Locum Consultant in Respiratory Research
- NHS
- Part Time
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- 105504.00 - 139882.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
The post centres round supporting research in respiratory medicine and will be based mostly at the Sir William Leech Centre for Respiratory Research, Freeman Hospital though covering studies within the wider Trust such as Royal Victoria Hospital site may be needed. The role requires flexible working and is less than full time. The work pattern can be negotiated for the right candidate but is likely to be 2 programmed activities (2PAs) per week. This post is commence as soon as possible for 12 months.
Additional duties will include answering data queries, attending site initiation visits, training in our open studies and explaining studies / taking consent.
Successful applicants must have essential skills including sound knowledge of Good clinical practice (GCP) for clinical trials and ideally certification of training in this from NIHR or equivalent. Desirable requirements are prior experience in clinical trials and specialist respiratory expertise.
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.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
Senior Medical Oversight (less than full time). into Sir William Leech Centre for Respiratory research; supporting research nurse team and junior doctor.
The role will involve supervision and support to the respiratory research team and may involve attending research participant visits, attending site initiation visits and monitoring visits.
The successful applicant would be expected to have good working knowledge of clinical trials, assessing patient eligibility and screening, adverse events/ reporting and working with principal investigators.
The responsibilities include supporting the nurses and early career research doctors in seeing trials participants, undertaking physical examinations, documenting visits, safety reporting and reviewing results.
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.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Professor Tony De Soyza on 0191 2448441 or secretary on 0191 2231439 , or via email at Anthony.de-soyza@ncl.ac.uk
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teachingNHS 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.
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
No clinics or on call / ward cover duties expected but there may be opportunity to support these as workload / interests / need for patient identification for new research studies arises
Clinical care of trials participants / dealing with abnormal results/ assessing trials eligibility / prescribing
Administrative:
Maintain ICH -GCP Good clinical practice (GCP for trials)
Oversight of participants in trials results
Research:
Clinical care of trials participants / dealing with abnormal results / assessing trials eligibility
Prescribing
Teaching:
No specific teaching responsibilities though opportunities arise through departmental weekly teaching, ward based teaching of medical students
Flexibility:
In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work. This post is less than full time and concentrates on supporting the clinical trials centre work which is predominantly in office hours
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC Registration
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
Desirable
- Higher Degree.
- Special skills training in the specialty
- ICH GCP certification
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience in the specialty.
- Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
- An understanding of Clinical Governance and clinical trials documentation
Desirable
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
- Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
Essential
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
- Research/critical review of literature
- Publications in the last five years
Desirable
- Higher degree.
- ICH GCP certification
Audit
Essential
- Evidence of participation in audit
Desirable
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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