Consultant Respiratory Physician | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

This job is for a consultant respiratory physician. . It is a cross -site role and the departments are hugely supportive and happy to support new CCT holders in gaining skills and experience to help with future substantive applications. Ideally applicants would be able to start as soon as possible, but later and earlier start dates would be considered.

The appointee will provide both inpatient and outpatient care of general respiratory and general internal medicine patients; supervise care of the patients on the medical High Dependency Unit 1 week in 7, as well as supporting the team with the bronchoscopy lists and pleural procedures.

The job is a full-time post comprising of ten programmed activities, with supervision of the junior doctors and specialist nurses.

There will also be an on-call commitment to cover the general medical weekday rota (1pm to 9pm and non-resident overnight) on a 1 in 20 basis and respiratory weekend days (8am - 5pm) across FHFT.

We are seeking a Consultant Respiratory Physician. This is a full-time appointment with a commitment to the general weekday medical rota (approx 1:14) and the respiratory weekend rota 1 in 8.

The appointee would be expected to undertake on average:

§ 2 general respiratory outpatient clinics in clinic weeks

§ 2 specialist clinic - TB/CF/ILD /Sleep/Cancer

§ Weekly procedures list (bronchoscopy, EBUS or pleural procedures depending on experience / competence)

§ 1 in 7 week ward commitment

§ 1 in 7 week respiratory HDU commitment

§ Triage of ERS referrals

There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.

The job also entails inpatient care as part of the respiratory megafirm, looking after approximately 50 inpatients with 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.

The respiratory megafirm has 3 SpRs, 2 IMT 3s 7 SHOs and 3 FY1s. There is a dedicated 16 bedded medical high-dependency and NIV unit, where patients are under the care of the respiratory team. There is also a general ICU 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 and ILD) participate in specialist out-patient clinics, review in-patients and assist with discharge planning. There are also community respiratory care teams that work in both the in-patient and out-patent settings covering Windsor, maidenhead and Berkshire.

Approximately 200 bronchoscopies are carried out per year and 200 endobronchial ultrasound procedures. We also carry out thoracic ultrasound and provide sub-regional support for tunnelled chest drain placement.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 Mount Vernon Hospital, but who run clinics and oversee chemotherapy at Wexham Park, and Thoracic surgical team based at Harefield and & The Royal Brompton Hospital.

The post holder's core skills include inpatient and outpatient care for respiratory and general medical patients.