Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is a replacement/reconfiguration substantive post resulting from changes toorganisationofconsultantteam to deliver the existing respiratory and Cystic Fibrosis service. The post holder will join an established Respiratory and Cystic fibrosis service which provides tertiary respiratory care including Cystic fibrosis, Long-term ventilation, Sleep, Difficult asthma, Primary ciliary dyskinesia,Bronchiectasisand several other conditions.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will join an established Respiratory and Cystic fibrosis (CF) service which provides tertiary respiratory care including in CF, long term ventilation, sleep problems, difficult asthma, non-Cf bronchiectasis, Primary ciliarydyskinesiaand several other conditions. The post holder willparticipatein general respiratory and CF service outpatientprovisionand there is provision to develop a subspeciality interest in LTV and sleep based on post holder’s experience and service needs. There is alsoscopeto support the development of CF service provision with newer expectations and specifications and lung function testing.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GMC registration
  • MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
  • On the GMC’s Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview.

Desirable

  • Higher Degree (MD, PhD, etc)
  • Management training

Clinical Skills & Nature of Experience

Essential

  • Appropriate progression of career to date
  • Minimum of 2 years specialist training in units approved for training by Respiratory CSAC (RCPCH) or an established consultant in Respiratory Paediatrics elsewhere with equivalent experience.
  • Competent in all aspects of the paediatric respiratory training curriculum for inpatient and outpatient management and competent in performing flexible bronchoscopy, reporting complex lung function tests and sleep study reporting.
  • Skills to manage acutely ill child in setting of complex/ chronic respiratory issues Ability to interpret various specialist lung function tests
  • Experience in managing safeguarding cases
  • Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
  • Valid BLS training

Desirable

  • Special experience in long-term ventilation, difficult asthma and sleep to complement current interests within department
  • Valid APLS

Academic Achievements

Essential

  • Good knowledge and skills in clinical governance, patient safety and child protection procedures
  • Completed audit cycle

Desirable

  • Influenced guideline or protocol development and effected change in practice

Management

Essential

  • Experience of management and leadership
  • Evidence of development of innovative approaches to healthcare delivery
  • Experience in developing and motivating staff

Desirable

  • Attendance at recognised management course
  • Evidence of some Regional or National experience of committee work

Personal Skills, Qualities, Aptitudes

Essential

  • Ability to communicate with clarity in written and spoken English
  • Capacity to gain confidence and trust from others
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Able to build strong and effective relationships with patients, families and colleagues
  • Ability to cope with pressure from unexpected or urgent clinical situations
  • Flexible and able to lead a professional team
  • The ability to organise workload and prioritise competing demands, make decisions, exert appropriate authority
  • Empathy, listening skills and patience
  • Ability to work within team
  • Honesty and integrity
  • IT literacy

Desirable

  • Innovation and an excellent ability to respond to and cope with change

Teaching

Essential

  • “Training the trainers” training or equivalent Commitment to teaching and training

Desirable

  • Experience in teaching and training
  • Formal teaching qualification

Professional Development

Essential

  • Commitment to Continuing Professional Development

Desirable

  • To develop the speciality in co-operation with departmental colleagues

Other

Essential

  • Ability to fulfil all of the duties of the post, including on-call commitments and travel requirements
  • Satisfactory Enhanced DBS and required immigration status

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 6 October 2026

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