Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-CONSRESP
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Respiratory Medicine
Consultant
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a respiratory consultant. This role will to support the ongoing sustainability of Respiratory services in Gloucestershire, including supporting sleep and ventilation services.
Main duties of the job
Respiratory medicine has been identified as the vanguard service for the Strategic Transformation Programme for Gloucestershire in recognition of the strong and dynamic links between the acute trust and the community-based integrated respiratory team. This post will be cross county appointments with activities on both sites and, subject to the candidate’s skills and interest there will be opportunities to work in the community as well.
The successful candidate will participate equally in the departmental ward, hot and on call rota and will be able to develop another subspecialty interest, balanced with the needs of the department.
Working for our organisation
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust (GHNHSFT) was formed in April 2002 and became a second wave Foundation Trust in July 2004. We are a large organisation providing acute services from Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester and Cheltenham General Hospital. In collaboration with the other NHS Trust in Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust – GHCNHSFT – who provide physical health, mental health and learning disability services), we provide Oncology services across Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and parts of Powys and Worcestershire.
Our workforce is almost 8,000 strong. Our caring and dedicated staff are recognised as providing outstanding patient-centred, high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
- To assess and review patients and perform procedures as required
- To support the clinical decision making of junior medical and nursing staff
- To ensure timely and effective communication with primary care colleagues, including using the Trust’s electronic discharge summary system.
- To provide on call support out of hours. To attend the Department out of hours as per agreed protocols. To remain contactable and available when on call.
Education and Training:
- To provide conditions for improved training opportunities in line with national and local recommendations arising out of MMC and related requirements
- To participate in the undergraduate teaching programme
- To assist and participate with the development of postgraduate training for F1s, F2s, core trainees, SpRs, StRs and other staff as appropriate
Clinical Governance:
- To undertake all work in accordance with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust procedures and operating policies
- To adhere to the Trust’s Adverse Clinical Incident Policy
Teamwork:
- To work within the framework of team decisions.
- To take a whole systems approach to working with the wider hospital and health community
- To show initiative, enthusiasm and flexibility
Accountability:
- The post holder will be immediately accountable to the Specialty Director for Respiratory and Cardiology. Further line management is provided by the Chief of Service for medicine and subsequently the Medical Director.
- The post-holder has a general duty of care for his or her own health, safety and well being and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital. This statutory duty is in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with the post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration and a licence to practise
- MBBS or equivalent
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for General or Respiratory Medicine via CCT or CESR (CP) (proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview)
- CESR or European Community Rights
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Respiratory and G(I)M experience through most or all of training.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated additional experience and interest in thoracic malignancy, interstitial lung disease or ventilation
Management and Administrative Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in Audit and Clinical Governance Programmes
- Ability to manage and lead a clinical team
Desirable criteria
- IT skills including database management and word processing skills
- Attendance on a management course
Training Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to teach clinical and generic skills
- Evidence of ability to apply research outcomes to clinical and organisational problems
Desirable criteria
- Training in teaching skills
- Certificate of education
- Evidence of involvement in undergraduate education
- Evidence of experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates
- Evidence of ability to supervise postgraduate research
Research Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to appraise research critically and apply research outcomes to clinical and organisational problems
- Ability to supervise junior staff undertaking research projects
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Evidence of effective team working
- Conscientiousness and empathetic
- Able to take responsibility, show leadership and make decisions
- Use non-judgemental approach to patients and colleagues regardless of the sexuality, ethnicity, disability, religious beliefs of financial status
- Flexible and resilient
- Initiative, drive and enthusiasm
- Committed to lifelong learning
- Able to meet travel commitments of the post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adam Usher
- Job title
- Respiratory Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 4346
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