Consultant in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine

Job description

Full or part time applicants are invited to apply for Consultant posts in Respiratory Medicine based at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

A post has been approved following the ongoing expansion and reconfiguration of the department of Thoracic Medicine at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The appointee will join the team delivering in-patient, out-patient and bronchoscopy services which include sub-specialty clinics (Interstitial lung disease, sleep, domiciliary ventilation, COPD, asthma and bronchiectasis; all in collaboration with our community partner, Central London Community Healthcare Trust), together with pure WHHT services which include TB, lung cancer and the new dedicated pleural program with medical thoracoscopy. In addition the department is actively involved in the acute sector of the hospital with an increasing emphasis on level 2 medical HDU support. Integral to the department’s strategy is the expansion of our physiology services which include cardio-pulmonary exercise testing.

Applicants with existing skills in CPET, NIV and/or medical HDU are particularly encouraged to apply.

There are 9 established respiratory consultants, two associate specialists and 4 Lung CNS supported by a team of community-based respiratory specialist nurses and physiotherapists providing nurse led clinical care, ‘hospital at home’, oxygen and pulmonary rehabilitation.

The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the weekday SMART (specialist respiratory take) on call rota, which will replace the GIM rota. By substitution the chest physicians have dropped G(I)M on call commitments at weekends for a specialist respiratory rota (Saturday/Sunday mornings/ 1in 10).

Enquires about these posts with a view to arranging informal visits are welcomed. Please contact Dr Ajitha Jayaratnam on 01923217699, [email protected] or Dr Rahul Mogal on 01923217158, [email protected]

Company Description

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire.

As an employer of over 4000 people we are one of the biggest employers in the area and see around a million patients each year.

Our vision is to embody in our hospitals the principles, values and sense of service that created the NHS by providing consistently good, safe care in a friendly, listening and informative way, as and when people need and want it and always with dignity and respect.