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Job overview

This is a locum post for six months in the first instance.  The post-holder will contribute to the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Service, based at The Hammersmith Hospital (HH) at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. 

We are a tertiary, NHSE commissioned prescribing service, with dedicated ILD Coordinator, ILD Clinical Nurse Specialist, and ILD Pharmacist support. The Hammersmith currently runs 7 consultant-led ILD clinics a week, including a sarcoidosis clinic; a pulmonary vasculitis clinic alongside renal, rheumatology, and ENT; and a CTD-ILD clinic alongside rheumatology. There is a quarterly scleroderma ILD clinic. There are weekly ILD radiology MDT and clinical MDT meetings, a weekly vasculitis MDT, and a monthly cardiac sarcoid MDT. There are day case admission facilities at Hammersmith and Charing Cross sites. There is close collaboration with the Hammersmith National Pulmonary Hypertension Service, and the Harefield and Papworth lung transplant services. 

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will also contribute to the acute medical take at Charing Cross Hospital (CXH) and participate in the respiratory ward consultant rota, which includes the care of patients with acute primary respiratory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation on the recently-refurbished Acute Respiratory Unit at CXH. 

This post, therefore, represents an opportunity to deliver excellent care to patients with respiratory disease, including ILD, in a specialist tertiary NHS England commissioned centre, supported by a well-established multi-disciplinary team.  It would be suitable for both a post-CCT candidate looking to develop as a consultant in a supportive team or for a more established consultant looking to move to a larger organisation.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.