Specialist for Respiratory Medicine

Enherts Tr; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable healthcare trust in Stevenage is seeking an experienced Specialist Grade doctor. This pivotal role involves managing the respiratory ward and providing specialty input to patients across various clinical settings. The successful candidate will join a flexible and innovative healthcare team dedicated to high-quality care and continuous improvement. The post requires significant experience in respiratory medicine and effective engagement with clinical governance. Competitive salary and full-time hours offered, with a focus on supporting career development.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 12 years of medical work since obtaining a primary medical qualification.
• 6 years in a relevant specialty with experience in Respiratory Medicine.
• Demonstration of ability to achieve Advanced Life Support immediately.

Responsibilities

• Care for inpatients and outpatients in the Respiratory Department.
• Participate in General Internal Medicine responsibilities.
• Teach and train undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Skills

Engagement with clinical governance

Ability to offer independent diagnostic opinion

Fully competent with Bronchoscopy

Experience in managing critically ill patients

Education

Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practice

College Membership (MRCP) or equivalent

Postgraduate academic degree

Job description

Main area Respiratory Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Pending substantive recruitment) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (ON CALL 1 weekday every 2 months) Job ref 361-M&D-7669681

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £100,870 - £111,441 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/01/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job overview

Our Trust is committed to career development which allows us to look out for individuals who are proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic to join our clinical team. These posts are an important part of our ongoing development of services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We are seeking a specialist doctor with enthusiasm, commitment and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation.

This is a fixed term posts based at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the team at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful candidates will help managed the respiratory ward and be involved with the respiratory support unit in managing level 2 respiratory patients. There will be commitment to general respiratory out-patient clinics and participation in the medical on call.

The post-holder will also be involved in the respiratory in-reach service (acute chest team) providing specialty input to patient on non-respiratory ward especially in the acute areas and holding a HOT clinic once a week.

Main duties of the job

• The appointee will be responsible for the care of inpatients and outpatients in the Respiratory Department and will be expected to establish and maintain the highest clinical standards in managing these patients.
• Participation in the General Internal Medicine responsibilities of the Respiratory Team including the general medical on call
• Support of the unit’s goal of delivering highly effective care approaches
• The teaching and training of undergraduate and postgraduate students and junior staff
• To participate in both department and Trust matters concerning clinical governance and audit.
• To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in CME throughout.
• To support development and delivery of sub-specialist respiratory services.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

• Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practice
• College Membership (MRCP) or qualification of an equivalent level
• Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
• Advanced Life Support or demonstration of ability to achieve ALS immediately upon appointment
• Postgraduate academic degree

Previous Experience

• Shall have completed a minimum of 12 years medical work (either in continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of 6 years should have been in a relevant Specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years’ experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted.
• Demonstrate an interest in, commitment to and have Broad range of experience in Respiratory Medicine in particular: o Experience in acute medicine emergencies and sleep medicine
• Fully competent with Bronchoscopy
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Experience and expertise in managing critically ill patients within a medical ICU and HDU environment

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation

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Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

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We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.