Respiratory Medicine Consultant - Screening Lead - lung cancer & EBUS.

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Respiratory Medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 200-MC-037-CA

Site St Georges Foundation Hospital Town Tooting Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/10/:59

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George's, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King's Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4's '24 Hours in A&E' programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John's Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people's own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Job overview

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant in Respiratory Medicine- lead for lung cancer screening at St George's and with sub speciality interest in lung cancer and EBUS.

10PAs St George's Hospital

This is a 12 month locum post,that provides an opportunity for an enthusiastic physician to provide respiratory services at St George's Hospital. The successful candidate will join a group of 12 other consultants affiliated to the respiratory department at St George's.

• Dr Helen Meredith, Respiratory Care Group Lead

Main duties of the job

To provide a clinical service in respiratory medicine as part of a team of respiratory specialists.

To participate in clinical and other service activities with the objective of ensuring a high standard of patient care; including general respiratory, sleep and cancer clinics

To lead the delivery of the lung cancer screening programme review meetings at St George's and work within the lung cancer team.

To participate in the delivery of the regional EBUS service.

To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. Depending on the skills of the candidate, this could involve managing the respiratory clinical placements and other medical student clinical experience as well as the teaching program for the respiratory doctors.

To contribute to the management of the service.

Full consideration will be given to applicants who wish to apply for a less than full time post and we welcome enquires regarding that.

Working for our organisation

St George's Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare facilities in the United Kingdom with over 1100 beds. Based in Tooting, it treats 80,000 inpatients/day cases and over 300,000 outpatients annually. The Trust employs more than 5000 people, including 700 medical and dental staff. It provides general acute services and also specialties such as neurosciences, vascular, cardiothoracic and children's services.

St George's Hospital is the main teaching hospital in the South West Thames region. It serves a local population of 300,000 but has developed links with most District General Hospitals in the region. There is a significant training programme for junior doctors who rotate through the Trust.

In 2003, the neurosciences services based at Atkinson Morley's Hospital in Wimbledon relocated to the Tooting site. The new purpose-built Atkinson Morley Wing is shared by neurosciences and cardiothoracic services. Accommodation is arranged over four floors, is built around inner courtyards and incorporates 233 inpatient and day case beds, eight operating theatres, and a range of state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full breakdown of the main responsibilities for Consultant in Respiratory Medicine- lead for lung cancer screening at St George's and with sub speciality interest in lung cancer and EBUS position

Other

• Driving Licence

Qualifications

• MRCP or Equivalent


• Full registration with GMC


• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory and General Medicine via o CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) o CESR or o European Community Rights


• Ability to bronchoscope independently and be able to supervise specialist trainees


• An appropriate higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent)


• Advanced Life Support Certificate


• Post graduate teaching qualifications


• Ability to perform EBUS independently

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of Clinical Governance activities in the last year


• Demonstrable experience in teaching


• Evidence of an understanding of how one may set up a new service - business plans, service development


• Experience of working within a mutli-disciplinary integrated respiratory team


• Teaching skills course/qualification


• Demonstrable experience in research with an appropriate publication record

Skills

• Ability to take on independent clinical responsibility whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team


• Ability to demonstrate leadership capabilities within multi-disciplinary teams


• Ability to communicate effectively with GPs and other professionals in hospital and community


• Evidence of experience in day to day organisation of General Medical and Respiratory services in a hospital setting


• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit, must have undertaken and completed audit projects recently


• Familiarity with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes


• Ability to develop research projects and supervise trainees in their research


• Evidence of training to be an educational supervisor

Person Disposition

• Caring attitude to patients


• Flexible and co-operative approach to colleagues and team members


• Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure


• Demonstrable commitment to continuing medical education


• Commitment to uphold St George's values

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust - being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

• The machine readable zone


• An ultra violet image


• An infra red image

As part of you pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require atleast one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Helen Meredith Job title Care Group Lead for Chest Medicine Email address Telephone number Additional information

Dr Adrian Draper, Respiratory consultant and lung cancer lead