Consultant Respiratory Physician with an interest in lung cancer
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Job Location:
Portsmouth - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
This role is pending Royal College approval
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic forward-thinking Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine.
The post offers an exciting opportunity for either a recently trained or established Respiratory Consultant with expertise or experience in lung cancer and pleural disease to join our busy and visionary department within a newly appointed University Hospital.
The successful applicant will join five other Respiratory Consultants working within the lung cancer services. Pleural clinics are run by 2 Consultants and supported by a Pleural Specialist Nurse. Ultrasound is available in clinic where on-the-spot diagnostic aspirations are performed.
Job Summary
Portsmouth is a training centre for medical thoracoscopy with over 25 years experience and Video-thoracoscopy is performed by the respiratory physicians. There is also an IPC ambulatory chest drain service (for which we run nationally available training courses) and have recently started undertaking pleural biopsies. 3 dedicated ultrasound machines are used to facilitate all pleural procedures and to support diagnosis on the wards and in clinic in addition to endobronchial ultrasound.
The successful applicant would also be expected to undertake inpatient work covering the three respiratory wards and respiratory high care unit along with undertaking reviews of respiratory patients on the admissions unit. Job plans will be negotiated with the successful applicant but the expectation is that ward cover will be provided for 14 weeks of the year with additional sessions reviewing respiratory patients on the admissions unit.
They would also be expected to participate on the respiratory and general medical on call rotas which is currently 1:19. There is currently no commitment to the acute medical take but this is a possibility moving forward. The successful applicant would undertake a range of duties including advice and guidance to both the community and the hospital along with delivering two outpatient clinics per week. The successful applicant would be involved in delivering respiratory procedures such as bronchoscopy and pleural procedures in their off-ward time. Each respiratory consultant provides weekend cover for 4 weekends per year plus an additional day for bank holiday cover.
Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust has many trainees and the successful applicant would be expected to undertake supervision and education for members of the wider multidisciplinary team. This would be included in the time for supporting professional activities (SPA) for which there will be 2 session per week with 8 sessions delivering clinical care.
Qualifications :
Essential
- Full GMC registration with license to practice at time of interview
- MRCP or equivalent
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for respiratory and general medicine
- Register for Respiratory and G(I)M via:
- CCT (expected CCT date must be within 6 months of interview)
- CESR or European Community Rights
Desirable
- Higher degree or diploma in relevant clinical research educational or managerial subject
- Prizes and honours
- ALS training - current
- Completed Educational Supervisor training
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Leading G(I)M acute take
- Acute respiratory work
- Respiratory High Care Unit work
- Chest Clinic work
Desirable
- Expertise in a sub-specialty area of respiratory medicine (particularly lung cancer and pleural)
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Bronchoscopy chest drain and pleural aspiration skills to competency
- Respiratory physiology - clinical experience
- Understanding of clinical risk management
Desirable
- Prior experience of lung cancer
- Experience of thoracic ultrasound level 1 or 2 certification
- Ability to undertake IPC insertion thoracoscopy and ultrasound guided biopsies
- Ability to undertake endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy
Knowledge
- Able to demonstrate appropriate level of clinical knowledge
- Knowledge and use of evidence-based practice
- IT skills
- Effective confident presentation ability
- Experience in and outside speciality
- Record of organisation experience e.g. rotas specialist meetings undergraduate or postgraduate examinations
Additional Information :
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Post Residency Experience
- Occupational Health Experience
- Pain Management
- SOAP
- Primary Care Experience
- Medical Management
- Suturing
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Pharmacy Residency
- Botox Experience
- Epic
About Company
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospita ... View more
