Role Overview
This post will provide sub‑specialty experience in Interstitial Lung Disease and would be suited to a Respiratory trainee as out‑of‑programme experience during specialist training or as post‑CCT experience. The post is based in the Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Oxford Interstitial Lung Disease Service is a designated regional specialist centre and an anti‑fibrotic prescribing centre, delivering comprehensive care to the Oxfordshire and Thames Valley region.
Responsibilities
* Play a key role, under supervision, in the care and diagnosis of patients with Interstitial Lung Disease, with the support of the ILD MDT.
* Support the clinical administrative responsibilities associated with the delivery of a regional ILD service.
* Participate in departmental education meetings and teaching within the Oxford Centre of Respiratory Medicine.
* Be involved in research projects relevant to interstitial lung disease.
Team and Support
The ILD team comprises five dedicated ILD consultants, four ILD specialist nurses, an ILD clinical support worker, two specialist pharmacists, an ILD MDT coordinator, two ILD secretaries and two administrative assistants. The ILD service is supported by three radiologists and two pathologists with an interest in ILD, academic and clinical rheumatologists, research nurses, and, when required, three on‑site thoracic surgeons.
Community respiratory nurses provide funded ILD community palliative and psychosocial support to end‑stage ILD cases. Allied support to the ILD service includes physiotherapy outpatient support for pacing advice and breathlessness control, the home oxygen assessment service providing ambulatory assessments and community oxygen follow‑up, direct access to pulmonary rehabilitation (Oxford city and more than five county sites), and access to a senior respiratory pharmacist with an ILD interest. Further support is provided by a comprehensive lung function laboratory, and a BAL differential cell count service. The OUH Trust biologics unit facility delivers cytotoxic, immunosuppressant and biologics therapies.
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