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Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Respiratory departments at Torbay Hospital, working in a dynamic and enthusiastic clinical team.

Applicants will be offered a 6-month post at registrar level in Respiratory with a focus in on research and quality improvement (QI), and then a 6-month post also in Respiratory with a focus on pleural procedural training and virtual wards. General respiratory clinics and management of inpatients on the respiratory ward and referrals to other inpatient wards will run throughout the year. There is also a commitment to the GIM registrar on-call rota.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate would be working at registrar-level within the respiratory department. The role includes participation in the 1:12 General (Internal) Medicine registrar rota.

Support the respiratory and GIM wards

Triage and review inpatient respiratory referrals

Work within our virtual ward team

Undertake outpatient respiratory clinics including pleural procedure clinics (with appropriate training and supervision)

Perform bronchoscopy lists (with supervision)

Participate in QI and research

Working for our organisation

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated organisation providing acute health care services from Torbay Hospital, community health services and adult social care. The Trust runs Torbay Hospital as well as five community hospitals, stretching from Dawlish to Brixham. We also provide health and social care to the local population. We have around 500,000 face-to-face contacts with patients in their homes and communities each year and see over 78,000 people in our A&E department annually. We serve a resident population of approximately 286,000 people, plus about 100,000 visitors at any one time during the summer holiday season. We employ approximately 6,000 staff including frontline health and social care staff, such as nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, consultants, and physiotherapists who work in your home and from a range of different premises across Torbay and south Devon such as community hospitals and clinics.  Our purpose is to provide safe, high-quality care and social care at the right time and in the right place to support the people of Torbay and South Devon to live their lives to the full. We receive the majority of income from our commissioners, South Devon and Torbay NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, who receive an allocation of NHS money from the government each year and decide on the healthcare priorities for the local population.