Consultant Respiratory Physician (ILD)

Provide care to patients being managed by the ILD service as per their job plan. This will involve planning investigations, undertaking diagnostic procedures and formulating appropriate management plans for both routine and emergency management of patients.

Participate in MDT presentations, discussions and outcomes management.

Assist with recruiting patients to clinical trials, tissue banking and research methodology.

The post holder will also be encouraged to submit work / attend national / international meetings in Thoracic Medicine

Participate in the consultant of the week rota covering referrals, phoneline queries and caring for ILD inpatients.

To share responsibility for the training of specialty trainees, clinical fellows and medical students in conjunction with consultant colleagues, ensuring that College and local requirements are met.

Royal Papworth Hospital is seeking a Consultant to join our Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) service within the Department of Respiratory Medicine. The Interstitial Lung Disease service opened in 2006 but has significantly grown since then. It has been recognised as a Specialist ILD Centre by NHS England since 2017. The service has approximately 1,400 new referrals each year and there are over 2,000 patients undergoing active follow up by the team. Patients within the service have a variety of lung diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, familial pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, pulmonary fibrosis related to auto-immune diseases (systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, Sjgren's syndrome) and cystic lung diseases.

The ILD service is a part of the Thoracic Directorate and the post-holder will work as part of the team of Chest Physicians within Thoracic Services., Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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