Job summary
Job Overview
Job Title: Locum Consultant Respiratory fixed term for 12 months
Division: Medicine and Emergency Care
Care Group: Specialist Medicine
Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata
Interview Date: 31 October 2025
We are recruiting for an Locum Consultant Respiratorywho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a Consultant (Locum fixed term 12 month job in the first instance) to come join the respiratory team and support our new respiratory ward and help manage our out-patient clinic work. We welcome a candidate with an interest in ILD or sleep and ventilation but other sub-specialty interests will be considered and accommodated if possible.
The chest department is part of Medical and Emergency Care Division. The Consultants in the Respiratory department are not on the General Medical rota but run a weekend ward cover service. The advertised post does not currently have any on-call / OOH commitments but this can be re-visited depending on individual candidate needs and the departments requirements.
The post holder is expected to be able to manage Respiratory patients both as Inpatients and Outpatients. The post holder will be integrated into our Respiratory Team roster for ward and in addition to general respiratory clinics (and speciality clinics depending on the successful candidates interests).
Our subspecialty clinics include, ILD, asthma, sleep & ventilation, TB, pleural and lung cancer.
We have a large Sleep and Ventilation service including domiciliary ventilation, supported by an experienced physiologist and CNS team. We run monthly ILD MDMs linked in with the Guys and St Thomas ILD service and have a dedicated ILD Pharmacist supporting the team.
Secretarial support and an adequately equipped office will be provided including IT facilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a Consultant (Locum fixed term 12 month job in the first instance) to come join the respiratory team and support our new respiratory ward and help manage our out-patient clinic work. We welcome a candidate with an interest in ILD or sleep and ventilation but other sub-specialty interests will be considered and accommodated if possible.
The chest department is part of Medical and Emergency Care Division. The Consultants in the Respiratory department are not on the General Medical rota but run a weekend ward cover service. The advertised post does not currently have any on-call / OOH commitments but this can be re-visited depending on individual candidate needs and the departments requirements.
The post holder is expected to be able to manage Respiratory patients both as Inpatients and Outpatients. The post holder will be integrated into our Respiratory Team roster for ward and in addition to general respiratory clinics (and speciality clinics depending on the successful candidates interests).
Our subspecialty clinics include, ILD, asthma, sleep & ventilation, TB, pleural and lung cancer.
We have a large Sleep and Ventilation service including domiciliary ventilation, supported by an experienced physiologist and CNS team. We run monthly ILD MDMs linked in with the Guys and St Thomas ILD service and have a dedicated ILD Pharmacist supporting the team.
Secretarial support and an adequately equipped office will be provided including IT facilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration and a license to practice
- MRCP (or equivalent)
Knowledge
Essential
- Competency in the management of all aspects of Respiratory Medicine.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience in Pleural or Sleep Medicine is desirable
Value Based Question
Essential
- How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration and a license to practice
- MRCP (or equivalent)
Knowledge
Essential
- Competency in the management of all aspects of Respiratory Medicine.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience in Pleural or Sleep Medicine is desirable
Value Based Question
Essential
- How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?
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).
