Job overview

Post CCT interventional fellowship / Senior Clinic Fellow

MFT Wythenshawe Thoracic oncology unit has an opportunity for three enthusiastic, self-motivated Post CCT or senior trainees, to join our expanding team.  The role will give the candidates the opportunity to hone their skills in interventional bronchoscopy, pleural disease and lung cancer screening. 

Posts are available as follows: 1 immediately, 1 August 2025, 1 September 2025. 

Successful applicants will work with the Thoracic Oncology department in a team of 5 fellows, gaining experience in the rapid cancer clinic, and procedures including linear EBUS, AFI bronchoscopy, radial probe EBUS, Navigational bronchoscopy and soon to be robotic bronchoscopy.  There will also be opportunity for experience in pleural procedures with local anaesthetic thoracoscopy, indwelling pleural catheters, chest drains and ambulatory pleural vents.

The post holder will work in the rapid HSC clinics, pleural clinics, and support specialist ward referrals. There will be the opportunity to undertake research projects and present at conferences.  This will all help build their portfolio prior to taking up a definitive Consultant post with an interest in Pleural Disease/Intervention/Lung Cancer. Equally registrars in training who wish to increase their expertise of procedural skills whilst consolidating their respiratory training.

Main duties of the job

The posts will be focused on all the elements involved in the management of lung cancer pathways, from early detection with screening to management of complex lung cancer and pleural disease. They will offer the post holder the opportunity to further develop interventional skills including endobronchial skills with other pleural and minimally invasive thoracic techniques.

In addition to the interventional procedures the post-holders will be involved with the full diagnostic pathways from screening triage, outcoming of screening investigations, rapid access lung cancer clinics, Cancer and Pleural ward consult service, MDT, including specialist pleural MDT, teaching, research & Audit and service development.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.