Specialist Clinical Fellow - Respiratory | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	14 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£65,048 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	13 September 2025
Location:	Frimley, GU16 7UJ
Company:	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7393627/151-FPHCCF-30

Summary

This job is for a Clinical Fellow in Respiratory to provide care for patients for designated Consultant/team at wardlevel, andreceiving support/ training from both Seniortrainees and Consultant staff.


It provides excellent experience in respiratory and general medicine and prepares trainees for applications for specialist training.


Training and supervision in respiratory medicine (bronchoscopy, EBUS, pleural procedures, thoracoscopy, NIV(both inpatient and outpatient), Cystic Fibrosis, Lung Cancer, TB, ILD)as per the requirements and skills of the individual, and the needs of the department.

We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.


Registrars areofferedspecialty training including sleep and ventilation, Cystic Fibrosis, Pleural disease and intervention, endoscopicbronchialultrasound (EBUS), TB and ILD. There are5 resident doctorson the ward at any one time. There is a daily consultant led board round, and twice weekly consultant ward rounds.The specific job plans may change but exposure and experience in all the previously mentioned subspecialties will still be possible.


On call


Registrars contribute to the medical registrar on callrotawhich includes normal working days, on call days, weekend days and nights. Thenightsshifts are in blocks of 3 or 4 nights followed by compensatory rest days.  Therotais EWTD and new contract compliant.  There are medical consultants on site doing post take ward rounds for the general medical patients from 08.00 to 21.00 each day.  A team of SHO grades, FY1s and Night Nurse Practitioners are present overnight.


Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Therespiratory departmentis a supportive and pro-active group of consultants.There are11respiratory consultants,2registrars,8SHOs and4FY1s. There are also specialist nurses in CF, COPD, TB, ILD and Lung Cancer.


Respiratory medicinelooks aftermedical inpatients -General Respiratory and General Medical, as well as cystic fibrosis inpatients.


The respiratory department also run the hospital’smedicalHigh Dependency Unit(MADU) and has close links with Intensive Care. Patients on MADU includeaftera range of acutely unwell patients including thoserequiringnon-invasiveventilator support.

The out-patient respiratory service:

• General respiratory clinics

• Lung Cancer clinic

• Specialist TB service

• Sleep and ventilation including home NIV service

• Airways disease

• Pleuraldisease

• ILDclinics

• CF clinics


Procedures:

• 1bronchoscopy listper week

• 1EBUSlistper week

• MedicalThoracoscopy


• 3 Pleural lists per week usingUS guidanceincluding longterm tunnelledpleuralcatheters.


We are seeking a third respiratory registrar to join this dynamic team.


Education isvery importantat Frimley and every trainee has an Educational and Clinical Supervisor to support them during their time at Frimley Park Hospital.As a trainee you will have access to a portfolio and will be given support over the year to build your CV. Teaching sessions are run throughout the week including X-Ray meeting, Respiratory Teaching and Grand Round.





This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025