Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine

We have an exciting opportunity for a Locum Consultant to join The Directorate of Respiratory Medicine at James Cook University Hospital for 12 months. This will include on-call cover 1:6.

Candidates with an interest in Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Disease, Non-Invasive Ventilation, Bronchiectasis, TB or Obstructive Sleep Apnoea would complement the current team.

The service includes a 35 bedded inpatient ward incorporating an 8 bedded Respiratory Support Unit for non-invasive ventilation; a Lung Cancer Nursing Team; TB Nursing Team; COPD Outreach Service, COVID-19 virtual ward service, domiciliary NIV and a Specialist Respiratory Physiology Laboratory. Consultant led Acute Respiratory Assessment Service and Pleural Day Case Service runs weekly. We have specialist cancer, pleural disease, and difficult asthma, TB, and bronchiectasis clinics, sleep and NIV clinics. We have close links with the Newcastle interstitial lung disease, when requiring consensus opinion for ILD, and for commencing anti-fibrotics.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the highest clinical standards in the practice of Respiratory Medicine.

Clinical/on-call responsibilities:

• Undertake any responsibility which relates to the agreed special interests.
• Cover for colleagues’ annual leave and other authorized absences.
• Provide professional supervision and management of junior medical staff.
• Take part in annual appraisals (mandatory for all Consultants), carried out by the Clinical Director. Appropriate time and assistance will be provided for preparation.
• Active involvement in audit.
• Continuing professional development. The Trust supports requirements for CPD as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing support for these activities.
• Any other duties which may be required.

Since October 2019, we have been empowering our clinicians to make the decisions around how we allocate our resources and deliver care – supported by the wealth of experience and professional knowledge that exists within our operational, estates, human resources and other administrative and support teams.

We have done this through our Clinical Policy Group (CPG) which draws its membership from our clinical directors, nursing and allied health professional leaders, chief medical officer, executive team, operational managers, chairs of staff-side, our senior medical staff forum, and our BMA representative.

Our CPG has created ten clinically-led improvement collaboratives (service groups) – natural care communities of surgeons, physicians, nurses, midwives, scientists, allied health professionals and administrative and support colleagues, which have come together to make their services even better for our patients.

At the heart of our clinical collaboratives is our Leadership Improvement and Safety Academy which encompasses our patient safety faculty and provides a range of support, including leadership and management training, quality improvement skills, team and service support, coaching and human factors training.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Dr Vytis Dudzevicius
Job title: Respiratory Consultant
Email address:
Telephone number: 01642 850850

Lesley Giddy
Medical Secretary to Dr Sathyamurthy and Dr Dudzevicius
Respiratory Medicine
The James Cook University Hospital
Respiratory Medicine Services
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
(Extension: 54475)

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