Job summary
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 kelvin.lau@nhs.net.
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.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job 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 Europes 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
Job description
Job 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 Europes 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent
- FRCS(CTh) or equivalent
- On GMC Specialist Register for Cardiothoracic Surgery or within 6 months of obtaining CCT.
Desirable
- Higher Research Degree (e.g., MD or PhD)
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Training in Adult Thoracic Surgery and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion in thoracic surgery for emergency and elective situations.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients throughout their clinical pathways.
- Proficiency in minimally invasive surgery
Desirable
- Demonstrable operative experience in robotic surgery including segmentectomy.
- Experience in guided bronchoscopy
- Experience in lung volume reduction interventions
Management/Audit Experience
Essential
- Able to provide evidence of clinical audit and demonstrate impact and handling challenges.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and awareness of current and future NHS challenges and strategy.
- Ability to support team members in business planning via collaboration and discussion.
Desirable
- Evidence of innovative approaches to healthcare
- Evidence of experience setting up new services
Academic Achievements
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate personal experience of academic research and describe and discuss findings and impact.
Desirable
- Experience in basic science research
Research
Essential
- Experience of research, presentations to learned societies
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems
Desirable
- Evidence of continued research output
- Ability to supervise research and engage peers
- Ability to identify clinically impactful research questions
Publications
Essential
- Peer-reviewed publications in the field of thoracic surgery in indexed journals
Desirable
- Evidence of collaboration with industry and other organisations and conducting national and international multicentre research
Teaching/Training
Essential
- Experience teaching and training undergraduates, junior doctors and allied professionals
- Attendance of Training the Trainers or equivalent course
Desirable
- Experience of supervising SPR's
- Experience of teaching at Postgraduate level.
- Experience organising teaching events and courses
Personal Skills
Essential
- Persuasive presentational and verbal skills.
- Ability to motivate and develop medical trainees.
- IT skills and computer literacy
- Ability to manage time well to deliver objectives of the CAU
- Awareness of best practice through evidence-based medicine, and personal drive to enact the change with the team
Desirable
- Database management
- Knowledge of statistics
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach to work.
- Ability to work under pressure
- Caring attitude to patients.
- Commitment to continuing medical education.
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level.
- Collegiate approach to work and colleagues
- Ability to drive change through collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders.
- Willingness to challenge the norm in a positive manner while building a team ethos, to deliver consistently high levels of care for patients in a productive and cost-effective manner.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent
- FRCS(CTh) or equivalent
- On GMC Specialist Register for Cardiothoracic Surgery or within 6 months of obtaining CCT.
Desirable
- Higher Research Degree (e.g., MD or PhD)
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Training in Adult Thoracic Surgery and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion in thoracic surgery for emergency and elective situations.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients throughout their clinical pathways.
- Proficiency in minimally invasive surgery
Desirable
- Demonstrable operative experience in robotic surgery including segmentectomy.
- Experience in guided bronchoscopy
- Experience in lung volume reduction interventions
Management/Audit Experience
Essential
- Able to provide evidence of clinical audit and demonstrate impact and handling challenges.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and awareness of current and future NHS challenges and strategy.
- Ability to support team members in business planning via collaboration and discussion.
Desirable
- Evidence of innovative approaches to healthcare
- Evidence of experience setting up new services
Academic Achievements
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate personal experience of academic research and describe and discuss findings and impact.
Desirable
- Experience in basic science research
Research
Essential
- Experience of research, presentations to learned societies
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems
Desirable
- Evidence of continued research output
- Ability to supervise research and engage peers
- Ability to identify clinically impactful research questions
Publications
Essential
- Peer-reviewed publications in the field of thoracic surgery in indexed journals
Desirable
- Evidence of collaboration with industry and other organisations and conducting national and international multicentre research
Teaching/Training
Essential
- Experience teaching and training undergraduates, junior doctors and allied professionals
- Attendance of Training the Trainers or equivalent course
Desirable
- Experience of supervising SPR's
- Experience of teaching at Postgraduate level.
- Experience organising teaching events and courses
Personal Skills
Essential
- Persuasive presentational and verbal skills.
- Ability to motivate and develop medical trainees.
- IT skills and computer literacy
- Ability to manage time well to deliver objectives of the CAU
- Awareness of best practice through evidence-based medicine, and personal drive to enact the change with the team
Desirable
- Database management
- Knowledge of statistics
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach to work.
- Ability to work under pressure
- Caring attitude to patients.
- Commitment to continuing medical education.
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level.
- Collegiate approach to work and colleagues
- Ability to drive change through collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders.
- Willingness to challenge the norm in a positive manner while building a team ethos, to deliver consistently high levels of care for patients in a productive and cost-effective manner.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
