Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine

NHS; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine for a 12-month position. Candidates should have expertise in Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Disease, and other respiratory conditions plus a commitment to high clinical standards. The role involves on-call duties and a range of clinical responsibilities, including management of specialized inpatient and outpatient services.

Qualifications

• Inclusion on GMC Specialist Register or within six months of expected date of CCT.
• Relevant experience in any declared specialist interest pertinent to the post.

Responsibilities

• Maintain highest clinical standards in respiratory medicine.
• Cover for colleagues' annual leave and provide professional supervision for junior staff.
• Participate in annual appraisals and CPD activities.

Skills

Multidisciplinary approach to lung cancer management

Clinical audit

Research and innovative service developments

Education

Full registration with GMC

Completion of a recognised training programme in respiratory and general medicine

Job description

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant Respiratory Medicine

The closing date is 26 September 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a Locum Consultant to join The Directorate of Respiratory Medicine at James Cook University Hospital for 12 months. This will include on call cover 1:6.

Candidates with an interest in Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Disease, Non-Invasive Ventilation, Bronchiectesis, TB or Obstructive Sleep Apnoea would complement the current team.

The service includes a 35 bedded inpatient ward incorporating an 8 bedded Respiratory Support Unit for non-invasive ventilation; a Lung Cancer Nursing Team; TB Nursing Team; COPD Outreach Service, COVID-19 virtual ward service, domiciliary NIV and a Specialist Respiratory Physiology Laboratory. Consultant led Acute Respiratory Assessment Service and Pleural Day Case Service runs weekly. We have specialist cancer, pleural disease, and difficult asthma, TB, and bronchiectasis clinics, sleep and NIV clinics. We have close links with the Newcastle interstitial lung disease, when requiring consensus opinion for ILD, and for commencing anti fibrotics.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain the highest clinical standards in the practice of Respiratory Medicine.

Clinical/ on-call responsibilities

• Undertake any responsibility which relates to the agreed special interests
• Cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences
• Provide professional supervision and management of junior medical staff
• Take part in annual appraisals (mandatory for all Consultants), carried out by the Clinical Director. Appropriate time and assistance will be provided for preparation
• Continuing professional development. The Trust supports requirements for CPD as laid down by the Royal Collages and is committed to providing support for these activities
• Any other duties which may be required

About us

Since October 2019, we have been empowering our clinicians to make the decisions around how we allocate our resources and deliver care - supported by the wealth of experience and professional knowledge that exists within our operational, estates, human resources and other administrative and support teams.

We have done this through our Clinical Policy Group (CPG) which draws its membership from our clinical directors, nursing and allied health professional leaders, chief medical officer, executive team, operational managers, chairs of staff-side, our senior medical staff forum, and our BMA representative.

Our CPG has created ten clinically-led improvement collaboratives (service groups) - natural care communities of surgeons, physicians, nurses, midwives, scientists, allied health professionals and administrative and support colleagues, which have come together to make their services even better for our patients.

At the heart of our clinical collaboratives is our Leadership Improvement and Safety Academy which encompasses our patient safety faculty and provides a range of support, including leadership and management training, quality improvement skills, team and service support, coaching and human factors training.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Clinical Specialty Skills

• Full registration with GMC. Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register or within six months of expected date of CCT.
• Completion of a recognised training programme in respiratory and general medicine.
• Multidisciplinary approach to lung cancer management.

Experience

• Relevant experience in any declared specialist interest pertinent to the post.
• Evidence of clinical audit
• Evidence of research or innovative service developments

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.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust