Clinical Fellow in Respiratory Infection & Adult Cystic Fibrosis

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Administrative and secretarial support will be provided for these tasks.

Supervised training will be provided to the post holder as required. Training requirements will be reviewed at the start and mid-way though post. It is envisaged that the post-holder will gain significant clinical experience in all aspects of adult CF management, as well as experience in the management of complex non-CF bronchiectasis and complex lung infection. It will be necessary for the post holder to work closely with the rotational clinical specialty registrars (or equivalent) and to work with them flexibly to ensure adequate middle grade cover.

Salary level will depend on experience and will attract a Band 1A supplement for participation in the respiratory registrar on-call rota.  This is currently a 1 week in 7 contribution to the respiratory ward rota based at the JR site and provision of night care around 1:52 weeks

Teaching/Research

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital Trust, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. There may be opportunities for the post-holder to take more of a leadership role in the organisation and delivery of respiratory undergraduate teaching in Oxford, depending on their interests and experience.

There is also potential for the post-holder to become involved in research. The Oxford Centre of Respiratory Medicine (OCRM) has major strengths in both clinical trials of respiratory disease and basic science research into the biology of lung infection. The Oxford Respiratory Clinical Trials Unit, led by Prof Naj Rahman, has an established record of delivering practice-changing randomised controlled trials in several areas of respiratory medicine, including landmark trials of pleural infection (e.g. N Eng J Med 2005; N Eng J Med 2011). The lung infection service makes a significant contribution to training of specialist respiratory registrars in the Oxford deanery and CF team members have educational interests with international impact (e.g. Cochrane reviews; authorship of textbooks; editor-in-chief of international BMJ respiratory journal etc). Academic outputs are also strong, e.g. active participation in clinical trials; multiple major publications in world-leading scientific and medical journals; national and international academic and clinical awards to CF team members.

Clinical Governance

The post-holder will participate in clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust and external accrediting bodies.

Personal and Professional Development

The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trusts.   Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.  

Management

The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust’s management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trusts are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trusts.   He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his /her patients and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of the lead clinician and/or directorate chair