Clinical Fellow

This is a registrar-level post in transplant medicine for a respiratory physician; the successful applicants will join a dynamic team with an international reputation. The Harefield hospital is a specialist cardiothoracic Centre that with services including interventional cardiology, thoracic and cardiac surgery.

The post holders will undertake an active role in inpatient care and participate in outpatient clinics as well as the EWTD-compliant on-call rota. They will gain experience in assessment and management of end-stage lung disease, intensive care, post-operative rehabilitation, immunosuppression, assessment and management of opportunistic infections, interventional bronchoscopy as well as team training using the simulation training facility in the StaR post-graduate centre at Harefield

The Middle Grade doctors are Specialist Registrars are responsible jointly, under the direction of the consultants, for the dedicated Out-Patients and wards for patients in the Transplant directorate.

They are responsible for the supervision and teaching of the other junior Specialist Registrars and SHO's in their duties. He/she will normally be required to attend 2/3 outpatient clinics per week, ward rounds of firms to which they have specific responsibility and weekly directorate meetings.

Royal Brompton & Harefield Clinical Group is the largest postgraduate specialist heart and lung centre in the United Kingdom.

A fundamental strength of the hospital is close collaboration between the various clinical specialities which cover all aspects of heart and lung disease and collaboration on basic science research with the National Heart and Lung Institute which is part of the medical school of Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine. The hospital enjoys first rate diagnostic and clinical support services. Services are organised into grouped disease pathways reflecting the key clinical services provided and ensuring a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.

Harefield Hospital was founded during the First World War and was used as an Australian Hospital until the end of the War. It then became a TB Sanatorium and was rebuilt in 1937. It is now a Regional Centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery and a national centre for heart and lung transplantation.

The Middle Grade doctors are Specialist Registrars are responsible jointly, under the direction of the consultants, for the dedicated Out-Patients and wards for patients in the Transplant directorate.

They are responsible for the supervision and teaching of the other junior Specialist Registrars and SHO's in their duties. He/she will normally be required to attend 2/3 outpatient clinics per week, ward rounds of firms to which they have specific responsibility and weekly directorate meetings.

The Specialist Registrars provide a second in line contact when On Call on a 1 in 7 rota resident until 9pm daily with availability by telephone thereafter.

The post is a busy one and the Specialty Registrar will obtain wide experience in the management of all types of end stage heart/lung failure, indications for thoracic organ transplantation, ICU care and long term follow up including immunosuppression, atypical infections and VAD.

The Specialist Registrar will be actively involved in the teaching CMT trainees and multidisciplinary teaching sessions, including Simulation Technology enhanced learning.