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Job summary

Main area
Respiratory Medicine
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
6 months (Fixed term)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (There is no out of hours on-call requirement for this post.)
Job ref
196-LCON1120
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Harefield Hospital
Town
Harefield, Uxbridge, Middx
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/06/2025 23:59
Interview date
23/06/2025

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Locum Consultant In Respiratory 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

Harefield Hospital Respiratory Team seeking a fixed term (6 month/ 10 PA) Locum Consultant to join the dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team.

Harefield Hospital (HH) is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, and an international centre for adult heart and heart-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.

 

THIS POST MAY CLOSE EARLY IF SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICANTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.

 

This post is funded by GSTT and offers an excellent opportunity to join a first-class team working to deliver specialist innovative outpatient services including sleep/vent, COPD, Asthma, and interstitial lung disease.  

 

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical services (including urgent inpatient, outpatient and day case assessments) for the cohort of Respiratory patients referred to Harefield Hospital.  The Department of Respiratory Medicine focuses on ambulatory respiratory services and is a rapidly expanding department. Apart from offering general respiratory outpatient services and full respiratory physiology facilities, the department looks after more than 6000 patients with sleep and ventilatory disorders, offers the largest combined hospital and community pulmonary rehabilitation programme in the UK, has a comprehensive home oxygen assessment and review service and offers specialist and daycase outpatient respiratory services. These include interventional bronchoscopy and EBUS, advanced COPD lung volume reduction work-up, difficult asthma, food allergy, occupational asthma, and pre-operative assessment and works closely with Thoracic Surgery (four surgeons), Lung Transplantation as well as the Lung Cancer Radiofrequency Ablation service. There are advanced plans to further expand services including development of a comprehensive one-stop medical-surgical pleural service, a multidisciplinary allergy service, a specialist respiratory diagnostic service (interstitial lung disease and difficult asthma), and a direct access breathlessness service.

 

Working for our organisation

The GSTT Heart Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group is committed to delivering excellent patient care whilst meeting the Government targets.

The Harefield respiratory service consists of 6 Respiratory consultants, 2 specialist registrars, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Specialist Physiotherapists and Respiratory Physiologists.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more detailed information regarding the posts.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria
  • Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise
  • On GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine or within six months of eligibility.
  • MRCP or equivalent

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Comprehensive clinical experience in managing a broad range of respiratory Conditions
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of sleep / NIV, TB, ILD
  • Experience in interpreting respiratory investigations such as polysomnography or actigraphy
  • Experience of Cancer
  • Experience on ICU

Clinical Skills / knowledge and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Audit
  • MDT Working and communication skills
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching
  • Service Development

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Sunny Kaul
Job title
Clinical Lead and Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01895 823737
Additional information

01895 823737 - sec Pamela Walker

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