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Job summary

Main area
Respiratory and Transplant Medicine
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
1 year (Locum fixed term post - 2 PA 1 year)
Hours
Part time - 8 hours per week (2 PAs per week)
Job ref
196-LCON1016
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Harefield Hospital
Town
Harefield
Salary
£93,666 - £126,281 salary and London allowance pro rata'd for 2 PAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2024 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Respiratory and Transplant Medicine

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

This post is a fixed-term 1 year 2 PA Consultant post in Respiratory Medicine and Transplant Medicine to support the service, with the possibility to extend if funding was present.

More than 3000 transplants have been carried out since the programme started in January 1980 with a surviving population of just over 1000 patients up to 31 years post-transplant.   The unit currently undertakes approximately 75-90 transplant operations per annum. The unit has successfully developed a Non-heart beating programme for Lung Transplant and is developing Ex-vivo lung perfusion transplant programmes to expand the donor pool.   The UK’s only Live Donor Lobar Lung Transplant programme was launched in 2016 following HTA approval and NHS BT support.

Since 2020 the unit is working in collaboration with NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), Papworth Hospital Trust and Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester in a national retrieval service evaluation to retrieve and safely transplant hearts from donors who died following circulatory death (DCD) using normothermic ex-vivo support, which allows monitoring and assessment prior to recipient transplantation.  This is to support national expansion of the heart donor pool.

 

Main duties of the job

This post is a fixed-term1 year 2 PA Consultant post in Respiratory Medicine and Transplant Medicine to support the service, with the possibility to extend if funding was present.

The purpose of the job is to provide clinical services in Heart and Lung Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support and lung clinical management, in accordance with clinical and legal requirements and in keeping with the international role of the Trust.

Clinical Responsibilities

To provide a responsive clinical service to referring Physicians.

To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary heart and lung transplant team, including participation in the medical rota for transplantation, and the weekly Transplant MDT meeting.

To actively participate in the on-going development of the programme’s ECLS service and be responsible for patients on ECLS.

To undertake regular ward rounds to ensure timely safe discharge of patients whenever possible.

The post-holder will be required to contribute to consultant physician cover for the Transplant Unit.

To participate fully in the management of the Clinical Division, and to undertake specific tasks, as agreed with the Clinical Director(s) to improve the management of clinical services.

Example of Job Plan attached with Person specification.

Working for our organisation

The Heart, Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group is a formal sub-committee of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Board, with delegated responsibilities and decision-making rights for the strategic and operational running of its services. These are set out in the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Scheme of Delegation, and the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions provide the delegation limits with regards to financial decisions.

Harefield Hospital (HH) is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, and an international centre for adult heart and lung transplantation. It is one of a small number of UK cardiac centres assisting in development of implantable mechanical ventricular assist devices in the management of end-stage heart failure. It also provides a primary intervention service for acute coronary syndromes to selected Trusts and the London Ambulance Service, in outer West London and the Home Counties.  It has approximately 1,185 staff, 180 beds with 5 operating theatres, and 4 catheter laboratories.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Example of Job Plan attached with Person specification.

Clinical responsibilities include providing a responsive clinical service and working as a team member of the multi-disciplinary heart and lung transplant team.

 

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC registration
Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent)

Essential

Essential criteria
  • On the Specialist Register of The GMC for Respiratory Medicine or within 6 months of eligibility at the time of interview.
Desirable criteria
  • Research experience with significant publication record and contributions to major professional conferences

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Sub-specialist interest in lung transplantation. Experience in managing patients prior and post lung and heart/lung transplantation, including long term follow-up
Desirable criteria
  • IT skills and computer literacy

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Vicky Gerovasili
Job title
Clinical Lead for Respiratory Transplant Medicine
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01895823737
Additional information

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