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Associated University (UCL) NHS Provider Trust Consultant in Respiratory Medicine Our Trust West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is an acute trust providing hospital services to over 500,000 people living in Hertfordshire and north London. It has three hospitals (Watford General, St Albans City Hospital and Hemel Hempstead Hospital). The trust also manages an outpatient physiotherapy unit at Abbotts Langley. The Watford site is by far the biggest and is the focus for the trust’s emergency and specialised care. The trust provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of north London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and east Hertfordshire. We employ around 5,000 staff and over the course of a year treat nearly a million people, including 150,900 people attending our emergency services, nearly half a million via outpatient clinics and deliver about 4,600 babies. 1 For more details, please see link below. http://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/about/trustboard.asp Our hospitals Watford General Hospital Watford is the main site for emergency and specialist care. The clinical services include: Women’s and children’s services, including a consultant-led delivery unit, midwife-led birthing unit, antenatal and postnatal clinics Emergency care, including accident and emergency, acute admissions unit Ambulatory care unit, acute wards, intensive care unit and emergency surgery Planned care, including outpatients and complex surgery Medical care, including cardiology, care of the elderly, dermatology, endocrinology-diabetes, gastroenterology, haematology, neurology, respiratory, rheumatology and stroke Clinical support, including X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, pathology, pharmacy, radiology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietetic services Hemel Hempstead Hospital The clinical services offered at Hemel Hempstead include: Antenatal and community midwifery Outpatients Step-down beds for patients Urgent care centre Medical care, including endoscopy and cardiac lung function testing Diagnostic support, including X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound and non-urgent pathology St Albans City Hospital St Albans is our elective, ie pre-arranged and non-emergency, care centre. The clinical services offered include: Antenatal and community midwifery Outpatients Minor injuries unit Elective and day surgery Clinical support, including X-ray, ultrasound, mammography and blood and specimen collection Our Values Our trust values give staff, patients and their families a common purpose. They help staff to better serve our patients and meet and exceed their expectations. They form the foundation of our working day. Opportunities for development The trust offers excellent educational and development opportunities for all staff. It has strong links with the local universities who have extensive portfolios of courses and programmes ranging from personal development through to leadership and management skills. Staff health and wellbeing The trust is committed to supporting staff and promoting a positive work and life balance. Our Balance4Life programme offers staff a wide range of regular health and wellbeing events and activities. It includes fitness classes, health checks, talks and seminars. Local information Our hospitals are a great place to live and work. We are close to the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside and historical places of interest, with great shopping, excellent restaurants and a vibrant night life. There is a wide variety of leisure, cultural and recreation facilities within the locality, which boasts excellent schools and colleges. The city of London is easily reached within 30 minutes by rail travel. Bus services run between the train stations and Watford Hospital. The M25 is approximately 15 minutes away. Heathrow and Luton airports are both approximately 45 minutes away. Hemel Hempstead is served by the M1, M10 and M25 motorways. There is a rail link from London Euston to Hemel Hempstead that takes approximately 25 minutes. St Albans is 25 minutes from the city of London, close to the M25 and M1 and only 17 minutes by rail from London via the Thames Link. For more information about the work of our hospitals, please visit: www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk. You can also join our 5,000+ followers we have on Twitter (www.twitter.com/WestHertsNHS or @WestHertsNHS) or ‘like us’ on Facebook (www.facebook.com/WestHertsNHS). You can view photos from our hospitals on our Flickr page: (https://www.flickr.com/photos/westhertsnhs Consultants in the Medical Division Accident & Emergency H Borkett-Jones D Gaunt R Davis R Hoey N Suri M Jacobs S De Silva R Burridge S Khan S Kamal-Uddin C Shine S Ishtiaq Rizvi R Vasiraju Acute Physicians A Hamda P Pusalkar S