Locum Specialist Grade Doctor- Breast Surgery | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a full-time Specialist Grade Doctor to join their Breast Surgery Department. This role involves managing clinics for new patients and benign follow-ups, contributing to a sector-wide initiative, and ensuring adherence to diagnostic standards. The position requires GMC registration and broad experience in breast patient management. Flexible working and career development opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing benefits

Staff recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Applicants must be on the GMC register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply.
• Broad clinical experience and expertise in the management of breast patients.
• Experience in the management of new breast patients attending rapid diagnostic one-stop clinics.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and contribute to the running of New patient clinics, Benign follow-up, Breast Pain clinics and Family History clinics.
• Be involved in MDT activity and maintain one core SPA for continuing professional development.
• Contribute to a sector-wide initiative for patients presenting with breast pain only.

Skills

Broad clinical experience and expertise in the management of breast patients

Experience in the management of new breast patients attending rapid diagnostic clinics

Education

GMC registration with a Licence to Practice

Job description

Overview

Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust is the largest provider of breast services in north-west London. The breast surgery department sees approximately 21,000 outpatients and undertakes 900 surgical procedures a year. The department provides a broad range of services including daily rapid diagnostic clinics, a comprehensive surgical service with full reconstructive options, and a well-established family history clinic. It is an essential service for patients referred from local primary care services as well as the Trust-hosted West of London Breast Screening Service.

We welcome applications for this locum full-time (10 PAs) Specialist Grade Doctor post to start in the late summer of 2025.

Role and location

The Breast Surgery Department is looking to appoint a full-time (10 PA) Specialist Grade Doctor on a locum 12-month contract, to start in the late summer of 2025. The post will be based at Charing Cross Hospital with some activity at St Mary’s Hospital. The post-holder will play a key role in ensuring the department achieves the 28-day Faster Diagnostic Standard and the 62-day treatment target for patients referred with suspected cancer. The post-holder will also be involved in the running of a sector-wide initiative for patients presenting with breast pain only. They will also have involvement in Family History clinics. There is no on-call commitment with this post.

Qualifications

• Applicants must be on the GMC register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply for GMC registration and a Licence to Practice.
• Broad clinical experience and expertise in the management of breast patients.
• Broad experience in the management of new breast patients attending rapid diagnostic one-stop clinics.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and contribute to the running of New patient clinics, Benign follow-up, Breast Pain clinics and Family History clinics as part of the job plan.
• Be involved in MDT activity and maintain one core SPA for continuing professional development.
• Contribute to a sector-wide initiative developing the community-based pathway for patients presenting with breast pain only.

Benefits and recruitment information

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. You’ll be part of a vibrant team and will have access to career development, flexible working and wellbeing benefits, staff recognition schemes, and optional benefits such as Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan, or onsite leisure facilities. The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. Vaccination is still encouraged where feasible. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and will be asked to confirm vaccination status as part of pre-employment checks. We are conducting most interviews virtually and welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible, part-time, or job-share arrangements.

Outline of main job duties/responsibilities: this text is provided for vacancy creation and may be uploaded as a full JD in a supporting document. The job plan will include New patient, Benign follow-up, Breast Pain and Family History clinics, MDT involvement, and one core SPA for professional development, plus involvement in the sector-wide breast pain pathway project.

Outline of job closing: This advert closes on Monday 6 Oct 2025.