Job summary
Employer heading
Consultant in Respiratory Medicine RHCH - Winchester
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
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Job overview
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.
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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.
Working for our organisation
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 aÌý
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) andÌý
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, withÌý
excellent transport links to London and the south coast.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Distinctions, Scholarships prizes, other degrees eg BSc MSc, MS
- Higher degree (MD/PhD) or working towards
Clinical Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Broad experience of general Respiratory Medicine
- Recent experience of managing general medical patients
Desirable criteria
- Medical Thoracoscopy experience
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing experience – supervising and interpretation.
- Sleep experience
Clinical Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit as well as QUIP
Desirable criteria
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test interpretation and experience.
Research & Teaching skills
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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
- Awareness 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.
Desirable criteria
- Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
- Clearly formulated career goals
- Outside interests
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Nick Williams
- Job title
- Consultant and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07957918004
- Additional information
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