Consultant Physician with an interest in Respiratory Medicine

Job overview

Main duties of the job

The Respiratory Medicine department provides services on both acute sites of the Trust (Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital). The appointees will join Dr Mankragod in this replacement on the Maidstone site.

The expected full-time commitment for these posts will average to 10 PAs per week, made up of 8 DPAs and 2 SPAs. The successful applicants will share medical responsibility for managing up to a 32 bedded Respiratory inpatient ward, with their other Respiratory colleagues, with appropriate junior medical doctor support. The ward has at least 1 registrar grade, 3 F2/GPST/IMT trainees, 2 FY1 trainee.

The Department is looking for a consultant to take over as COPD Lead and Smoking cessation Lead for the Trust and lead on the COPD MDM at Maidstone Hospital.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
• To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
• To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
• To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
• To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
• To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
• To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
• To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice” including the Duties of a Doctor.