Consultant Respiratory Physician

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post is offered at 6PAs.

We are keen to appoint enthusiastic, dynamic, and motivated consultants to our forward-thinking team that prides itself on providing high quality respiratory care across a comprehensive range of respiratory services.

The Trust is one of a small number of hospitals nationally confirmed to be in an early phase of the national New Hospital Build Programme. This will result in the acute hospital on the Leighton site being completely rebuilt and operational by 2031, providing fantastic opportunities for development and transformation of elective and acute surgical services at MCHFT.

The successful applicant must have full registration with the GMC and continue to hold a Licence to Practise. The applicant must also be on the Specialist Register or be within six months of obtaining their Certificate of Completion of Training in Respiratoty Medicine.

Main duties of the job

It is expected that the post holder will contribute to the leadership, delivery, and development of our future Respiratory services at Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust (MCHFT) as well as the exciting New Hospital Program that is in development at the current Leighton Hospital site.There is an opportunity to develop, progress and deliver sub-specialty services for Respiratory Medicine in all these areas:

• Respiratory Physician specialising in Pulmonary Oncology • Interstitial Lung Disease • Sleep and Ventilation • Tuberculosis and Complex infections • Severe Asthma and Airways Disease

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post is offered at 6 PA. The post holder will be expected to undertake 4.5 programmed activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care and 1.5 programmed activities (PAs) of Supporting Professional Activity per week.

Further details regrading the role can be found in the job description.