Consultant Respiratory Physician

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

The job also entails inpatient care as part of the respiratory megafirm, looking after approximately 50 inpatients with seven other colleagues. The consultants currently rotate on and off the wards, doing a ward block and weeks on HDU. During the ward block (respiratory ward and the HDU); we provide daily consultant input, in-reach into the medical assessment unit and emergency department and the provision of inpatient consultations and telephone advice to GPs for admission avoidance. The respiratory megafirm has 2 SpRs, 2 IMT 3s 7 SHOs and 3 FY1s.
There is a dedicated 12 bedded medical high-dependency and NIV unit, where patients are under the care of the respiratory team. There is also an general ICU and HDU which is run as a closed unit, with specialist input as required. There is a dedicated medical day-unit for out-patient pleural procedures, line insertion, day-case biopsies, commencement on intravenous antibiotics and out-patient support for patients with long-term chest drains. The specialist nurses (cancer, TB, non-invasive ventilation and sleep, airways disease, CF and ILD) participate in specialist out-patient clinics, review in-patients and assist with discharge planning.
There are also community respiratory care teams based in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire who provide out-patient support. Approximately 350 bronchoscopies are carried out per year including 100 endobronchial ultrasound procedures. We also carry out thoracic ultrasound and provide sub-regional support for tunnelled chest drain placement. We have recently started a medical thoracoscopy service.
We have an ambulatory care pathway for management of pleural effusions and have 2-3 pleural disease clinics a week to support this.The lung cancer multidisciplinary team comprises chest physicians, a radiology team, an oncologist based at St Lukes Cancer Centre, but who run clinics and oversee chemotherapy at Frimley Park, and Thoracic surgical team based at Royal Brompton Hospital. The post holders core skills include inpatient and outpatient care for respiratory and general medical patients. The basis of the post is 8 programmed activities, of this the on-call duties are recognised at 1.5 PA and this is reviewed periodically. There are 6.5 fixed sessions with the remainder being allocated to supporting activities.
The post holder will be expected to have commitment to teaching junior doctors, nurses including specialist nurses and medical students. The job plan below is intended to serve as a broad indication of the duties of the post and the successful candidate will be required to monitor a workload including on call

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