Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Allergy
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Less than full time, 6 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week)
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 196-LCON1143
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Evelina London Children’s Hospital at St Thomas’ Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 6 PA's per week
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Paediatric Allergy
NHS Medical & Dental: 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
There is a dedicated Paediatric Allergy Department which houses clinical and academic staff working in a multidisciplinary environment. Clinics run in conjunction with a dedicated specialist paediatric allergy dietician, specialist nursing support that provides allergy testing, management advice, education and support, and psychology support. Day case food and drug challenges as well as immunotherapy and administration of biologics, are carried out in a dedicated Children’s Allergy Day Unit every day of the week.
Approximately 6000 children are seen in our outpatient clinics each year. New to follow-up ratio is approximately 1.7. Around 1800 children are seen each year as day cases for either food/drug provocation challenges, sublingual or subcutaneous immunotherapy. There is an increasing number of patients being seen for food oral immunotherapy (milk and peanut) and for complex drug challenges as well as omalizumab administration. Clinical referrals are a mix of GP, secondary and tertiary care referrals.
Most clinics are Consultant led and supported by nurses and specialist Paediatric allergy dietitians. Senior clinical nurse specialists and specialist dietitians run their own clinics. Skin prick testing, lung function testing, exhaled nitric oxide measurement, adrenaline auto-injector training and allergen avoidance advice are all available for patients during their visit.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be accountable to Evelina Clinical Director, Dr Jo Laddie. As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide High Quality Care to Patients
· The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice
· To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
· To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
· To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
Research, Teaching and Training
· Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
· To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.
· To take an active role in the work of the Allergy academy which provides post- graduate teaching and training.
· To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.
Performance Management
· To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
· Clinical efficiency e.g. Immunotherapy response rates, DNA rates.
· Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
· Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
· Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.
Medical Staff Management
· To work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.
· To ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior medical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments
· To participate in the recruitment of junior medical staff as and when required.
· To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
· To be responsible for the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/General Manager.
Governance
· To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
· Lead and participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
· To work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.
· Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the specialty areas.
· To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.
· To keep fully informed about best practice in the specialty areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.
· To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
· To both assure and promote good practice in relation to all aspects of clinical governance, working closely with the Lead for Quality and Patient experience.
Strategy and Business Planning
· To participate in the business planning and objective setting process for the directorate and Trust where appropriate.
· To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.
Leadership and Team Working
· To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.
· To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Kings Health Partners as required.
· To chair regular meetings for the specialties.
· To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.
· Adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
- On the GMC’s Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree eg MD, PhD in Allergy relevant area
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Accredited Subspeciality Training in paediatric allergy (UK or non UK). Experience managing patients with perplexing presentations
- Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
- Valid BLS and PILS Training
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in NHS
- Wider experience, research, and training, in providing subspecialty service (if applicable)
- Valid APLS
- Experience with safeguarding of children who present with perplexing presentations
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage full range of severe and complex allergy in children including perplexing presentations
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to plan and participate in the training of clinical staff
Research, Teaching and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
- Up to date Good Clinical Practice
Desirable criteria
- Peer reviewed publications
Audit Management
Essential criteria
- Experience of clinical governance, audit and management processes
- Understanding of principles of audit
- Appropriate IT skills required
Leadership and Management
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate
- Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others
- Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff. Experience of managing conflict in a team at work
- Knowledge of finance and budgets in the NHS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Susan Chan
- Job title
- Paediatric Allergy Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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