Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory Medicine
- Grade
- Senior Clinical Fellowship in Specialist Respiratory Medicine
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-MED4429
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £55,329 - £63,152 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Respiratory Medicine
Senior Clinical Fellowship in Specialist Respiratory Medicine
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Senior Clinical Fellow in Specialist Respiratory Medicine
Royal Brompton Hospital
We have a vacancies for Clinical Fellowship's in Specialist Respiratory Medicine in the department of Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital site. This post is for 6 months. We have been successfully running these posts for a number of years and many of our previous fellows have successfully gone on to consultant appointments.
The Clinical Fellows in Specialist Respiratory Medicine are responsible, under the direction of the consultants, for delivering inpatient care, day case activity and out-patient clinics for patients referred to and followed up by the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
The role forms part of the Senior Registrar rota and will be attached primarily to our Interstitial lung disease service. There are ample opportunities to become involved in our numerous research projects, as well as to gain unique clinical skills in advanced and sub specialist respiratory medicine. The post holders will also have the opportunity to work with the senior clinical education lead Dr Alanna Hare, to deliver simulation-based education and/or work on a quality improvement project.
Main duties of the job
Main duties include
To acquaint him/herself with details of patient management in discussion with the consultants and ensure their efficient execution.
To ensure that good communications are maintained with all medical colleagues, e.g. anaesthetists, cardiologists, nursing staff and paramedical departments such as physiotherapists, radiographers and ancillary staff, to the benefit of the patient.
To ensure other Specialty Registrars and Consultants are kept informed regarding alteration in the condition of any of their patients.
To ensure that all in-patient notes are kept up to date and tidy.
Supervise the junior clinical fellow staff (SHOs) in the performance of their duties.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is a leading Respiratory and Cardiothoracic Tertiary Centre.
The Department of Respiratory Medicine at RBH is home to the largest cystic fibrosis centre in the UK, treating both adults and children, often treating patients from childhood well into adulthood. We participate in national and international research with the aim to continually improve the management of CF and the lives of patients.
The asthma and allergy care group has a national and international reputation for clinical excellence, innovative research, and the development of novel asthma and allergy diagnostic and treatment pathways. The teams in the asthma and allergy care group provide an immediately accessible local service for asthma, allergy and occupational lung disorders.
Our teams run the largest interstitial lung disease clinic in the UK, with expertise in the specialist management of a wide range of these interstitial and rare lung diseases, such as Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis and drug-induced lung disease.
Royal Brompton Hospital has an international reputation for its work with patients experiencing sleep disorders, and for its pioneering work in domiciliary ventilation (providing respiratory support at home). Our service for sleep-related problems is one of the largest in Europe.
You will be working with an outstanding team and supportive team of clinical and non clinical staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- To acquaint him/herself with details of patient management in discussion with the consultants and ensure their efficient execution.
- To ensure that good communications are maintained with all medical colleagues, e.g. anaesthetists, cardiologists, nursing staff and paramedical departments such as physiotherapists, radiographers and ancillary staff, to the benefit of the patient.
- To ensure other Specialty Registrars and Consultants are kept informed regarding alteration in the condition of any of their patients.
- To ensure that all in-patient notes are kept up to date and tidy.
- Supervise the junior clinical fellow staff (SHOs) in the performance of their duties.
Duties - Professional
- To take a history, examine and record all findings of all patients admitted under the Consultant’s care.
- Carry out and arrange all relevant investigations.
- To see and examine all patients under the care of the Consultant concerned.
- To attend and assist at out-patient sessions as per timetable of firm.
- To arrange for the transfer of patients to other hospitals or discharge home, with a discharge summary on the clinical episode.
- To be responsible for the care of all/any respiratory patients on the wards.
- To dictate all discharge summaries within 24hrs and ensure that these are forwarded to the patients, General Practitioner and/or hospital of transfer as soon as possible after the patient is discharged and complete letters to General Practitioners.
10 To cross cover, in conjunction with other Specialty Registrars when one Specialty Registrar is absent or on annual or study leave and to ensure that the duties and responsibilities of the absent colleague are carried out.
- To keep the Consultants informed of any patient who is giving cause for concern.
- To communicate with patient’s relative on the progress of the patients.
- To be available for emergency calls to ITU and other parts of the hospital, if required i.e. for cardiac arrest.
- To participate in research projects that may already be in progress.
- To participate in lecturing to other staff if required, e.g. nurses.
- To participate in the Medical Audit Programme as required.
- To accept that occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances may occur, and to respond to the needs of the service when they arise.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience within respiratory medicine
- Evidence of achievement of Foundation and IMT competences or equivalent
Skills Knowledge and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Audit
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and Research
Other
Essential criteria
- Specific interest in management of respiratory patients and commitment continuous education
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Alanna Hare
- Job title
- Consultant Physician, Education Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Alanna Hare, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at [email protected]
Alternatively, please contact our Medical Recruitment Team [email protected]
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