Consultant in Respiratory Medicine RHCH - Winchester
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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 a comprehensive 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) and community 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, with excellent transport links to London and the south coast.
Job responsibilities For further information about this role please see the Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person Specification Professional Qualifications
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
Distinctions, Scholarships prizes, other degrees eg BSc MSc, MS
Higher degree (MD/PhD) or working towards
Clinical Experience & Knowledge
Broad experience of general Respiratory Medicine
Recent experience of managing general medical patients
Medical Thoracoscopy experience
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing experience - supervising and interpretation.
Clinical Skills & Ability
Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit as well as QUIP
Cardiopulmonary exercise test interpretation and experience.
Research & Teaching skills
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
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
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
Aware 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.
Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
Clearly formulated career goals
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.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata
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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 a comprehensive 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) and community 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, with excellent transport links to London and the south coast.
Job responsibilities For further information about this role please see the Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person Specification Professional Qualifications
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
Distinctions, Scholarships prizes, other degrees eg BSc MSc, MS
Higher degree (MD/PhD) or working towards
Clinical Experience & Knowledge
Broad experience of general Respiratory Medicine
Recent experience of managing general medical patients
Medical Thoracoscopy experience
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing experience - supervising and interpretation.
Clinical Skills & Ability
Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit as well as QUIP
Cardiopulmonary exercise test interpretation and experience.
Research & Teaching skills
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
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
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
Aware 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.
Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
Clearly formulated career goals
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.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata
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