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Job overview

East Cheshire NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, with a specialist interest in pleural disease and virtual ward.

The consultants in respiratory medicine are based on the Respiratory ward (11) which comprises 24 beds, including 8 single rooms and 2 negative pressure rooms.

During the last three years the Trust has undergone a programme of change to strengthen its senior clinical leadership and management. As part of this restructuring, the consultants in Respiratory Medicine have taken on senior leadership and educational roles. Dr M Babores is the Deputy Medical Director (Acute and Integrated Community Care Services) and Dr Gallagher the Faster Diagnostic Cancer Lead for medicine.

Hours per week: 10 PAs

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to the management of all the patients in the Respiratory Ward and help provide a respiratory in reach service. It will be expected that the post holder will be heavily involved in the management of inpatients with at least twice weekly ward rounds and further visits to the ward during the week to facilitate discharges and help with management of acutely unwell patients.

They will undertake a weekly procedures list, including bronchoscopy and EBUS and help with pleural procedures such as Medical Thoracoscopy.

They will attend weekly video-conference lung cancer MDT with South Manchester University Teaching Hospital and local radiology meeting fortnightly. The appointee will have an important role in the training of junior medical staff in the assessment and management of the acutely ill medical patients as well contributing to MRCP PACES teaching and postgraduate medical training of foundation year doctors and speciality trainees. 

Working for our organisation

NHS Medical and Dental salaries are set at a national level.  For new starters not already working to UK Medical and Dental terms and conditions of service will be appointed to the minimum paypoint.  The starting salary paypoint can only be increased when there is evidence of relevant, completed year’s experience in terms of nature, type and level of role.  The evidence required to increase a starting salary would be Payslips and details noted in the application form i.e. complete employment history

Please be aware that this post requires an Enhanced with Barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, the cost of which is payable by the successful candidate.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 6 months or more in the last 5 years you will need to obtain an overseas police clearance. Further information can be found on the additional information links at the bottom of the advert.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters as part of ongoing monitoring.