Clinical Fellow in Sleep & Ventilation, Respiratory Medicine

Clinical Fellow in Sleep & Ventilation, Respiratory Medicine

NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow

Main area Sleep & Ventilation, Respiratory Medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow Contract 8 months (8 month fixed term contract) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job
-MRC-MS-7594094-S6-A

Site Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital Town Headington, Oxford Salary £65,048 - £73,992 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/02/2026 23:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence
and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

This post is a great opportunity to develop sub-specialty expertise in adult respiratory Sleep and Ventilation medicine, providing care for out-patients on home respiratory support, and contributing to departmental quality improvement projects and training in a strong clinical and academic environment. Outpatient activity includes sleep and ventilation clinics, day-unit assessment of patients under consideration of home NIV or cough-assist provision, reporting respiratory sleep studies, and providing specialist advice for in-patients using acute noninvasive ventilation.

The postholder will work with the Respiratory team providing in-patient care on the Osler Respiratory ward during Mon to Fri day-time blocks approximately once week in seven, plus an evening and weekend on-call commitment that is non-residential overnight. A substantial proportion of in-patients are on acute or home NIV, thereby providing experience across the full breadth of respiratory support for patients with ventilatory failure.

There are 2-3 sets of General Medical night duties per annum.

There is an active Departmental educational programme, with a weekly journal club, educational meeting and radiology MDT, in addition to case-based learning and development.

Specific duties include:

• Sleep and Ventilation outpatient clinics
• Day Case patient review for ventilator dependent or at-risk patients, and for those initiating home noninvasive ventilation or cough assistance
• Respiratory sleep study and oximetry reporting
• Management of non-face to face patient care
• Provision of specialist advice for Respiratory and General Medical patients on acute noninvasive ventilation
• Contribution towards undergraduate and postgraduate training in Sleep and Ventilation
• Contribution towards Service Development and Governance
• Contribution to current sleep research projects.

Administrative and secretarial support will be provided for these tasks. Appropriate supervised training will be provided to the post holder, with formal review at start and mid-way though post. It is envisaged that the post-holder will gain significant clinical experience in all aspects of adult Respiratory Sleep and Ventilation management. It will be necessary for the post holder to work closely with the rotational Specialist Registrars (or equivalent) and to work with them flexibly to ensure adequate middle grade cover.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this
Delivering Compassionate Excellence
and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH You Tube channel .