# Locum Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-in-paediatric-respiratory-medicine/ae686132-1ac9-425c-953c-24d3e70c318f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-in-paediatric-respiratory-medicine/ae686132-1ac9-425c-953c-24d3e70c318f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Evelina London Children's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Paediatrics - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term/Locum) - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-04T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-21T11:31:10.453Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatric_Respiratory_Medicine/Paediatric_Respiratory_Medicine-v8289749 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8289749?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Children's Cardiorespiratory and Intensive Care Directorate are currently seeking a full time locum paediatric respiratory consultant. The successful candidate will have a broad expertise in PRM. The candidate should have completed national grid specialist respiratory training or its equivalent and ideally have engaged in research and obtained or be engaged in achieving a higher degree. ### Main duties of the job The Evelina London Children’s Hospital is seeking 1 full-time (up to 10 PA) specialist consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine. The post will join the other paediatric respiratory specialists in providing a respiratory clinical service arising from the increased number of tertiary referrals to the respiratory, airway, sleep and ventilation services and the need to provide additional support to the wide-range of specialist children’s services based at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. This new post will add additional clinical support to the general respiratory inpatient cover and outpatient general respiratory clinics. An interest in the following specialist areas is encouraged: - Asthma and Severe and Difficult to Control Asthma Service - The Respiratory Assessment Unit - Long term ventilation service including existing inpatient and outpatient respiratory and long-term ventilation services and the development of a regional LTV network. - Complex Airway & Interventional Bronchoscopy Service The post-holder will be expected to take a role in research and development to keep the Evelina at the forefront of clinical and academic excellence, and to participate in the teaching programs of the department. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Job Summary: - To provide children’s respiratory services to the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care - To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training - To contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development Provide High Quality Care to Patients - The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice - To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post. - To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities. - To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views. ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### Clinical Skills **Essential** - Skills to manage acutely ill children in a complex tertiary hospital setting. - Ability to initiate long term home ventilation (invasive and non-invasive) - Ability to interpret paediatric cardiopulmonary sleep studies - Accredited to perform paediatric bronchoscopy ### Clinical Experience **Essential** - Comprehensive clinical experience in paediatric respiratory medicine and experience in providing long term ventilation - Experience of managing safeguarding cases - Experience in managing problems with sleep, particularly sleep-disordered breathing **Desirable** - Previous experience at consultant level in paediatric respiratory medicine ### Audit Management & IT **Essential** - Track record of clinical governance, audit, management and IT skills - Understanding of principles of audit - Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team - Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management - Training in child protection **Desirable** - Ability to advise and contribute to planning of service developments - Management training or qualification ### Professional Qualifications **Essential** - Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise. - On GMC Specialist Register for general paediatrics or within six months of attaining CCT or equivalent - On GMC Specialist Register for Paediatric Respiratory medicine or within six months of attaining CCT or equivalent - MRCPCH or equivalent **Desirable** - Postgraduate degree ## Documents - [locum consultant jd (pdf, 608.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10607545) - [person specification (pdf, 48.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10607546) - [functional requirement form (pdf, 616.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10607547) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.