At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team delivering acute care in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine.
- Company: St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, rated Outstanding by CQC.
- Benefits: Full-time NHS role with competitive pay and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Exciting opportunity to work with a supportive multidisciplinary team.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patient care while developing your medical career.
- Qualifications: Must hold GMC registration and Membership of the Royal College of Physicians.
The predicted salary is between 37035 - 45265 £ per year.
Applications are invited for a 12 month fixed term Locum Consultant post in Respiratory and General (internal) Medicine. This is a whole-time post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK or equivalent qualifications). Due to the short-term nature of the role / service demand, the successful candidate must hold full registration with the GMC and have existing right to live and work in the UK, at the time of application. Candidates who are not GMC registered or do not hold existing right to live and work in the UK, at the time of application will not progress to the shortlisting stage. An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.
This full time NHS post will enable the Trust to continue the delivery of Respiratory services across the primary/secondary care interface, support delivery of acute care for respiratory patients and achieve waiting time targets for outpatients and emergency care. Successful candidates will complement existing General Respiratory and lung cancer team.
Weekday on call commitment: The weekday on call rota (General Medicine) will be a 1 in 14 providing telephone advice between the hours of 7pm and 9am (Monday - Friday) and 5pm - 9am (Saturday & Sunday). Time off in lieu or a hybrid of time off in lieu and payment can be offered for oncall commitment.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing Respiratory service on the Southport Site at Mersey & West Lancashire Hospital. The Consultant appointments to these posts will deliver sessions of care to general medicine inpatients on the ward in conjunction with 1 General Respiratory weekly outpatient clinic, 2 Lung Cancer weekly clinics (1 for new patients and 1 for follow-up patients) on our Ormskirk site, in-reach service for a selected acute respiratory admission ward round, as well as bronchoscopy services.
The Respiratory department currently is made up of 4 full time Respiratory Consultants. The Consultants appointed to these posts will help to supervise and work alongside 2 respiratory ST3+ trainees, 1 specialty doctor and 1 senior clinical fellow. This is complemented by a larger team of 3 foundation year trainees, 2 internal medicine trainees (IMT1 & IMT2)/GP trainees, a Physician Associate and ACP. The medical team is also supported by 2 equivalent full time lung cancer nurses and a lung cancer support worker as well as 2.6 equivalent full time general respiratory specialist nurses.
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