Senior Clinical Fellow in Respiratory Transplant

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 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.