Senior Training Fellow - Respiratory Medicine

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An exciting opportunity has arisen at the University Hospital of North Midlands to join the Respiratory Medicine team working at Royal Stoke University Hospital. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to provide care and diagnostic services for patients presenting with Respiratory illnesses.

The successful candidates will complement the 21 Respiratory Consultant’s and 10 SpRs (training and non-training) expertise working in this speciality. The department provides both an inpatient, outpatient and day case Sleep & Ventilation Service, Interstitial Lung Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Asthma, Lung Cancer, Pleural Procedures and General Respiratory services across both our sites.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to provide care and diagnostic services for patients presenting with Respiratory illnesses.

The Respiratory Department is the regional centre for interstitial lung disease and non-invasive ventilation. The Respiratory Department consists of 4 Respiratory Wards with 115 inpatient beds, including a 26 bedded Acute Lung Unit with 16 NIV beds, 2 Respiratory Physiology Departments over 2 sites offering a range of lung function tests.

**Night shifts and on call’s are included in this rota and applications for MTI can be considered**

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Role Summary
This post is not recognised as a formal training slot. However, the training opportunities will be the same as the other registrar level doctors within Respiratory Medicine

Key Areas/Tasks

To participate in the provision of general and specialist respiratory services (inpatient and outpatient)
To assist in ward management including electronic discharges
To contribute to the training of junior medical staff
To assist in the undertaking of full clinical computerised audit within the department.