This post is for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Respiratory Medicine. This is a whole-time 12-month fixed term 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.
The position will enable the Respiratory Department to continue to develop high quality Respiratory services in a large teaching secondary care hospital that has been completely rebuilt with states of the arts facilities and cardiac diagnostics. The appointee will be expected to have extensive general Respiratory medicine training and experience with competency and subspecialty experience in all aspects of Respiratory condition management. Further sub speciality interest is desirable and will be encouraged.
Applicants must be eligible for full Registration with the GMC at the time of appointment.
The respiratory department has a total of 91 inpatient beds on three wards, 2B, 2C and 2D. The physician appointed to this post will deliver daily sessions of care to respiratory inpatients on the wards above on a rotational basis. Ward 2C houses the respiratory support unit for up to 6 patients and can provide respiratory support including, NIV, CPAP, and high flow nasal oxygen therapy. The unit is supported by a well-trained respiratory nurse team and is consultant lead 7 days a week. The entire Consultant Respiratory team has moved to a “seven day” model of care, with separate inpatient/outpatient periods on a rotating basis, 24 hour on call respiratory consultant is available for telephone advice. This innovation has promoted ambulatory care for patients with respiratory disease, improved the quality of inpatient care, reduced length of stay, and forged more cohesive day to day working relationships between the AMU staff and respiratory teams. In the Respiratory department model of care seven full time Respiratory Consultants are available Monday-Friday to provide inpatient and outpatient care, and ten Consultants are available for the weekend commitment.
The physician appointed to this post will help to supervise and contribute to medical care within the following trainee medical staff:
2 Specialist Registrars.
3 SpR Trust grade doctor
5 IMT3
3 SHO levels (IMT, GP trainees)
3 FY2 trainee.
6 FY1 trainees.
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.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
To observe the provisions of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures.
To actively participate in annual performance review to identify personal development needs.
To attend Trust Statutory and Mandatory training sessions as required and any other training courses relevant to the post.
To fully comply with the relevant sections of the Health and Safety at Work Act. The post holder must also understand and implement St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Hospitals Trust’s “Statement of Policy on Health and Safety at Work” and the Trust’s corporate “Health and Safety Policies and Procedures”. The post holder is required to follow all applicable rules and procedures relating to Health and Safety at Work and to take all responsible precautions.
To be aware of the confidential aspects of the post. To keep up to date with the requirements of information governance; undertake mandatory training and follow Trust policies and procedures to ensure that trust information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Breaches of confidentiality will result in disciplinary action that may involve dismissal. You must maintain the confidentiality of information about service user staff and organisational business in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR) and Caldicott principles
To ensure that when creating, managing and sharing information records, it is done in an appropriate way, subject to statutory requirements and agreed security and confidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines. All employees are responsible for implementing and maintaining data quality, ensuring that records are legible and attributable and that their record keeping is contemporaneous.
To be aware of the confidential aspects of the post. Breaches of confidentiality will result in disciplinary action that may involve dismissal. The post holder should also be aware that, regardless of any action taken by the employing authority, breaches of confidentiality could result in civil action for damages.
All employees will be treated with respect by managers, colleagues, patients and visitors and equally employees will treat managers, colleagues, patients and visitors with the same level of respect. Employees will be supported to challenge any discriminatory behaviour that may be based on differences in race, disability, language, culture, religion, sexuality, age, and gender or employment status.
To be responsible for the prevention and control of infection within their own area. To attend infection control induction training and subsequent mandatory infection control training. To follow all Trust policies, procedures and guidelines relating to infection control.
To adhere to relevant Code of Practice of Professional body (if appropriate)
The duties contained in this job description are not intended to be exhaustive. The duties and responsibilities of this post are likely to evolve in line with the Trust’s continued organisational development.
The post holder must be flexible in the duties performed and it is expected that similar duties, not specifically listed above, will be carried out as required and may be across sites.
Clinical Responsibilities
Participate in the initial assessment and management of patients, supervising more junior members of the team.
To lead inpatient ward rounds to ensure the on-going clinical management of patients is appropriate. To support the discharge of patients, to a place of safety, in a timely manner.
Participate in or lead the acute take, to provide senior clinical decisions, with the support of consultant clinicians.
Contribute to the Medical Emergency Team (MET). Lead cardiac arrest calls.
Contribute to GIM/medical speciality clinics.
Liaise with other members of the clinical team and other specialties.
Advise junior trainees and ANPs about management of patients.
Develop skills in managing the ward to avoid unnecessary patient delays and maintain good clinical care to all patients.
Professional Responsibilities
To participate in clinical audit and or quality improvement (QI) project.
To participate in continuing professional development.
Educational supervision will be provided.
To maintain a portfolio of training.
To comply with Trust policies and procedures, have (and maintain) GMC registration /licensing.
Audit and Education
To be involved in departmental audit/research/QIPs.
To attend educational opportunities where appropriate.
To maintain a portfolio of training.
To support medical & non-medical students within the ward area. Engage actively in teaching others as the work schedule allows.
