Locum Consultant in Thoracic Surgery

Job overview

We are delighted to offer the opportunity for a locum thoracic surgeon to join the Barts Thorax Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust. The appointment will be for 6 months in the first instance.

Barts Health NHS trust is the largest NHS Trust in the UK serving a population of 2.5 million. The Barts Thorax Centre is an integrated unit designed around the patient journey, bringing together thoracic surgery, respiratory medicine and thoracic oncology at a single location.

This is strengthened by co-location with the Barts Heart Centre, the largest cardiovascular centre in Europe, and the Barts Cancer Centre, with their extensive research infrastructure, allowing immediate and on site care of their most common comorbidities.

The successful applicant will join a growing department of thoracic surgery which offers the full spectrum of thoracic surgery and is expanding its activity. The department has its own dedicated facilities including new, spacious wards and a dedicated team of junior doctors.

Informal enquiries can be made to Mr Kelvin Lau, Clinical Director for thoracic surgery, on 0203 465 58843 or by email to [email protected].

Please be advised that the vacancy advertisement may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received therefore, we recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment

Main duties of the job

Barts Health is looking for a Locum Consultant Thoracic Surgeon. This is an exciting position with opportunity for the successful applicant to join the Barts thoracic surgery team to develop its lung volume reduction, robotic surgery and research programmes. The successful candidate will be based at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

There is currently a team of 4 substantive consultant thoracic surgeons,1 locum consultant thoracic surgeon and 1 cardiothoracic surgeon with a specialist interest in chest wall.

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to direct and participate in academic research at QMUL.
• The advertised consultant thoracic surgical post attracts 10 PA’s which will be 8.5 DCCs’ and 1.5 SPAs’.  The on-call commitment will be 1:5 emergency on call rota with trauma provision at The Royal London Trauma Centre.
• The successful candidate will need to demonstrate professional excellence, leadership and the ability to deliver effective care. He/she will need to agree levels of activity and throughput with the Clinical Director of Surgery. The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Respiratory medicine is co-located on the 4th floor along with lung function tests and bronchoscopy suites

Barts is an immunotherapy Centre of Research Excellence (imCORE centre) and part of a global network of basic and clinical scientists from 26 leading academic research institutions in cancer immunotherapy who work together to accelerate the characterisation of complex biology and drive novel immunotherapy combination strategies to identify ways for more patients to benefit from immunotherapy. Prof P. Schmid and Prof T. Powles are the scientific leads of the Barts imCORE centre.

Radiotherapy, Brachytherapy and Cyberknife centre and Chemotherapy suites

On site specialist thoracic radiologists

Co-located cardiology and cardiac surgery. Barts is Europe’s largest specialized cardiovascular centre, covering a population of three million people across north and east London, west Essex and beyond, and is the largest cardiac surgical unit in the UK. Barts performs more heart surgery, MRI and CT scans than any other centre in the UK, and has a internationally renowed research programme.

This co-location ensures patients with cardiac comorbidities can access timely advice, investigations and treatments at their fingertips, and allows high risk patients with cardiorespiratory comorbities to be treated safely