Locum Consultant In Respiratory Medicine

NHS; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine to join their dynamic team at Harefield Hospital. This fixed-term role involves providing clinical services for respiratory patients, notably in outpatient settings. The ideal candidate will have comprehensive clinical experience, full UK GMC registration, and relevant specialist training. Opportunities to develop innovative outpatient services are available. Closing date for applications is 01 October 2025.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive clinical experience in managing a broad range of respiratory conditions.
• Experience of sleep / NIV, TB, ILD.
• Experience in interpreting respiratory investigations such as polysomnography or actigraphy.
• Experience of Cancer.
• Experience on ICU.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical services for Respiratory patients referred to Harefield Hospital.
• Focus on ambulatory respiratory services and rapidly expanding department.
• Offer general respiratory outpatient services and full respiratory physiology facilities.

Skills

Audit

MDT Working and communication skills

Teaching

Service Development

Education

MRCP or equivalent

Full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise

GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant In Respiratory Medicine

The closing date is 01 October 2025

Harefield Hospital Respiratory Team seeking a fixed term (12 month/ 10 PA) Locum Consultant to join the dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team.

Harefield Hospital (HH) is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, and an international centre for adult heart and heart-lung transplantation. It is one of a small number of UK cardiac centres assisting in development of implantable mechanical ventricular assist devices in the management of end-stage heart failure. It also provides a primary intervention service for acute coronary syndromes to selected Trusts and the London Ambulance Service, in outer West London and the Home Counties. It has approximately 1,185 staff, 180 beds with 5 operating theatres, and 4 catheter laboratories.

THIS POST MAY CLOSE EARLY IF SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICANTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.

This post is funded by GSTT and offers an excellent opportunity to join a first-class team working to deliver specialist innovative outpatient services including sleep/vent, COPD, Asthma, and interstitial lung disease.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical services (including urgent inpatient, outpatient and day case assessments) for the cohort of Respiratory patients referred to Harefield Hospital. The Department of Respiratory Medicine focuses on ambulatory respiratory services and is a rapidly expanding department. Apart from offering general respiratory outpatient services and full respiratory physiology facilities, the department looks after more than 6000 patients with sleep and ventilatory disorders, offers the largest combined hospital and community pulmonary rehabilitation programme in the UK, has a comprehensive home oxygen assessment and review service and offers specialist and daycase outpatient respiratory services. These include interventional bronchoscopy and EBUS, advanced COPD lung volume reduction work-up, difficult asthma, food allergy, occupational asthma, and pre-operative assessment and works closely with Thoracic Surgery (four surgeons), Lung Transplantation as well as the Lung Cancer Radiofrequency Ablation service. There are advanced plans to further expand services including development of a comprehensive one-stop medical-surgical pleural service, a multidisciplinary allergy service, a specialist respiratory diagnostic service (interstitial lung disease and difficult asthma), and a direct access breathlessness service.

About us

The GSTT Heart Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group is committed to delivering excellent patient care whilst meeting the Government targets.

The Harefield respiratory service consists of 6 Respiratory consultants, 2 specialist registrars, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Specialist Physiotherapists and Respiratory Physiologists.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more detailed information regarding the posts.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• 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.
• MRCP or equivalent

Clinical Experience

• Comprehensive clinical experience in managing a broad range of respiratory Conditions
• Experience of sleep / NIV, TB, ILD
• Experience in interpreting respiratory investigations such as polysomnography or actigraphy
• Experience of Cancer
• Experience on ICU

Clinical Skills / knowledge and abilities

• Audit
• MDT Working and communication skills
• Teaching
• Service Development

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Guy\'s and St Thomas\' NHS Foundation Trust