Consultant Respiratory & General Internal medicine

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic and enthusiastic team who believe in leading from the frontline with the aim of providing outstanding care to our community and investing in the well-being and development of our people.

This is a replacement post for a Consultant Respiratory physician with a specialist interest in interstitial lung disease.

We take pride in being a very functional and supportive department with a clear vision to provide the best respiratory care possible to our patients. We would welcome candidates with a defined sub-specialty expertise in interstitial lung disease but also those candidates prepared to develop this as their sub-specialty area of expertise.

Please note the simulation date is the 14th July 2026 and the interview date is the 30th July 2026.

Main duties of the job

This is a replacement 10 PA post for a Consultant Respiratory physician at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, with a sub-speciality interest in ILD.  The job will comprise a mixture of inpatient care and outpatient clinics along with day case bronchoscopy and pleural lists (depending on candidate needs).  Successful applicants will be supported in developing the service according to their experience, in particular, expanding the service with an ILD CNS and involvement with Oxford and the evolving anti-fibrotic service. There will be considerable opportunity to be involved in service development, participation in clinical research and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see enclosed Consultant job information pack for further details and information.

Activity will be based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading with out-patient clinics at spoke sites (currently Townlands, Henley and WBCH).  There is the opportunity in discussion to hold a clinic at an alternative spoke site.  Specific responsibilities will include the following, although there is flexibility in this that can be discussed upon appointment:

Outpatient activities:

• 2 x weekly general clinics, 2 x weekly ILD clinics, one of which includes ‘hot’ slots to review deteriorating patients or those with a flare (clinics are cancelled when on-call for general medicine and when covering respiratory inpatients, with cross-cover provided by colleagues as needed)
• Running the monthly ILD MDT
• Attendance at the monthly rheumatology MDT
• Attendance at the Oxford ILD MDT
• Participation in the bronchoscopy rota
• Triage and review of incoming referrals

Inpatients and on-call

• Managing the specialist respiratory inpatient ward and referrals on a rotational basis (currently 4 weeks in 18). Outpatient commitments are cancelled when covering inpatients.
• Contribution to the respiratory of the day (ROD) rota – again outpatient commitments are cancelled when acting as respiratory of the day.
• Weekend cover of the respiratory ward; 08.30-14.30 – reviewing new patients to the ward, patients on the RSU, sick patients flagged by the nursing staff. Resident cover (2 resident doctors) is provided from 08.30-17.30 for the respiratory ward at the weekend.
• Supervision and education of ward junior doctors and final year medical students, with on-the-job clinical teaching
• Participation in the general medicine on call. Full time equivalent frequency is as below. 1:22 weekdays 15.00 -22.30, on-site, including post-take reviews overnight- non-residential The general medical on-call weekend rota is also at a 1 in 22 frequency, on site 0800-20.00 both Saturday and Sunday with overnight non-residential on call
• 1:22 weekdays 15.00 -22.30, on-site, including post-take reviews overnight- non-residential
• 15.00 -22.30, on-site, including post-take reviews
• overnight- non-residential
• The general medical on-call weekend rota is also at a 1 in 22 frequency, on site 0800-20.00 both Saturday and Sunday with overnight non-residential on call