Locum Consultant In Respiratory Medicine
The closing date is 08 June 2025
Job summary
Harefield Hospital Respiratory Team seeking a fixed term (6 month/ 10 PA) Locum Consultant to join the dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team.
Harefield Hospital (HH) is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, and an international centre for adult heart and heart-lung transplantation. It is one of a small number of UK cardiac centres assisting in development of implantable mechanical ventricular assist devices in the management of end-stage heart failure. It also provides a primary intervention service for acute coronary syndromes to selected Trusts and the London Ambulance Service, in outer West London and the Home Counties. It has approximately 1,185 staff, 180 beds with 5 operating theatres, and 4 catheter laboratories.
THIS POST MAY CLOSE EARLY IF SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICANTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.
This post is funded by GSTT and offers an excellent opportunity to join a first-class team working to deliver specialist innovative outpatient services including sleep/vent, COPD, Asthma, and interstitial lung disease.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical services (including urgent inpatient, outpatient and day case assessments) for the cohort of Respiratory patients referred to Harefield Hospital. The Department of Respiratory Medicine focuses on ambulatory respiratory services and is a rapidly expanding department. Apart from offering general respiratory outpatient services and full respiratory physiology facilities, the department looks after more than 6000 patients with sleep and ventilatory disorders, offers the largest combined hospital and community pulmonary rehabilitation programme in the UK, has a comprehensive home oxygen assessment and review service and offers specialist and daycase outpatient respiratory services. These include interventional bronchoscopy and EBUS, advanced COPD lung volume reduction work-up, difficult asthma, food allergy, occupational asthma, and pre-operative assessment and works closely with Thoracic Surgery (four surgeons), Lung Transplantation as well as the Lung Cancer Radiofrequency Ablation service. There are advanced plans to further expand services including development of a comprehensive one-stop medical-surgical pleural service, a multidisciplinary allergy service, a specialist respiratory diagnostic service (interstitial lung disease and difficult asthma), and a direct access breathlessness service.
About us
The GSTT Heart Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group is committed to delivering excellent patient care whilst meeting the Government targets.
The Harefield respiratory service consists of 6 Respiratory consultants, 2 specialist registrars, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Specialist Physiotherapists and Respiratory Physiologists.
Details
Date posted
20 May 2025
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
£105,504 to £139,882 a year pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
196-LCON1120
Job locations
Harefield Hospital
Hill End Road
Harefield, Uxbridge, Middx
UB9 6JH
Employer details
Employer name
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Harefield Hospital
Hill End Road
Harefield, Uxbridge, Middx
UB9 6JH
Employer's website
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