitment to medical audit.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of administration and management
* Teaching of non-medical health professionals
Documents
* Resp Medicine Consultant Pack 2025 (, 229.4)PDFKB
* Northumbria Privacy Policy (, 520.6)PDFKB
* Northumbria Candidate Pack (, 624.3)PDFKB
Further details / informal visits contact
NameDr Nicola GreenJob titleHead of Service / Respiratory ConsultantEmail address [email protected]Additional information
Dr Mark Weatherhead
Deputy Head of Service / Respiratory Consultant
[email protected]
Richard Sterry
Head of Performance and General Manager for Respiratory Medicine
[email protected]
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Job function
Health Care Provider
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