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Main area
Respiratory Medicine
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Locum: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
196-LCON1133
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
15/08/2025 23:59

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Locum Consultant In Respiratory Medicine - Severe Asthma

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

This appointment is for a full-time locum consultant respiratory physician who will be primarily working within the severe asthma and upper airways service based at Royal Brompton Hospital. 
 
This tertiary service is one of the largest in the UK with an International reputation for excellence and takes referrals from a network of hospitals across the surrounding regions. The appointee will join two RBH based full-time severe asthma physicians as well as an experienced multidisciplinary team of specialist nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, clinical psychologists and speech and language therapists to provide specialist care to a large cohort of patients with difficult and severe asthma including over 1000 on biologic therapies. 
 

Main duties of the job

Provide High Quality Care to Patients 
• The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC full and specialist registration and hold a current licence to practise 
• To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post. 
 
Performance Management 
• To work with medical, nursing, laboratory and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas: 
• Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates. 
 
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
 
Governance 
• To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
• Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.
 
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.
 

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 strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

 

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
  • MRCP or equivalent
  • CCT in respiratory medicine
Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree (PhD or MD) in the field of asthma

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Clinical experience in severe asthma including the use of biologic therapies
Desirable criteria
  • Specialist training at an NHSE commissioned Severe Asthma Centre
  • Clinical experience of managing cough and upper airway dysfunction
  • Clinical experience of managing eosinophilic lung diseases

Clinical Skills / knowledge and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Peer reviewed publications in the field of asthma
  • Undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching experience
  • Experience of clinical audit
  • Experience of supporting recruitment to clinical trials and /or clinical research
Desirable criteria
  • Presentations at National and/or International Respiratory Congresses

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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
Prof David Jackson
Job title
Clinical Lead | GSTT Asthma Network
Email address
[email protected]
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