Senior LED in CCT Interventional Fellowship | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,329 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2024 |
| Location: | Wythenshawe, M23 9LT |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6544154/349-WTWA-6544154 |
Summary
Post CCT interventional fellowship / Senior Clinic Fellow
MFT Wythenshawe Thoracic oncology unit has an opportunity for two enthusiastic, self-motivated Post CCT or senior trainees, to join our expanding team. The role will give the candidates the opportunity to hone their skills in interventional bronchoscopy, pleural disease and lung cancer screening.
Posts are available with immediate start dates.
Successful applicants will work with the Thoracic Oncology department in a team of 5 fellows, gaining experience in the rapid cancer clinic, and procedures including linear EBUS, AFI bronchoscopy, radial probe EBUS, Navigational bronchoscopy and soon to be robotic bronchoscopy. There will also be opportunity for experience in pleural procedures with local anaesthetic thoracoscopy, indwelling pleural catheters, chest drains and ambulatory pleural vents.
The post holder will work in the rapid HSC clinics, pleural clinics, and support specialist ward referrals. There will be the opportunity to undertake research projects and present at conferences. This will all help build their portfolio prior to taking up a definitive Consultant post with an interest in Pleural Disease/Intervention/Lung Cancer. Equally registrars in training who wish to increase their expertise of procedural skills whilst consolidating their respiratory training.
The posts will be focused on all the elements involved in the management of lung cancer pathways, from early detection with screening to management of complex lung cancer and pleural disease. They will offer the post holder the opportunity to further develop interventional skills including endobronchial skills with other pleural and minimally invasive thoracic techniques.
In addition to the interventional procedures the post-holders will be involved with the full diagnostic pathways from screening triage, outcoming of screening investigations, rapid access lung cancer clinics, Cancer and Pleural ward consult service, MDT, including specialist pleural MDT, teaching, research & Audit and service development.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Monday 16 Sep 2024
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