Job summary
The Department of Respiratory Medicine is seeking a full-time (10 PA) Consultant to join our dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team.
This post is funded by GSTT and offers an excellent opportunity to join a first-class team working to deliver innovative pathways of care for the local respiratory population in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment, which is part of a wider Academic Health Sciences Centre.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will join the core team of consultants providing general respiratory clinics, general internal medicine and respiratory medicine in-patient care and flexible diagnostic bronchoscopy.
The postholder will also join the Pulmonary Hypertension service offering in-patient reviews and specialist outpatient clinics for patients with thromboembolic disease. The postholder will join MDTs at the GSTT site and cross-site working with RBH colleagues. There will be future potential to develop increased cross-site working with the RBH Pulmonary Hypertension service. The current Pulmonary Hypertension team includes Dr Bhashkar Mukherjee (consultant physician at GSTT and RBH) and Dr Karen Breen (consultant haematologist at GSTT).
The postholder will also provide specialist Sickle Lung disease clinics, working closely with haematology colleagues (Dr Rachel Kesse-Adu) and respiratory colleagues (Dr Patrick Murphy).
About us
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy's and St Thomas' in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world. Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the work. We are working in partnership with King's Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.
The Directorate of Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep based at Guy's and St Thomas' (forming part of the GSTT Heart Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group) is committed to delivering excellent patient care whilst meeting the Government targets for A&E waiting times, cancer and 18 weeks.
The directorate provides a comprehensive service for inpatient and outpatient settings from a body of 20 consultants (as below). Respiratory consultants also contribute to the care of general medical and high-dependency patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description, person specification and functional requirements for more details on the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description, person specification and functional requirements for more details on the post.
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise
- On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT in Respiratory medicine and General Internal Medicine
Desirable
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive clinical experience in respiratory and GIM
- Comprehensive experience in pulmonary hypertension
Desirable
- Experience in sickle lung disease
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Competent in diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy
Audit, Governance & IT
Essential
- Understanding of principles of the audit
- Evidence of training in management
Desirable
- Evidence of completion of QI and audit projects
Research. Teaching skill & experience
Essential
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
Desirable
- Evidence of research output in peer reviewed journals
- Experience of recruitment into clinical trials
Leadership / Management skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate
- Evidence of experience in leading a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Leadership/ management qualification
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise
- On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT in Respiratory medicine and General Internal Medicine
Desirable
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive clinical experience in respiratory and GIM
- Comprehensive experience in pulmonary hypertension
Desirable
- Experience in sickle lung disease
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Competent in diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy
Audit, Governance & IT
Essential
- Understanding of principles of the audit
- Evidence of training in management
Desirable
- Evidence of completion of QI and audit projects
Research. Teaching skill & experience
Essential
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
Desirable
- Evidence of research output in peer reviewed journals
- Experience of recruitment into clinical trials
Leadership / Management skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate
- Evidence of experience in leading a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Leadership/ management qualification
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
