Junior Clinical Fellow in Respiratory Medicine

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

The respiratory department is a supportive and pro-active group of consultants. There are 10 respiratory consultants, 3 registrars, 7 SHOs and 3 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 up to 5 cystic fibrosis inpatients at one time.
The respiratory department also run the hospitals 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. There is a state of the art Post Graduate Education Centre with dedicated IT support and lunchtime catering facilities, and tea and coffee the rest of the day.
There are several consultants within the hospital who are PACES examiners and run PACES teaching within the hospital with the aim of helping junior doctors complete their post graduate exams. We have a strong and supportive audit department which supports local and regional audit. There is a hospital audit competition and coordinated directorate audits. In addition there is a strong research ethos in the hospital and we encourage all of our juniors to participate in research and submit abstracts to local, national and international meetings.
Four of the respiratory consultants have a PhD. The department supports trainees in development management skills. The respiratory consultants are involved in a range of committees including patient safety, morbidity and mortality reviews and infection control. The Medical Director and Clinical Director are both Respiratory Consultants.
Registrar Job Plans: There are 3 registrars who rotate every 4 months in each post 1, 2 and 3. Each post offers specialty training including sleep and ventilation, Cystic Fibrosis, Pleural disease and intervention, endoscopic bronchial ultrasound (EBUS), TB and ILD. There are 2-3 SHOs and 1-2 FY1s 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

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