Respiratory Consultant Practitioner; Developing

Respiratory Consultant Practitioner (Developing) NHS AfC:
Band 8c

Main area Thoracic medicine Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8c Contract Permanent: flexible across sites Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
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Site Derriford Hospital Town Plymouth Salary £57,528 - £91,609 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/2026 23:59

Shape the future of integrated respiratory care at University Hospitals Plymouth.

We are offering a rare and exciting opportunity to help lead and develop our system ‑ wide respiratory service as a Respiratory Consultant Practitioner. We’re looking for the right person—whether you’re an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner ready to progress or an established Consultant Practitioner seeking a new challenge.

You’ll join a forward ‑ thinking, supportive multidisciplinary team with a clear ambition: to transform respiratory care, improve outcomes and deliver high ‑ quality, truly integrated services across our system.

If you’re ready to take the next step and help drive the transformation of respiratory services in Plymouth and beyond, we’d love to hear from you.

*** Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment.

We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.

• At all times ensures that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery.
• Takes a positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma, and using the best possible communication methods. In line with the mental capacity act, share decision-making with patients and those important to them, so that people can represent themselves, and carers and communities can take action together; valid and reliable tools for providing care and services can be selected, the effectiveness of physical, psychological, and social interactions and services (including, drug, non-drug, and clinical) and the transition through each stage of care and service can be assessed.
• Makes independent clinical decisions by utilising advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based knowledge in the management of patients with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills to deliver care in a variety of clinical settings.
• Provides expert advice and instruction to all grades and disciplines, in matters relating to respiratory care.
• Interprets and analyses complex clinical and non-clinical facts, to regularly provide expert advice and second opinion to members of the multi-disciplinary team, including when views may differ or conflict. This includes the formulation of accurate diagnosis and recommendation of best course of intervention.
• Refers patients to other departments or colleagues within or outside the Trust as necessary, relying on own interpretation of investigation results.
• Uses appropriate systems and strategies to ensure patients receive the most appropriate treatment. Is a nonmedical prescriber. This will include independent prescribing, the supply and administration of medicines in accordance with the…