We are offering a Locum Respiratory Consultant an exciting opportunity to join our Respiratory team, leading and developing our service to meet the joint vision across Mid & South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSE).
As our ideal candidate you will have a special interest especially in Asthma or sleep.
Our service covers a full range of respiratory services including pulmonary function, cardiorespiratory exercise tests, pleural investigation, sleep studies and flexible bronchoscopy (which are done in the endoscopy unit) are performed.
The department has a special interest in the epidemiology of lung cancer and sleep disorder and assisted ventilation for respiratory failure is provided on the ward where the specialist respiratory nurse is based.
We also have a prevention of admission and early discharge service for COPD and a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service.
Your role will be to partake in a 1:15 rota on call for General Medicine, this will attract a Category B 1% on-call supplement.
You will be expected to promote a friendly and team based working environment – in line with our Trust Values, the teaching of primary care colleagues and junior medical staff through mixture of case-based review and formal teaching activity, undertaking managerial and budgetary responsibilities as required and mandatory involvement in annual appraisals.
Our Respiratory service has facilities and links for the development of Research work and the hospital has an active audit department to which respiratory division tends to contribute to the major national audits on the regular basis.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.
We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.
We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.
Are you ready to join and develop within our Respiratory team, then we want to hear from you?
Please see the attached JD for further details of this exciting role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Apr 2025