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Job overview

Consultant - Respiratory Medicine

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Respiratory department at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with a new substantive consultant post available.  This position will complement the existing team of nine full time NHS consultants, three part time NHS consultants and one nurse consultant. 

We welcome all suitable qualified applicants.  Our department provides expertise in sleep medicine, ventilation, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, lung cancer/pleural medicine, tuberculosis, emphysema, interstitial lung disease (ILD) and difficult asthma. There are weekly multi-disciplinary meetings in lung cancer and ILD. There is a monthly ILD meeting including histopathology and monthly emphysema MDT.

We welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. Part time or job share applications will also be considered.

Main duties of the job

All consultants, including the new appointees, will be expected to be involved in implementing the Trust’s Clinical Governance programme.  This includes active participation in clinical audit, quality, clinical guidelines/pathways, professional development, appraisal and risk management. This will be included in the candidate’s job plan.

The appointee will be a member of the Consultant Staff Committee and be expected to serve on this committee.

The appointees will share office space, band 3 and band 4 admin staff with other consultant colleagues in the Department of Respiratory Medicine and will be mentored by one of the existing Respiratory consultants.

The appointees will share with the other respiratory consultants:

• On call duties
• In-patient duties
• Attendance at appropriate MDT meetings
• Undergraduate and post-graduate medical teaching
• Clinical and educational supervision of junior doctors
• Departmental management duties
• Support of clinical research

All consultants, including the appointee, will be expected to be involved in implementing the Trust’s Clinical Governance programme.  This includes active participation in clinical audit, quality, clinical guidelines/pathways, professional development, appraisal and risk management.

Working for our organisation

We treat more than one million patients; people from Norfolk, neighbouring counties and further afield. Our patients are referred to us by around 100 local GP practices but we are also a tertiary referral centre from other acute hospitals and primary care trusts around the country. Norwich is a beautiful and historic city set within the picturesque Norfolk countryside. It has good links to London and is located close to the stunning North Norfolk coast.  Norwich also hosts a year-round calendar of events and festivals.   

As a University teaching hospital we have established our research and development strategy in partnership with the University of East Anglia. Currently we are conducting three multi-centred NIHR funded studies, in Interstitial Lung Disease, asthma and bronchiectasis. We also work closely with our partners in the Norwich Research Park and Norwich Radiology Academy to take forward our ambitious targets for research and development. The UEA School of Medicine was founded in 2002 and is now consistently ranked in the top 20 medical schools in the UK. Applicants would have the opportunity to contribute to medical student teaching.