Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Respiratory
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (0)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (0)
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-6509508-S1-A
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 0
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST
LOCUM CONSULTANT IN PAEDIATRIC RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
Applications are invited for the above post in the Department of Paediatrics at the Oxford Children’s Hospital, Level 2, Oxford OX3 9DU.
This is a 12-month locum post for maternity cover. The postholder will join as one of 3 specialist paediatric respiratory consultants working within a multidisciplinary team that also includes 5 specialist nurses, 2 physiotherapists, 2 dieticians, a psychologist, a respiratory physiologist and other support staff. We are a dynamic and committed team who together provide a comprehensive paediatric respiratory service for Oxfordshire, the Thames Valley and Northamptonshire. The majority of the postholder’s time will be spent at the Children’s Hospital in Oxford. One consultant also delivers a regular clinic at the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
There will be a focus for the post holder on work related to the paediatric respiratory sleep service.
Main duties of the job
The postholder’s duties will be primarily at Oxford Children’s Hospital, but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations such as the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Clinical
The postholder will provide, within a multi-disciplinary team including 3 consultant colleagues, a comprehensive paediatric resipiratory service for children in the Thames Valley and Northamptonshire (approximate population 2 million). The services offered include:
- regional cystic fibrosis centre
- respiratory sleep service
- non-invasive respiratory support service (CPAP and BiPAP)
- long term ventilation via tracheostomy
- care of children with tracheostomies
- management of empyema and other respiratory infections
- management of asthma
- management of chronic lung disease
- investigation of respiratory problems
- respiratory support to the ITU, cleft service, craniofacial service, neuromuscular service, ENT service, oncology service, cardiology service.
Outreach cystic fibrosis clinics are provided 3-monthly at 5 network clinics. There are 3 CF Transition clinics per year run jointly with the Adult CF Teams in Oxford and Frimley Park Hospital. There are biannual PCD clinics run jointly with the Southampton Quaternary PCD service.
The postholder will undertake clinic work and inpatient work, as well as taking an equal share in a 1 in 3 on call service for paediatric respiratory medicine.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Outline Job Plan Weekly provisional Programmed Activities
An indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined below. The final Job Plan for the post will be agreed with the clinical director upon appointment and reviewed after 6 months.
|
Day |
Time |
Location |
Work |
Categorisation |
No. of PAs |
|
Monday |
0900-1300 |
OUH |
Respiratory Clinic |
Direct Care |
1 |
|
1300-1500 |
OUH |
CF annual reviews, Bronchoscopy list alternate weeks |
Direct Care |
0.5 |
|
|
1500-1700 |
OUH |
CPD, Statutory and Mandatory Training, Job planning, Appraisal |
Supporting |
0.5 |
|
|
Tuesday |
0900-1300 |
OUH |
Sleep study patient reviews and ward round |
Direct Care |
1 |
|
1300-1700 |
OUH |
Weeks 1,3 and 5: Respiratory clinic Weeks 2 and 4: Clinical admin |
Direct Care |
1 |
|
|
Wednesday |
0900-1000 |
OUH |
Sleep study patient reviews |
Direct Care |
0.25 |
|
1000-1200 |
OUH |
Flexible activity (see below) |
Direct Care |
Included below |
|
|
1200-1300 |
OUH |
Ad hoc patient MDTs and scheduled inter-specialty meetings with ENT, infectious diseases team |
Direct Care |
0.25 |
|
|
1400-1500 |
OUH |
Radiology meeting |
Direct Care |
0.25 |
|
|
1500-1600 |
OUH |
CF MDT |
Direct Care |
0.25 |
|
|
1600-1700 |
OUH |
Clinical Meeting |
Supporting |
0.25 |
|
|
Thursday |
0900-1200 |
OUH |
Clinical admin, report writing, care planning |
Direct Care |
0.75 |
|
1200-1500 |
OUH |
Clinical governance activity, audit, CPD, Statutory and Mandatory Training |
Supporting |
0.75 |
|
|
1500-1700 |
OUH |
Sleep MDT meeting and report writing |
Direct Care |
0.5 |
|
|
Friday |
0900-1300 |
OUH |
Sleep study patient reviews and ward round |
Direct Care |
1 |
|
1300-1700 |
OUH |
Weeks 2 and 4: Respiratory clinic Plus 2x per year joint Southampton/Oxford PCD clinic held at Horton General Hospital Weeks 1, 3 and 5: Clinical admin |
Direct Care |
1 |
|
|
Saturday |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Sunday |
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional agreed activity to be worked flexibly |
2 hours |
OUH |
To see acute admissions, referrals and review ward patients in hours |
Direct care |
0.5 |
|
Predictable emergency on-call work |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unpredictable emergency on-call work |
Variable |
OUH |
On-call from home, telephone advice, attending when necessary out-of hours |
Direct care |
0.25 |
|
TOTAL PAs |
|
10 |
|||
|
Programmed Activity |
No of PAs |
|
Direct clinical care (including unpredictable on-call) |
8.5 |
|
Supporting professional activities |
1.5 |
|
Other NHS responsibilities |
|
|
External duties |
|
|
Total No of PAs |
10 |
|
Anticipated on-call availability supplement |
|
|
Agreed on-call rota (e.g. 1 in 5) |
1 in 3 |
|
Agreed category (delete) |
|
|
On-call supplement % |
3% |
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MBBCh or equivalent
- MRCPCH or equivalent.
- CCT in paediatrics and paediatric respiratory medicine or equivalent OR CESR OR within 6 months of achieving CCT at the time of interview;
- Current APLS certification
- Level 3 safeguarding training for children
Desirable criteria
- Higher Medical Degree e.g. PhD or MD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive training in Paediatrics and all aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine, including ability to carry out bronchoscopy and experience of managing children on long-term ventilation.
- Ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
Desirable criteria
- Experience in interpreting respiratory polygraphy
Skills
Essential criteria
- Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of a consultant in a large teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills.
- Ability to work within and lead a multi-disciplinary team.
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
- Experience of clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Participation in clinical research
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification.
- Education qualification
- Presentations at national and international meetings and publication of research in peer-reviewed journals. Research grants
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sarah-Jane Bowen
- Job title
- Paediatric Respiratory Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 234194
- Additional information
For further information please contact , Dr Sarah-Jane Bowen @[email protected]
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