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Job summary

Main area
Respiratory Medicine - Thoracic Surgery
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Locum: 6 months (Fixed term, with the possibility to extend to 12 months)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
196-LCON1129
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Brompton Hospital
Town
South Kensington
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 PA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/07/2025 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Thoracic Surgery

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

The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Clinical Group is part of Guy’s & St Thomas Foundation Trust. The combined teams from the Royal Brompton, Harefield and Guy’s Hospitals form the largest thoracic unit in the UK. 
 
We are seeking a dynamic individual committed to excellence in service delivery, to join a first-class team of substantive consultant thoracic surgeons.
 
General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Simon Jordan, Clinical Lead for Thoracic Surgery, [email protected] or Natasha Ahmed, Service Manager for Thoracic Surgery, [email protected].  
 
Please note this vacancy may close early should a sufficient number of applications be received.

 

Main duties of the job

 

The post-holder will, together with consultant colleagues, be responsible for the provision of thoracic surgery services on behalf of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to include the diagnosis and treatment of patients both in the Trust and in such hospitals, clinics or other premises as required.
 
The post-holder will also be required to:
 
Provide High Quality Care to Patients
• The post-holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration, hold a licence to practice and fulfil the requirements for revalidation.
• To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• To adhere to the trust values “we are Caring | Ambitious | Inclusive”.
 
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 resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.
 
Performance Management
• To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
o Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
o Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates..
o Operational efficiency e.g. waiting list activity and meeting cancer treatment targets.
 

Working for our organisation

The thoracic surgery service attracts national referrals for specialist complex surgery in both adults and children. Between the Royal Brompton and Harefield sites we offer a wide range of thoracic treatments and perform in excess of 2,000 cases each year. We are the designated centre for sarcoma in London and the South East, seeing a range of metastatic, primary and chest wall disease. We have a strong record for performing VATS, and particularly, single port VATS lung resections. We perform a large number of interventional bronchoscopies, with both rigid and fibre-optic techniques. We have just commenced our robotic thoracic programme with a Da Vinci Xi robot which is being used by surgeons from both Brompton and Harefield sites.

The Thoracic Surgery Department is currently expanding in response to the forecasted activity increase following the introduction of Targeted Lung Health Checks (TLHC).

TLHC pilot schemes are already underway offering low-dose CT scans to those assessed as high risk. It is expected that we will see stage migration with more patients diagnosed with stage 1 lung cancer in our lung MDMs, this will contribute to the national ambition for 75% of cancers to be diagnosed at Stage 1 and 2 by 2028. As a result of the programme, there will be a higher proportion of patients who are suitable for curative treatment, in particular a higher number of thoracic surgery cases.

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.
  • FRCS CTh or equivalent qualification.

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Comprehensive experience in both elective and emergency thoracic surgery.
  • Previous appointments in recognised high quality thoracic surgery units.
  • Credentialed training in robotic thoracic resections and recent clinical experience of this.
  • Proven competency as an independent operator in specialised techniques that will enhance the existing departmental skill set e.g. VATS lobectomy, radical surgery for mesothelioma and emergency airways management using interventional bronchoscopy and laser.

Clinical Skills / knowledge and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching and training
  • Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management and governance
  • Proven skills in managing professional relationships with colleagues in high stress environments, and resolving conflicts
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of quality in previous teaching (formal student feedback exercises etc.)
  • Clinical management experience at clinical director or clinical lead level
  • Evidence of audit activity / publications in thoracic surgery topics.

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
Simon Jordan
Job title
Clinical Lead for Thoracic Surgery
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information
 
General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Simon Jordan, Clinical Lead for Thoracic Surgery, [email protected] or Natasha Ahmed, Service Manager for Thoracic Surgery, [email protected].  

 

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