Clinical Fellow in Respiratory in Newark on Trent

The Respiratory Department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals currently has three base wards for in-patients at King's Mill Hospital with an eight-bedded respiratory support unit to allow acute and chronic non-invasive ventilation. Respiratory outpatient clinics are held at King's Mill and Newark Hospitals as well in the Ashfield and Mansfield Community Hospitals. As well as general Respiratory out-patient clinics, we have also sub-specialist clinics for Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Disease, Sleep/Ventilators, COPD, TB and Bronchiectasis. The Respiratory Department sees approximately 2600 new outpatients per year and over 6400 follow up patients. There are bronchoscopy sessions at both King's Mill Hospital and in Newark. We also perform Endobronchial ultrasound, Thoracoscopy and indwelling pleural catheters at King's Mill. We support pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen services at three sites across mid-Nottinghamshire. The Respiratory department has excellent clinical support from 10 respiratory physiologists with access to full pulmonary function tests, exhaled nitric oxide, exercise tests and muscle strength tests. There are also facilities for in-patient and out-patient sleep studies, with 4000 patients under follow-up for sleep disorders. The Respiratory department also organises the community oxygen assessment programme., Please see the full detailed job description and person specification for the main responsibilities of this role.

• Must have completed at least 4 years full time postgraduate training at least 1 of which must be in Medicine specialties, Current experience of working within the NHS
• Able to appraise research
• Understanding of Evidence Based Medicine
• Understanding of the principles of medical audit and clinical governance
• Completed at least one audit project related to General Medicine, Communication skills - to have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely & competently
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
• Caring attitude to patients
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and cooperate with all staff
• Professional attitude towards work
• Prepared to work flexibly
• Ability to organise and manage priorities, Self-motivated
• Familiarity with IT and computer skills

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.