Consultant Respiratory & General Internal medicine
This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic and enthusiastic team who believe in leading from the frontline with the aim of providing outstanding care to our community and investing in the well‑being and development of our people.
This is a replacement post for a Consultant Respiratory physician with a specialist interest in interstitial lung disease.
We take pride in being a very functional and supportive department with a clear vision to provide the best respiratory care possible to our patients. We would welcome candidates with a defined sub‑specialty expertise in interstitial lung disease but also those candidates prepared to develop this as their sub‑specialty area of expertise.
Please note the simulation date is the 14th July 2026 and the interview date is the 30th July 2026.
Main duties of the job
This is a replacement 10 PA post for a Consultant Respiratory physician at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, with a sub‑speciality interest in ILD. The job will comprise a mixture of inpatient care and outpatient clinics along with day case bronchoscopy and pleural lists (depending on candidate needs). Successful applicants will be supported in developing the service according to their experience, in particular, expanding the service with an ILD CNS and involvement with Oxford and the evolving anti‑fibrotic service. There will be considerable opportunity to be involved in service development, participation in clinical research and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
About us
Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading runs out of our own self‑contained department for clinics with full respiratory physiology support. We provide consultant clinics and community diagnostics in Newbury, Bracknell and Henley. We have an inpatient unit with 50 beds, including eight beds within a Respiratory Support Unit. We also have a purpose built pleural procedure room on the ward for elective and non‑elective pleural lists.
RBH is a cancer centre with a weekly MDT including thoracic radiologists, lung oncologists, pathologists and clinical nurse specialists. Inpatient and elective thoracic surgery is provided by Guy's Hospital with a surgeon attending the weekly MDT meeting. Radiotherapy and Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy is provided on‑site.
The lung cancer clinic takes place weekly in the respiratory out patient department with the lung oncologists, CNS and surgeon running clinics alongside the physicians. There are 2 bronchoscopy lists each week with bronchoscopy and EBUS provided. There is a dedicated pleural procedures room on the ward with a dedicated respiratory ultrasound machine, where both day case chest drain, indwelling pleural catheter insertion, pleural aspirations and US guided pleural and lymph node biopsies are performed, along with IP pleural cases. We have a pleural clinical nurse specialist along with a physician associate who support these lists and undertake pleural procedures independently.
Job responsibilities
Please see enclosed Consultant job information pack for further details and information.
Activity will be based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading with out‑patient clinics at spoke sites (currently Townlands, Henley and WBCH). There is the opportunity in discussion to hold a clinic at an alternative spoke site. Specific responsibilities will include the following, although there is flexibility in this that can be discussed upon appointment:
* 2 x weekly general clinics, 2 x weekly ILD clinics, one of which includes hot slots to review deteriorating patients or those with a flare (clinics are cancelled when on‑call for general medicine and when covering respiratory inpatients, with cross‑cover provided by colleagues as needed)
* Running the monthly ILD MDT
* Attendance at the monthly rheumatology MDT
* Attendance at the Oxford ILD MDT
* Participation in the bronchoscopy rota
* Triage and review of incoming referrals
Inpatients and on‑call
* Managing the specialist respiratory inpatient ward and referrals on a rotational basis (currently 4 weeks in 18). Outpatient commitments are cancelled when covering inpatients.
* Contribution to the respiratory of the day (ROD) rota again outpatient commitments are cancelled when acting as respiratory of the day.
* Weekend cover of the respiratory ward; 08.30-14.30 reviewing new patients to the ward, patients on the RSU, sick patients flagged by the nursing staff. Resident cover (2 resident doctors) is provided from 08.30-17.30 for the respiratory ward at the weekend.
* Supervision and education of ward junior doctors and final year medical students, with on‑the‑job clinical teaching
* Participation in the general medicine on call. Full time equivalent frequency is as below.
o 1:22 weekdays
+ 15.00 -22.30, on‑site, including post‑take reviews
+ overnight- non‑residential
o The general medical on‑call weekend rota is also at a 1 in 22 frequency, on site 0800-20.00 both Saturday and Sunday with overnight non‑residential on call
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Full registration with the GMC and Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom or equivalent
* Higher degree e.g. PhD/ MD submitted/awarded
Clinical Experience
* Fully trained in Respiratory and GiM with knowledge of all aspects of general respiratory medicine and patient care
* Experience of working in the NHS at SpR or Consultant level
* Previous responsibility for clinical governance and GMC Good Medical Practice
* Fully trained in Bronchoscopy, EBUS, and thoracoscopy
* Independent in USS guided biopsy including pleural and lymph node
Personal Qualities
* Able to abide by the Trust CARE Values; Compassionate, Aspirational, Respectful and Excellence
* Work collaboratively with multi‑disciplinary team, understanding each others unique role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Consultant/Clinical Lead for Respiratory Medicine
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