This post is for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Respiratory Medicine. This is a full time, permanent post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
Successful candidates will help us build on our excellent reputation for delivering high quality patient care with the opportunity to work with a range of respiratory inpatients including those requiring acute NIV, as well as the opportunity to gain valuable experience in respiratory outpatient clinics and procedures including bronchoscopy and pleural procedures.
The respiratory department has a total of 30 inpatient beds on one ward; 14b. The physician appointed to this post will deliver daily sessions of care to respiratory inpatients on the wards above on a rotational basis. Ward 14b houses the respiratory support unit for up to 6 patients and can provide respiratory support including, NIV, CPAP, and high flow nasal oxygen therapy.
The unit is supported by a well-trained respiratory nurse team and is consultant lead 7 days a week. In the Respiratory department model of care 4 full time Respiratory Consultants are available Monday-Friday to provide inpatient and outpatient care.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
National Preceptorship Accreditation for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
The appointee will work as part of the Respiratory Multi-Disciplinary Team across inpatient and elective pathways mainly focusing on the respiratory wards,
The successful applicant will be expected to:
Be responsible for the day to day management of patients on the respiratory ward including NIV management.
Participate in providing our inpatient respiratory referral service as well as pleural procedures
Run designated registrar lists at respiratory outpatient clinics with consultant supervision (including Rapid
Access Lung Cancer clinics).
Have the opportunity to attend and participate in regular bronchoscopy and pleural sessions
Participate various MDT meetings