Locum Consultant Respiratory

NHS; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Gillingham is seeking a Locum Consultant Respiratory for a fixed term of 12 months. This role involves managing both inpatient and outpatient respiratory patients, with flexibility in working arrangements encouraged. Candidates with interests in interstitial lung disease or sleep and ventilation are welcome. The position also offers a competitive salary range of £109,725 to £145,478 annually, pro rata.

Benefits

Staff benefits including a gym

Health and wellbeing programme

On-site nursery

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and a license to practice are required.
• MRCP or equivalent is necessary.
• Experience in Pleural or Sleep Medicine is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage respiratory patients as inpatients and outpatients.
• Support the respiratory team and manage out-patient clinic work.
• Integrate into the respiratory team roster for clinics.

Skills

Competency in management of Respiratory Medicine

Experience in Pleural or Sleep Medicine

Education

Full GMC registration and a license to practice

MRCP (or equivalent)

Job description

Job Title: Locum Consultant Respiratory fixed term for 12 months

Division: Medicine and Emergency Care

Interview Date: 31 October 2025

We are recruiting for an Locum Consultant Respiratorywho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for a Consultant (Locum fixed term 12 month job in the first instance) to come join the respiratory team and support our new respiratory ward and help manage our out-patient clinic work. We welcome a candidate with an interest in ILD or sleep and ventilation but other sub-specialty interests will be considered and accommodated if possible.

The chest department is part of Medical and Emergency Care Division. The Consultants in the Respiratory department are not on the General Medical rota but run a weekend ward cover service. The advertised post does not currently have any on-call / OOH commitments but this can be re-visited depending on individual candidate needs and the departments requirements.

The post holder is expected to be able to manage Respiratory patients both as Inpatients and Outpatients. The post holder will be integrated into our Respiratory Team roster for ward and in addition to general respiratory clinics (and speciality clinics depending on the successful candidates interests).

Our subspecialty clinics include, ILD, asthma, sleep & ventilation, TB, pleural and lung cancer.

We have a large Sleep and Ventilation service including domiciliary ventilation, supported by an experienced physiologist and CNS team. We run monthly ILD MDMs linked in with the Guys and St Thomas ILD service and have a dedicated ILD Pharmacist supporting the team.

Secretarial support and an adequately equipped office will be provided including IT facilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and a license to practice
• MRCP (or equivalent)

Knowledge

• Competency in the management of all aspects of Respiratory Medicine.

Experience

• Experience in Pleural or Sleep Medicine is desirable

Value Based Question

• How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?

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.

£109,725 to £145,478 a year, per annum pro rata