Clinical Fellow in Respiratory

Overview

This is a one-year clinical fellowship post designed to provide the clinical fellow with the unique opportunity to work with the lung cancer clinicians  role will involve supporting the lung cancer screening service through the Screening review meetings (SRM) and the post holder will be responsible for enacting the outcomes from these meetings. The fellow will support the clinical services so that they can understand the clinical pathways and be immersed in the service.

They will be expected to attend and support the MDTs and do clinics. They will take part in one consultant led EBUS list and one consultant led pleural intervention list per week. They will be supported by the lung cancer clinicians and work closely with the clinical nurse specialist teams. The post would be well-suited to a respiratory trainee as an out-of-programme experience during specialist training, or as a post-CCT fellowship.

If the post-holder is applying as a post-CCT fellow, they will also have the option of contributing to the acute medical take at SMH at consultant level, including providing respiratory input into newly admitted acute medical patients.

The post will provide the fellow with the opportunity to work with the clinical lung cancer team at imperial and gain experience across the whole lung cancer pathway, at the same time as working within the new lung cancer screening service which is a collaboration between Inhealth, The Joint thoracic service (RMH and RBHT) and Imperial. The post will be held within Imperial.

A significant proportion of patients requiring intervention are on a lung cancer diagnostic pathway, and the Trust is currently working towards delivering the National Optimal Lung Cancer Pathway. The fellow will contribute towards this work by attending the weekly lung cancer MDT, contributing to a weekly lung cancer clinic as well as weekly respiratory intervention lists.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location. As part of our continued response to Covid
19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Full job description and person specification is attached.

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the lead for respiratory intervention.

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