Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine with Lung Transplant & PH

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This is a locum post (10PA) to support the NUTH lung transplant, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory service.

This post is to commence as soon as possible for 6 months.

The primary objective of this post is to support the Lung Transplant service with patient assessments, post-operative care and long term follow up. There will also be opportunity to support Pulmonary Hypertension service inpatient assessments and outpatient clinics. It is recognised that applicants may not have experience in both areas, and the Pulmonary Hypertension aspect of the post is flexible and training can be provided as needed.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you., To support lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and general respiratory services.

Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine and Cardiothoracic Transplantation.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.