Job summary
- Main area
- Weaning, Rehabilitation & Complex Home Ventilation - with a special interest in neuromuscular disease
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 196-CON1043
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 11:00
Employer heading

Consultant in Weaning, Rehabilitation & Complex Home Ventilation
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
The Lane Fox Respiratory and the Royal Brompton Sleep & Ventilation Service is seeking a new full-time (10 PA) consultant to join a dynamic, enthusiastic and multi-disciplinary team. This post is an opportunity to join a cross-site complex home ventilation and specialist weaning service with clinical commitment to delivering care. The post will have specialist interest in the management of patients with neuromuscular disease. The team is keen to appoint an individual with cores skills in respiratory medicine, with the opportunity for training to develop confidence in the management of specific areas such as complex home ventilation and specialist weaning offered if appropriate. The department is keen that the appointee will enhance the current team and ensure we maintain the service at the forefront of clinical and academic excellence.
Main duties of the job
The post is based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
The post-holder will be expected to work flexibly across the 3 sites: Lane Fox St Thomas site (complex home ventilation, specialist weaning), Lane Fox Remeo site at East Surrey Hospital (complex home ventilation, specialist weaning) and Royal Brompton site (complex home ventilation).
The Lane Fox Respiratory Service offers a wide range of services to patients with chronic respiratory conditions. The post-holder will undertake home ventilation, outpatient sessions, ward rounds, and outreach and community reviews. The role includes time managing patients with neuromuscular disease. The post-holder will be expected to work closely with the multi-disciplinary team to provide respiratory and holistic care. The successful applicant will be expected to take an active role in education and research within the Service. This is an excellent opportunity to join a first class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment.
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 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
Please see the attached Job description, person specification and functional requirements for more details on the post.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise
- On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT in Respiratory & General Internal Medicine.
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- BSc or equivalent
- PhD or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- ICU experience as a specialist registrar
- Acute and home mechanical ventilation (non-invasive and invasive ventilation)
- Respiratory sleep studies
- Experience in the management of patients with chronic respiratory failure
Desirable criteria
- Anaesthetic experience including tracheostomy ventilation experience
- Clinical period outside the UK
- Limited respiratory polygraphy and full polysomnography interpretation
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of weaning from mechanical ventilation
- Sleep study interpretation
- Management of home mechanical ventilation
Audit Management & IT
Essential criteria
- Track record of clinical governance, audit, management and IT skills required
- Interpretation of clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- Database design
Research, Teaching skill & experience
Essential criteria
- Track record of research, publications/ understanding / knowledge of Research ethics
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of research training
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
- Dr Patrick Murphy
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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