Consultant Respiratory Medicine

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to recruit a Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine, with a specialist interest in either difficult asthma or ILD. Successful candidates will join a team of 12 consultants cross-county and will participate in a ward consultant of the week rota on the Worcester Royal site. They will run and develop complex asthma/ILD clinics and MDTs and manage patients on biologics and disease modifying drugs as part of a hub and spoke model. The post includes a general medical on-call commitment. The Directorate provides services across 3 hospital sites within the county of Worcestershire. The department has a well-established team of nurse practitioners, highly specialised respiratory nurses, respiratory physiotherapists and physiologist and the successful candidate will benefit from a cohesive and supportive MDT environment. The department is actively recruiting to research trials and has excellent research nurse and department support. Interested candidates are invited contact Dr Jamie Johnstone or Dr Will Foster to discuss the opportunity.

As part of the Consultant Advisory Appointment Committee, shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide a 5 minute presentation on the topic: How should we use existing secondary care Respiratory department resources to improve integrated working? AAC Interview date: 18th January 2027

A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners. The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course. The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital. The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care. The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trusts and departmental objectives. The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post. The Trust would expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team.