# Respiratory Medicine Consultant - Screening Lead - lung cancer & EBUS

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St George's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Respiratory Medicine
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-12T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T09:41:17.660Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Tooting/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Respiratory_Medicine/Respiratory_Medicine-v8248037
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8248037?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant in Respiratory Medicine- lead for lung cancer screening at St George’s and with sub speciality interest in lung cancer and EBUS.

10PAs St George’s Hospital

This is a 12 month locum post, that provides an opportunity for an enthusiastic physician to provide respiratory services at St George’s Hospital. The successful candidate will join a group of 12 other consultants affiliated to the respiratory department at St George’s.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to visit for informal discussion, contact details below:

- Dr Helen Meredith, Respiratory Care Group Lead

Helen.Meredith0@stgeorges.nhs.uk

Provisional Date for Interview: TBC

### Main duties of the job

- To provide a clinical service in respiratory medicine as part of a team of respiratory specialists.
- To participate in clinical and other service activities with the objective of ensuring a high standard of patient care; including general respiratory, sleep and cancer clinics
- To lead the delivery of the lung cancer screening programme review meetings at St George’s and work within the lung cancer team.
- To participate in the delivery of the regional EBUS service.
- To contribute to service developments
- To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. Depending on the skills of the candidate, this could involve managing the respiratory clinical placements and other medical student clinical experience as well as the teaching program for the respiratory doctors.
- To contribute to the management of the service.
- Full consideration will be given to applicants who wish to apply for a less than full time post and we welcome enquires regarding that.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full breakdown of the main responsibilities for Consultant in Respiratory Medicine- lead for lung cancer screening at St George’s and with sub speciality interest in lung cancer and EBUS position

### 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

### Other

**Desirable**

- Driving Licence

### Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to take on independent clinical responsibility whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to demonstrate leadership capabilities within multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to communicate effectively with GPs and other professionals in hospital and community
- Evidence of experience in day to day organisation of General Medical and Respiratory services in a hospital setting
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit, must have undertaken and completed audit projects recently
- Familiarity with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

**Desirable**

- Ability to develop research projects and supervise trainees in their research
- Evidence of training to be an educational supervisor

### Experience

**Essential**

- Demonstrable experience of Clinical Governance activities in the last year
- Demonstrable experience in teaching
- Evidence of an understanding of how one may set up a new service – business plans, service development

**Desirable**

- Experience of working within a mutli-disciplinary integrated respiratory team
- Teaching skills course/qualification
- Demonstrable experience in research with an appropriate publication record

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- MRCP or Equivalent
- Full registration with GMC
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Respiratory and General Medicine via o CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) o CESR or o European Community Rights
- Ability to bronchoscope independently and be able to supervise specialist trainees

**Desirable**

- An appropriate higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent)
- Advanced Life Support Certificate
- Post graduate teaching qualifications
- Ability to perform EBUS independently

### Person Disposition

**Essential**

- Caring attitude to patients
- Flexible and co-operative approach to colleagues and team members
- Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing medical education
- Commitment to uphold St George’s values

## Documents

- [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045)
- [consultant in respiratory medicine- lead for lung cancer screening at st george’s and with sub speciality interest in lung cancer and ebus (pdf, 752.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10559949)

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