Senior Clinical Fellow in Pleural Intervention / Pleural Disease

The post holder will work directly with Consultant Respiratory Physicians, two advanced nurse practitioners and senior nursing team to provide support to the pleural ambulatory (PAU), pleural clinics and in patient pleural service as well as assessing and treating patients identified with pleural disease in A&E and the Medical Assessment Units to promptly start the diagnostic and therapeutic pathway. The Pleural Ambulatory Unit (PAU) based in the Royal Gwent Hospital provides 4 rapid access pleural procedures lists a week. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to train in advanced pleural intervention (thoracoscopy, large bore drains, tunnelled indwelling pleural catheters and management of pleural fistula) as well as gain experience in lung cancer. Training in thoracic ultrasound (primary operator level - BTS guidelines) will be encouraged depending of the training requirements of the successful applicant. You will also support the pleural
outpatient clinic held at the Chest Clinic at St Woolos Hospital as well as the weekly pleural MDT.
The successful applicant will be expected to take part in local and national audits as well as research project where we already have links with Pleural Units at Bristol and Oxford as well as take part in the lung cancer trials.
The successful applicant will be part of the Faculty for the twice yearly ABHB thoracic US course and will be part of the organising group for the yearly All Wales Pleural seminar, The post has been accredited by the Royal College of Physicians; the applicant will receive the same training and experience in line with existing specialist registrar training in Respiratory Medicine. The posts would ideally suit someone who has completed the PACES examination, either SpR in respiratory medicine level or IMT grades with some experience in Respiratory Medicine and wishes to look at developing a sub specialist interest in pleural procedures and pleural disease. However, this is not essential and the work commitments of the team will be reviewed and adjusted to that of a more junior or more senior level but both of the potential job timetables provide excellent experience in Pleural Respiratory Medicine.
You will be expected to participate in the acute general medicine on call rota.
This position involves Regulated Activity with adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
+ Enhanced check with barred list information, including
- an adults and children's barred list check
Applicants must hold or be eligible to hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC.

The Grange University Hospital is a busy new modern specialist and intensive care centre, where the brand new top of the range thoracoscopy service is based (endoscopy unit). Pleural clinics are based in St Woolos chest clinic. The Pleural Ambulatory Unit (PAU) is based in the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport.

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
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