Locum Consultant - Respiratory Physician

Integrated Care System; Slough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Care System is seeking a Locum Consultant - Respiratory Physician for a full-time role based in Slough. The successful applicant will work within a supportive Integrated Respiratory team, involved in both outpatient and inpatient care while also contributing to teaching and service development. The role offers flexibility in subspecialty development and is part of a dynamic NHS Trust committed to professional growth.

Benefits

First-class development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Must be on the specialist register for respiratory and general internal medicine.
• Competent in managing complex respiratory infection including cystic fibrosis and TB.
• Minimum 6 months experience in a relevant subspecialty.

Responsibilities

• Undertake general and specialist respiratory outpatient clinics.
• Provide inpatient care as part of the respiratory team.
• Participate in teaching junior doctors and medical students.

Skills

Good written and oral communication skills

Innovative thinking

Ability to organise and develop service provision

Education

MRCP or equivalent through EEC rules

Full GMC registration

Management understanding of NHS hospital structures

CCT or within 6 months of receipt

MD/PhD

Tools

Endobronchial Ultrasound

Fibre optic bronchoscopy

Thoracoscopy

Job description

Locum Consultant - Respiratory Physician

Ideally, we are looking for a locum respiratory consultant, initially on a one year fixed term contract with potential to convert to a substantive and would support development of any sub-specialist interests. We have a large Integrated Respiratory team and given our successful bid of £1.2 million have expanded our respiratory virtual ward and work very closely with our extensive and experienced award winning Acute Integrated Respiratory (AIR) nursing team. However, the job is flexible and the department would support applicants who wish to develop or join other subspecialties, for example TB. We have one of the highest TB incidence areas outside of London and run a busy NHSE funded latent TB new entrant screening programme. We were also one of the initial pilot sites for Lung Cancer Screening, with this now being rolled out nationally, interest and development within this service would also be supported, as well as ILD as prescribing of anti-fibrotics is expected to extend to spoke sites. The roles are based at Wexham Park Hospital with Respiratory clinics largely held at King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor. The departments are hugely supportive and happy to support new CCT holders in gaining skills and experience to help with future substantive applications. Ideally applicants would be able to start in October 2025, but later and earlier start dates would be considered.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a Consultant Respiratory Physician. This is a full-time appointment with a commitment to the general weekday medical rota (approx 1:14) and the respiratory weekend rota 1 in 8.

The appointee would be expected to undertake on average:

2 general respiratory outpatient clinics in clinic weeks

2 specialist clinic - TB/Asthma/ILD /Sleep/Cancer

1 in 7 week ward commitment

1 in 7 week respiratory HDU commitment

Triage of ERS referrals

The job also entails inpatient care as part of the respiratory megafirm, looking after approximately 50 inpatients with other colleagues. The consultants currently rotate on and off the wards, doing a ward block and weeks on HDU.

During the ward block (respiratory ward and the HDU); we provide daily consultant input, in-reach into the medical assessment unit and emergency department and the provision of inpatient consultations.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo

Job responsibilities

The basis of the post is 10 programmed activities, of this the on-call duties are recognised at 1.5 PA and this is reviewed periodically. There are 8.5 fixed sessions with the remainder being allocated to supporting activities.

The post holder will be expected to have commitment to teaching junior doctors,

nurses including specialist nurses and medical students. The job plan below is intended to serve as a broad indication of the duties of the post and the successful candidate will be required to monitor a workload including on call.

Office space has been identified and secretarial support will also be provided.

Person Specification

Skills, mental abilities, special aptitudes eg. logical reasoning, numerical, innovative

• Able to evaluate own clinical practice
• Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organise and develop service provision

Knowledge/ Qualifications/ Special Training

• MRCP or equivalent through EEC rules
• Postholder must be on the specialist register for respiratory and general internal medicine on the date of taking up the appointment
• Full GMC registration
• Management - understanding the structures of NHS hospitals and willing to play a role in the Department and in the Hospita
• Possession of CCT or within 6 months of receipt.
• MD/PhD

Experience

• General respiratory experience
• Competent in respiratory practical procedures, e.g. fibre optic bronchoscopy, chest drain insertion
• Experience of lung cancer MDT working and understanding of the roles of the lung cancer treatment team
• Experience in working in a medical HDU / ICU.
• Willingness to be involved in teaching at under graduate and post graduate level
• Understand principles and participated in audit activity
• Understand the principles of Clinical Governance and demonstrate experience of evidence based practice
• Competent in Endobronchial Ultrasound
• Competent in Endobronchial Ultrasound
• Competent in thoracoscopy / pleural procedures/ tunnelled drain insertion
• Minimum 6 months experience in a relevant subspecialty
• Competent in managing complex respiratory infection including cystic fibrosis and TB
• Competent in managing ILD

Special Circumstances/ Additional Requirements (location, mobility etc)

• Able to do on call on site including a weekend rota

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.