We are thrilled to be able to advertise for a locum consultant to support our ambitions within the respiratory department at SWFT.

The successful candidate will support a 7 day inpatient service, as well as a varied outpatient program and contributing towards other services such as bronchoscopy, EBUS, pleural services.

The consultant body also supports medical education, with students from both Warwick and Buckingham medical schools.

Main duties of the job

The unit is currently led by five chest physicians. These consultants have special interests in lung cancer, tuberculosis, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma.

The wider MDT includes close collaboration with the thoracic surgery and oncology departments at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW), and other team members at SWFT including consultant radiologists, microbiologists and pathologists.

Depending on disease site and expertise, the team also liaise with colleagues across the Midlands.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Job description
Job responsibilities

THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF THE POST WILL BE:

1) To support the inpatient service in Respiratory Medicine at Warwick Hospitala. The Consultant will have 10 sessions per week to support the Respiratory Physician of the Week and the Respiratory Registrars to manage all the Inpatient workload including referrals and procedures working approx. 1 in 4 weeks.b. The Consultant will be required to undertake Weekend and Bank Holiday ward support for the Respiratory Service on a 1 in 4 basis which equates to 14 weekends approximately. We have a 7-day respiratory service for 365 days a year.

2) Outpatient workloada. The Consultant will have scheduled bronchoscopy sessions on a rota basis, approximately 1 in 4 weeks. In addition, there will be occasional emergency bronchoscopy sessions, and EBUS sessions once this service commences.b. Outpatient clinics will be scheduled throughout the week

Person Specification
Professional Experience
Essential

• Expressed interest in undergraduate and postgraduate education.
• Extensive experience of management of pleural disease.

Desirable

• GIM Accreditation

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