Senior Clinical Fellow in Respiratory: Sponsorship Available

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The Respiratory Department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals currently has three base wards for in-patients at King’s Mill Hospital with an eight-bedded respiratory support unit to allow acute and chronic non-invasive ventilation. Respiratory outpatient clinics are held at King’s Mill and Newark Hospitals as well in the Ashfield and Mansfield Community Hospitals.

As well as general Respiratory out-patient clinics, we have also sub-specialist clinics for Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Disease, Sleep/Ventilators, COPD, TB and Bronchiectasis. The Respiratory Department sees approximately 2600 new outpatients per year and over 6400 follow up patients. There are bronchoscopy sessions at both King’s Mill Hospital and in Newark. We also perform Endobronchial ultrasound, Thoracoscopy and indwelling pleural catheters at King’s Mill. We support pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen services at three sites across mid-Nottinghamshire.

The Respiratory department has excellent clinical support from 10 respiratory physiologists with access to full pulmonary function tests, exhaled nitric oxide, exercise tests and muscle strength tests. There are also facilities for in-patient and out-patient sleep studies, with 4000 patients under follow-up for sleep disorders. The Respiratory department also organises the community oxygen assessment programme.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full detailed job description and person specification for the main responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
  • MRCP

Experience

Essential

  • Must have completed at least 4 years full time postgraduate training at least 1 of which must be in Medicine specialties

Desirable

  • Current experience of working within the NHS

Research

Essential

  • Able to appraise research
  • Understanding of Evidence Based Medicine
  • Understanding of the principles of medical audit and clinical governance
  • Completed at least one audit project related to General Medicine

Management & administrative experience

Essential

  • Understanding of the current structure of Health Services

Desirable

  • Familiar with the recent initiatives and changes in NHS

Teaching

Essential

  • A demonstrable interest in teaching
  • Evidence of teaching medical students, nursing or paramedical staff

Other

Essential

  • Communication skills – to have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely & competently
  • Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
  • Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
  • Caring attitude to patients
  • Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and cooperate with all staff
  • Professional attitude towards work
  • Prepared to work flexibly
  • Ability to organise and manage priorities

Desirable

  • Self-motivated
  • Familiarity with IT and computer skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 4 October 2026

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