Locum Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine

Job overview

The appointed consultant will join a friendly, supportive and enthusiastic respiratory team that works collaboratively with the matron, manager and wider multidisciplinary team. They will work closely with colleagues from other medical specialities.

The appointee will be expected to work closely with system partners to support streamlined admission and discharge pathways. The transformational context of this role presents a unique opportunity to co-design and deliver a best-in-class acute and general respiratory medicine service at King’s College Hospital.

The appointee will help Respiratory medicine further develop a population health agenda with community facing initiatives whilst also contributing to the airways service for our local population ensuring that service provision continues to be high-value and delivered to the highest standard and contribute to the cross site KHP research agenda. Frequent review of the service is anticipated to ensure that departmental strategic priorities are being met. The candidate will be expected to contribute to the leadership of the services. The appointed individual will be required to work cohesively within the department and with other tertiary services at King’s to provide expertise and support. The post holder will have both general medicine and respiratory responsibilities to both inpatients and outpatients and may include procedures such as bronchoscopy and pleural, and outpatient clinic commitments per week.

Main duties of the job

This is a partial replacement Consultant post with new virtual ward activity. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for respiratory and medical services with a specific focus on improving population health through closer working with community services, providing support to a virtual COPD ward and rapid access HOT and general/airways clinic for patients. The successful applicant will join enthusiastic, friendly and forward thinking Respiratory Consultants and will be supported to develop services further. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

Our , published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:

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At King’s, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The On-Call commitment is for a 1:9 weekends and is subject to ongoing review. It will involve a combination of weekend ward cover and medical take as part of the modernising medicine programme. There is also a separate non-resident respiratory on call commitment of 1 in 14. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities are the following:

· The provision of a first-class clinical service

· Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

· Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

· Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

· Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

· Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registerable medical qualification
• Full MRCP

Desirable criteria

• Other higher degree or diploma

Registration

Essential criteria

• Full registration with GMC

Training and experience

Essential criteria

• Wide experience in all aspects of respiratory, general medicine and population health

Administration

Essential criteria

• Experience in day-to-day organisation of respiratory service in a busy teaching hospital
• Information technology and general computer skills
• Familiar with current structure of National Health Service, including recent initiatives and changes.

Management and Leadership

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate leadership skills within multi-disciplinary teams

Audit and Quality Improvement

Essential criteria

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audits

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