Specialty Doctor- Respiratory inBarnsley inBarnsley PUBLISHED
WED 30 OCT 2024
The role involves active participation in lung cancer multi-disciplinary teams, coordinating with various stakeholders, and contributing to both postgraduate education and medical audits. The Specialty Doctor will collaborate with clinical leadership and management to ensure high standards of care, patient assessment, and service improvement, particularly in expanding outpatient clinic capacity and responding to increasing patient demands. This position is part of a broader effort to enhance respiratory services within Barnsley, promoting teamwork and innovation within the Trust.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BHNFT) is seeking to appoint an additional Respiratory Consultant to join our Respiratory team. Applicants should have a broad experience in Respiratory Medicine.
BHNFTs ethos is to encourage team working and innovation and it is an exciting time to be working for our progressing Trust. There will also be the opportunity to contribute to development of clinical services and achieving gold standards for Respiratory patients.
The new post holder will be expected to share the existing clinical workload and will be encouraged to develop specialist interest and support current services, working with the multi disciplinary team. We have established Endobronchial Ultrasound EBUS/Miniprobe, EUS, Portable Chest Ultrasound, and we have full physiological lung investigation lab include Full lung function tests, cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPEX), Manitol Inhalation Bronchial challenge test, FeNO and overnight pulse oximetry etc.
The Trust has an active education training programme which you will be encouraged and expected to be involved in as well as MDT meetings, case reviews, network forums, research and development, teaching nurses as well as medical students for example. Also, to be involved in benchmarking ensuring the Trust always strives to be the best.
Please see the attached Job description for the post of Speciality Doctor in the Respiratory Department.
About us
The Respiratory Department has recently successfully expanded its service model across the hospital and community setting of Barnsley which has presented an opportunity to expand its consultant workforce.
This post is required to develop and expand the existing and new respiratory services. We need to be able to proactively support daily consultant ward round in the respiratory ward to assist with rapid assessment and management of inpatients. We also have a designated 8 bed Respiratory Care Unit, which has its own dedicated nursing team and Junior doctor support. In addition, increases in our outpatient clinic capacity are required to meet the increasing activity demands. There are also great opportunities to develop your own subspecialty interests and service improvements.
The main duties and responsibilities of the Speciality Doctor are set out below.
To contribute to the lung cancer multi-disciplinary team and achieving the two week wait for general practitioner referrals;
To liaise with Social Services Departments, General Practitioners and Voluntary organisations as required.
To advise clinical colleagues on matters within his/her sphere of expertise;
To offer advice to medical, nursing, managerial and other staff on appropriate matters;
To carry out medical teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required;
To contribute to postgraduate and continuing medical education activity including Continuing Professional Development and Research;
To contribute if appropriate to the training of nurses, paramedical, scientific and technical staff;
To participate in medical audit on a regular basis including presentations and further development.
To provide information required from time to time for legitimate management purposes;
To contribute to the management process within the Trust through participation in planning, project or liaison groups as appropriate;
To work in conjunction with the Clinical Lead, Deputy Clinical Director and Clinical Director, Associate Director of Operations for Medicine, Associate Director of Nursing for Medicine, Service Manager and Matron whose roles form part of the management arrangements of BHNFT;
To work within the framework of policies and procedures relevant to Medical and Dental staff.
The duties are subject to review from time to time in the light of the changing requirements of the service. The duties will be reflected in a job plan, which will be subject to review with the appointed consultant.
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