Devendra P Saravanan M Arif M Thapa S Obaidee Cardiology Consultants N Hadjiloizou P Moore N Keenan M Van der Watt M Khan A Varnava M Koa-Wing W Wallis D Lefroy P Jain J Sehmi A Griguer Care of Elderly K Debrah D Collas L Thangaraj A Mir J Bernstein S Rizvi D Ranjith M Alam K Ekanayake R Kings M Bhandari T Adesina G Cooray Clinical Haematology S Bradley A Wood J Harrison G Abrahamson H Al-Sader B Czako Dermatology V Bataille K Batta V Blackwell M Murdoch S Dawe F Tatnall J Dyche A Brown C Allen C Champagne D Sandhu T Siah Diabetes & Endocrinology C Johnston A Ogilvie C Kong J Ostberg T Galliford P Pulsakar A Pokrajac R Kehinde A Hamda T O’Shea Gastroenterology S Catnach A Leahy A King B Macfarlane K. Wallis M Fullard M Shariff R Chaudhary J Landy A Vaziri Nephrology P Warwicker T Cairns P Hill Neurology L Parsons P Korlipara R Brenner K Fernando N Dhanjal A Foulkes K Farrell A Gechev Z Khaleeli L Zambreanu D Rayan Respiratory Medicine J Cairn A Barlow D Evans R Vancheesswaran A Jayaratnam A Jackson R Mogal S Konda Rheumatology S Bhalara K Baburaj L Patel A Seneviratne C Wing 4. Postgraduate Education The Trust has active post graduate medical facilities on all sites. A new £1 million postgraduate medical centre has recently opened at the Watford site. Facilities include two lecture theatres, several meeting rooms equipped for computerised presentations and teleconferencing, clinical skills centre and internet access. There is also a refurbished postgraduate centre at Hemel Hempstead Hospital which boasts excellent facilities. Libraries are situated on both sites. The Trust regularly hosts the MRCP, PACES exam and Regional College Teach-ins. The Consultant Physicians are involved in teaching of the Junior Doctors and the post holder would be expected to contribute to the F1 and F2 teaching programme as well as offer PACES teaching and occasional education to the local GP community. 5. Undergraduate Education West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust is a University College London Associated NHS Provider. The Consultants are involved in the training of undergraduate students from UCL, Imperial College Medical Schools and St George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada. 6. Research The Trust has a proactive attitude towards to Research & Development and the department is involved in a number of external research studies. 7. Clinical Governance (including Clinical Audit) The Trust has a regular programme for clinical governance which includes both multidisciplinary and speciality meetings. The Department produces an annual clinical governance report. The post holder will be expected to make an important contribution to developing the Clinical Governance Programme. The Trust places strong emphasis on audit and all departments are encouraged to undertake regular audit projects. The post holder will take an active interest and participate in departmental, divisional audits and quarterly medical audit meeting. 8. Respiratory Department The Respiratory department at WHHT is Consultant led and the service largely Consultant delivered. Consultants Dr Abi Jackson – Lung cancer, pulmonary nodule pathway, smoking cessation Dr Andy Barlow – Interventional bronchoscopy, lung cancer and Divisional Director for Medicine Dr David Evans – CLCH Community Service Lead, COPD, TB Dr Ajitha Jayaratnam – Co-clinical lead, Acute TB Lead and Assistant Divisional Director Dr Matthew Knight – Associate Dean for the East of England Deanery, allergy and asthma, pleural lead, CPET Dr Rahul Mogal – Co-clinical lead, Lung Cancer Lead, interventional bronchcoscopy Dr Julius Cairn – ILD, respiratory infection, pneumonia Dr Shruthi Konda – ARCU Lead, CPET, pleural Dr R Vancheeswaran – Research and Audit Lead, ILD Dr Pancha Nandasiri – Associate Specialist Dr Fred Odhiambo – Associate Specialist Chantoy Spencer – Assistant Divisional Manager Philip Kelso – Assistant Service Manager Claire Taylor - Macmillan Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Hannah Gepp - Macmillan Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Jismol Hyncil - Macmillan Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Alexandre Newland-Smith – Chief Respiratory Physiologist Andre Henriques – Lung Physiologist Rosie Bourke– new Lung physiologist 5 Respiratory specialist registrars from the East of England deanery. One interventional bronchoscopy clinical fellow post A team of 6 CMT and 6 FY doctors are based on Aldenham ward. We have a well-established community clinic service provided by our partners CLCH Healthcare Trust. Clinics are carried out throughout trust sites by the consultant team, in collaboration with respiratory nurses employed by CLCH. The community clinics are deigned to provide a service for our patients with chronic respiratory disease including COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis and interstitial lung disease. They also provide our