Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- Locum for 12 months
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Foundation Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/07/2025
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.
We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.
As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.
Job overview
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Locum Consultant in Respiratory & General Medicine
10PAs St George’s Hospital
This is a 12 month locum post, that provides an opportunity for an enthusiastic physician to provide respiratory services at St George’s Hospital. The successful candidate will join a group of 12 other consultants affiliated to the respiratory department at St George’s.
Prospective candidates are encouraged to visit for informal discussion, contact details below:
- Dr Helen Meredith, Respiratory Care Group Lead
Provisional Date for Interview: TBC
Main duties of the job
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· To provide a clinical service in respiratory medicine as part of a team of respiratory specialists.
· To participate in clinical and other service activities with the objective of ensuring a high standard of patient care; including general respiratory, sleep and cancer clinics
· Opportunities to join the severe asthma, COPD, sleep services or other sub specialties- welcome interest and discussion
· To contribute to service developments
· To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. Depending on the skills of the candidate, this could involve managing the respiratory clinical placements and other medical student clinical experience as well as the teaching program for the respiratory doctors.
· To contribute to the management of the service.
· Full consideration will be given to applicants who wish to apply for a less than full time post and we welcome enquires regarding that.
Working for our organisation
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare facilities in the United Kingdom with over 1100 beds. Based in Tooting, it treats 80,000 inpatients/day cases and over 300,000 outpatients annually. The Trust employs more than 5000 people, including 700 medical and dental staff. It provides general acute services and also specialties such as neurosciences, vascular, cardiothoracic and children's services.
St George’s Hospital is the main teaching hospital in the South West Thames region. It serves a local population of 300,000 but has developed links with most District General Hospitals in the region. There is a significant training programme for junior doctors who rotate through the Trust.
In 2003, the neurosciences services based at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in Wimbledon relocated to the Tooting site. The new purpose-built Atkinson Morley Wing is shared by neurosciences and cardiothoracic services. Accommodation is arranged over four floors, is built around inner courtyards and incorporates 233 inpatient and day case beds, eight operating theatres, and a range of state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the JD for Full Description
Proposed Job Plan template
Standard Royal College of Physicians framework of 10PA’s of which:
8 PA’s will be dedicated to direct clinical care (DCC)
2 PA’s will be devoted to Supporting professional activities (SPAs)
Person specification
Other
Desirable criteria
- Driving Licence
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP or Equivalent
- Full registration with GMC
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory and General Medicine via o CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) o CESR or o European Community Rights
Desirable criteria
- An appropriate higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent)
- Advanced Life Support Certificate
- Post graduate teaching qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of Clinical Governance activities in the last year
- Demonstrable experience in teaching
- Evidence of an understanding of how one may set up a new service – business plans, service development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a mutli-disciplinary integrated respiratory team
- Teaching skills course/qualification
- Demonstrable experience in research with an appropriate publication record
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to take on independent clinical responsibility whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to demonstrate leadership capabilities within multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to communicate effectively with GPs and other professionals in hospital and community
- Evidence of experience in day to day organisation of General Medical and Respiratory services in a hospital setting
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit, must have undertaken and completed audit projects recently
- Familiarity with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Desirable criteria
- Ability to develop research projects and supervise trainees in their research
Person Disposition
Essential criteria
- Caring attitude to patients
- Flexible and co-operative approach to colleagues and team members
- Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing medical education
- Commitment to uphold St George’s values
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Helen Meredith
- Job title
- Care Group Lead for Chest Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087250405
- Additional information
Dr Yee-Ean Ong
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