Locum Consultant Respiratory Physician in Lung Cancer

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS foundation trust in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Locum Consultant Respiratory Physician for a 12-month fixed-term position. The role involves supporting the lung cancer team, managing respiratory patients, and participating in the on-call rota. Candidates should have a primary medical qualification, full GMC Registration, and experience in lung cancer management. The trust offers a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner eligible for the Specialist Register within six months.
• Evidence of experience and competence in lung cancer management.
• Experience in supervising and teaching junior medical staff.

Responsibilities

• Support existing general respiratory and lung cancer service.
• Contribute to the general adult respiratory in-patient service.
• Participate in weekly multidisciplinary lung cancer meetings.

Skills

Experience in lung cancer management

Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) competence

Ability to supervise junior medical staff

Strong communication skills

Commitment to flexible working

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC Registration

MRCP(UK) or equivalent

Higher Degree

Job description

Go back The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant Respiratory Physician in Lung Cancer

The closing date is 04 January 2026

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This is a locum post fixed term for 12 months.

The objective of this post is to provide cover for respiratory consultant absence, by contributing to the existing work of the lung cancer team, including clinics and seeing new referrals, as well as contributing more widely to the respiratory work of the department, including seeing general referrals in clinic and providing cover to the respiratory ward on an attending Physician of the Week rota. There are on calls for Freeman respiratory Medicine, approximately 1 in 8, with weekends on call also. The job plan is indicative and includes scope for pleural procedural work and bronchoscopy.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

• To support the existing general respiratory and lung cancer service.
• Contribute to the general adult respiratory in-patient service.
• Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine.

For an informal discussion ... contact: Dr Andrew Stanton, Head of Respiratory Department, on 0191 233 6161 Ext 48365, or via email at [e-mail].

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

This post will support the general respiratory and multi-disciplinary lung cancer service by:

• Seeing new and review general respiratory medicine patients
• Seeing new and review lung cancer patients in clinics.
• Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung cancer meeting
• Support the adult respiratory service with a commitment to flexibly arrange sessions as service demands change.
• Contribute to the Respiratory ward and look after respiratory in-patients.

The appointee will have an equitable share in the attachment of junior medical staff and secretarial support.

Administrative

The appointee will be expected to organise and ensure probity of their clinical practice and that of their supporting team so as to provide coordinated, quality care to patients in line with wider departmental objectives. This would include, for example, providing timely responses to clinical and related correspondence, appropriate management of waiting lists, supervision and assessment of trainees.

The appointee may also be required to support colleagues or the clinical director in running aspects of the department from time to time. This may include timely investigation of complaints working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy.

The appointee will:

• Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Physicians
• Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays
• It is a condition of employment that so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:

• be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control
• attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control
• include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development
• take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleague

Audit and CPD

The Trust supports requirements for continuing professional development as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing support for these activities

Teaching

As with all other colleagues, the appointee will be expected to contribute to teaching activity when required as part of their appointment. The hospital is also a designated teaching centre for undergraduate medical students from Newcastle University. The appointee will be expected to attend and contribute at departmental meetings, administrative, audit, governance and academic teaching.

Flexibility

In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC Registration
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• MRCP(UK) or equivalent
• Higher Degree.
• Special skills training in the specialty.

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of experience in the specialty.
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
• At least British Thoracic Society CiP level 4 Primary TUS operator
• Evidence of experience and training in management of patients with lung cancer
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
• Evidence of experience and competence in Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)

Management and Administration Experience

• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the directorate to the Trust and its workforce
• An understanding of Clinical Governance
• Ability to run a respiratory service and participate in management process
• Involvement with unit management and project leadership
• Proven management and administration ability and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership and project management
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
• Ability to review clinical guidelines

Teaching

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education.

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and research projects.
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit.
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the Trust's values.
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
• A commitment to personal / unit CPD.
• Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota.
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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