Locum Paediatric Respiratory Consultant - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The successful applicant will work alongside the other consultants and share responsibilities and work load with support from other members of the team.

In line with the agreed team objectives, the successful applicant will:
Maintain a high quality tertiary service for children with complex respiratory disorders.

Contribute to the consultant of the week and on-call commitment Contribute to the inpatient and outpatient management of children with general and complex respiratory disorders Contribute to the high quality training programme in paediatric respiratory medicine.

As well as providing day to day management for the respiratory in-patients at Alder Hey, the respiratory consultants provide a busy respiratory consultation service to all the other clinical teams in the hospital on a day-to-day basis.

They also provide prompt support for paediatricians in the Mersey region, North Wales and beyond, and for colleagues in primary care.

The appointee will lead a respiratory/asthma clinic, with full support from nurse specialists and respiratory function testing.

In addition, depending on the experience of the appointee, there may be the opportunity to run regular clinics dedicated to providing a higher level of care for patients with complex respiratory disease.