Specialist Clinical Fellow - Respiratory

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK healthcare provider is seeking a Clinical Fellow in Respiratory at their Frimley location. The role involves providing patient care under consultant supervision, participating in on-call duties, and undergoing extensive training in respiratory medicine including bronchoscopy and other procedures. The ideal candidate will have MRCP and relevant experience, and will join a collaborative team dedicated to high-quality healthcare.

Benefits

First class development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Flexibility in working patterns

Qualifications

• Completion of 2 years foundation programme.
• 1 year NHS experience at ST3 level.
• Experience of on-call duties.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for patients for designated Consultant/team.
• Participate in on-call rota including normal days and nights.
• Work within a supportive respiratory department.

Skills

Quality and Audit experience

Advanced Clinical skills

Leadership and Management skills

Education

MRCP Parts 1 and 2

MBBCH or equivalent Degree + Paces

Job description

Job Overview

This job is for a Clinical Fellow in Respiratory to provide care for patients for designated Consultant/team at ward level, and receiving support/ training from both Senior trainees and Consultant staff.

It provides excellent experience in respiratory and general medicine and prepares trainees for applications for specialist training.

Training and supervision in respiratory medicine (bronchoscopy, EBUS, pleural procedures, thoracoscopy, NIV (both inpatient and outpatient), Cystic Fibrosis, Lung Cancer, TB, ILD) as per the requirements and skills of the individual, and the needs of the department.

We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job

Registrars are offered specialty training including sleep and ventilation, Cystic Fibrosis, Pleural disease and intervention, endoscopic bronchial ultrasound (EBUS), TB and ILD. There are 5 resident doctors on the ward at any one time. There is a daily consultant led board round, and twice weekly consultant ward rounds. The specific job plans may change but exposure and experience in all the previously mentioned subspecialties will still be possible.

On call

Registrars contribute to the medical registrar on call rota which includes normal working days, on call days, weekend days and nights. The nights shifts are in blocks of 3 or 4 nights followed by compensatory rest days. The rota is EWTD and new contract compliant. There are medical consultants on site doing post take ward rounds for the general medical patients from 08.00 to 21.00 each day. A team of SHO grades, FY1s and Night Nurse Practitioners are present overnight.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The respiratory department is a supportive and pro-active group of consultants. There are 11 respiratory consultants, 2 registrars, 8 SHOs and 4 FY1s. There are also specialist nurses in CF, COPD, TB, ILD and Lung Cancer.

Respiratory medicine looks after medical inpatients - General Respiratory and General Medical, as well as cystic fibrosis inpatients.

The respiratory department also run the hospital’s medical High Dependency Unit (MADU) and has close links with Intensive Care. Patients on MADU include after a range of acutely unwell patients including those requiring non-invasive ventilator support.

The Out-patient Respiratory Service

• General respiratory clinics
• Lung Cancer clinic
• Specialist TB service
• Sleep and ventilation including home NIV service
• Airways disease
• Pleural disease
• ILD clinics
• CF clinics
  
  

Procedures

• 1 bronchoscopy list per week
• 1 EBUS list per week
• Medical Thoracoscopy
• 3 Pleural lists per week using US guidance including long term tunnelled pleural catheters.
  
  

We are seeking a third respiratory registrar to join this dynamic team.

Education is very important at Frimley and every trainee has an Educational and Clinical Supervisor to support them during their time at Frimley Park Hospital. As a trainee you will have access to a portfolio and will be given support over the year to build your CV. Teaching sessions are run throughout the week including X-Ray meeting, Respiratory Teaching and Grand Round.

Person specification

Audit

Essential criteria

• Quality and Audit experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrate active audits and outcomes
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MRCP Parts 1 and 2
• Full GMC with Licence to practice
• MBBCH or equivalent Degree + Paces
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Higher Degree e.g. Masters or Doctorate
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Completeion of 2 years foundation programme
• 1 year NHS experience at ST3 level
• Experience of on call duties
• Advanced Clinical, Leadership and Management skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of a portfolio of Audit / Quality Improvement projects
• Evidence of Publications / Presentations
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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