Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a full time substantive Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine to join our well-established and dynamic Paediatric Respiratory Medicine (PRM) team. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to play a key role in the delivery and development of specialist respiratory services for children across the East Midlands.
This post is a 10 PA Consultant role and is integral to our ongoing service development, allowing us to maintain a clinic free acute service week model. The successful candidate will join a team of six Consultants and will contribute to inpatient service weeks (including Long Term Ventilation), as well as general respiratory, LTV, asthma, and cystic fibrosis (CF) clinics. There will also be opportunities to develop joint clinics in areas such as ENT, Surgery, Immunology, and participation in the National Ataxia Telangiectasia Clinic. The post also includes complex sleep work and bronchoscopy lists, depending on the expertise and interests of the appointee.
We are a tertiary referral centre offering a comprehensive paediatric respiratory service across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and beyond. The team has a strong ethos of collaborative multidisciplinary working, delivering high quality, family centred care.
Please see the job description for detailed duties and responsibilities.
Full time Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine.
This post is a 10 PA Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine post to be an integral part of the PRM team. This will allow the service to move to a clinic free acute service week model. The Job plan will be finalised in discussion with the successful candidate.
The successful candidate will join a team of 6 Consultants. The post will involve covering inpatient service weeks. Clinics will be in general respiratory medicine, LTV, asthma and CF. There will be opportunities,
once established in post to take on more joint clinics in e.g. ENT, surgery, immunology and also to contribute to the National AT clinic. Complex sleep work and bronchoscopy lists are also scheduled in the job plan.
Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives, and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.
With more than 19,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond. Our Trust spans over three sites including Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House.
We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services, and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes.
We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.
As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. We are proud of our strong relationships with universities across the East Midlands, including the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University.
Please see the job description for detailed duties and responsibilities.
We are a tertiary referral centre providing a service to the East Midlands for complex respiratory conditions.
We provide a comprehensive service focusing on delivering patient and family centred care to a high standard
for the children and young people of the region. We have a strong ethos of collaborative multidisciplinary
team work.
We offer the following services:
• Specialist cystic fibrosis centre which provides a hub for a shared care network throughout
Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.
• Long-term ventilation service which supports children, young people and their families across the
region (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Staffordshire) whose long-term and
complex health problems mean that they need mechanical ventilation (both non-invasive and
tracheostomy).
• Paediatric bronchoscopy service for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
• Specialist clinics for children with difficult asthma and rare lung disease.
• Service for babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
• Paediatric tuberculosis service.
• Supra regional cleft lip and palate service for young infants.
• Pre-operative assessment for children undergoing spinal surgery.
• Joint respiratory clinics are held with ENT, Immunology, Rheumatology and Paediatric Surgery.
• International clinic for children with Ataxia Telangiectasia.
This advert closes on Friday 11 Apr 2025