Senior Clinical Fellow - Respiratory Medicine

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Fellow to join our General medicine team at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, based within Respiratory Medicine. This is a fixed term role for 12 months.

The successful candidate will be placed in the Respiratory Medicine Directorate with clinical duties covering the Respiratory inpatient wards, Respiratory Assessment Unit and outpatient respiratory clinics with commitments to participate in the day, weekend, twilight and night medical registrar on call rota.

The post-holders will be expected to support the continuing care of medical in-patients on the respiratory inpatient wards and participate on the medical registrar on call rota with appropriate banding. A Clinical Supervisor will be provided and attendance at the Respiratory Medicine Departmental teaching is expected.

The post-holder will be expected to participate in the Division of Medicine Grand Rounds and audit meetings and will be welcome to participate in any available further training and study opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• Attending ward rounds
• Attending MDT meetings
• Attend a variety of general and subspecialty respiratory clinics
• Supervision of junior doctors
• Undertaking routine clinical procedures on wards and pleural procedures on RAU
• Seeing ward referrals
• Opportunity to gain experience in bronchoscopy/EBUS/medical thoracoscopy/chest ultrasound
• Follow up management of acute inpatients
• Prescribing
• Discharge summaries
• Contributing to quality improvement across the pathway
• Working as equivalent to junior registrar level on call

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances, in discussion with the post holder. This role profile is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only.  The post holder will need to be flexible in developing the role and in initial and on-going discussions with the designated manager.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description for detailed information about the role. You can also check the Person Specification to see what qualification, skills and experience are required for this role.