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Adult Hypertension
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Locum: 12 months (extension agree my mutual agreement)
Hours
Part time - 6 sessions per week
Job ref
196-LCON1147
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/09/2025 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Adult Hypertension

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

1 YEAR FIXED TERM POST OF LOCUM CONSULTANT SPECIALISING IN ADULT HYPERTENSION

 

The hypertension (HTN) service sits within the General Internal Medicine (GIM) service within the Acute and General Medince (AGM)  Directorate at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). The service is recognised as a Centre of Excellence for hypertension and is one of the largest dedicated Hypertension Services in the UK, receiving over 1200 referrals per year. It also provides consultant advice and guidance (A&G) to general practitioners across South East London (SEL) as well as proving an on-call service to other teams at GSTT, during day time hours Monday to Friday (not bank holidays). It also supports multi-disciplinary meetings in endocrinology, vascular surgery and pharmacist led community clinics.

It is expected that the candidate will actively contribute to the research output of the service and thus a background in academic HTN research is essential. Responsibilities will include detailed patient assessment, diagnosis, developing treatment plans, supervising resident staff, educating patients, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to improve service delivery. 

We are seeking a committed, talented & enthusiastic specialist in HTN care with an established reputation in the field of HTN for adults and recongised research portfolio. The post is a fixed term post for 12-months and attracts 6 PAs.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be accountable to Dr Nigel Beckett Clinical Lead for the adult HTN service, Dr Dan Furmedge, Service Lead for GIM, and Dr James Fleet, Clinical Director for the AGM Directorate.

  • Job Plan Overview

    • 6 PAs per week 

    • Manage outpatient referrals and respond to primary care advice requests within 48 hours.

    • No on-call duties currently.

    • Job plan agreed within 3 months of start, reviewed annually.

    • Attend regular consultant and management meetings.

 

 

Working for our organisation

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. 

 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.

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. 

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.

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. 

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Patient Care:

  • Must be medically qualified with GMC registration.

  • Provide expert outpatient hypertension management and support complex cases across specialties.

  • Involve patients in care decisions and attend all clinical sessions.

Research & Teaching:

  • Collaborate on research and contribute to postgraduate training and supervision.

  • Teach medical students and healthcare professionals.

  • Develop a research portfolio, including grant applications.

Performance & Management:

  • Ensure clinical efficiency, quality outcomes, and cost-effective service delivery.

  • Participate in appraisals, mentoring, recruitment, and junior staff management.

Governance & Leadership:

  • Monitor clinical outcomes, participate in audits, and implement NICE guidelines.

  • Lead teams, resolve conflicts, and represent the Trust in external forums.

Person specification

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Proven track record and ability to work as an effective senior member of a multidisciplinary team
  • Interpretation of advanced investigations of secondary causes, such as saline suppression test
Desirable criteria
  • Echocardiography interpretation
  • Experience with selection of patients for renal denervation

Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC registration
  • Demonstration of sustained commitment at consultant level to the management of hypertension
  • MRCP or equivalent
  • Evidence of success in research at a postgraduate level
Desirable criteria
  • Membership of the BIHS or equivalent
  • MD/PhD

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Background in Internal Medicine (IM)
  • Extensive, sustained & current NHS experience in management of hypertensive patients, especially younger patients, below the age of 40
  • Leadership in the care of hypertensive patients in an outpatient setting
Desirable criteria
  • Currently working in a specialist HTN service
  • Evidence of expertise within the field of cardiorenal metabolic medicine

Audit Management & IT

Essential criteria
  • Clinical governance, audit, management and IT skills required
  • Understanding of principles of audit and quality improvement
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of service development or quality improvement experience in the NHS

Research

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
  • Evidence of current training in Good Clinical Practice
  • Evidence of peer-reviewed publications (more than 10) in the field of hypertension
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of successful grant applications

Teaching skill & experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undergraduate teaching and postgraduate training
Desirable criteria
  • Wide-ranging teaching or training background, or teaching qualification
  • Development of teaching and assessment programmes

Leadership / Management skills

Essential criteria
  • Communication; Ability to communicate clearly and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade, negotiate
  • Accountability; Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority
  • Interpersonal Skills; Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others
  • Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Staff Management; Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff
Desirable criteria
  • Formal experience in an NHS leadership and management role, or leadership qualification.
  • Postgraduate training in clinical leadership (e.g. Darzi fellowship) or equivalent

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Nigel Beckett
Job title
Consultant Ageing & Health/ General Medicine
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 7188 6755
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