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., 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.

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.