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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Clinical Fellow in Pleural
Closed for applications on: 25-Feb-2026 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 25-Feb-2026 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Rd
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End date: 5th Oct 2027)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £73,992 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow)
Specialty
- Main area
- Respiratory Medicine
- Interview date
- 09/03/2026
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
This post provides valuable opportunities for hands-on involvement service development, including the development of tertiary-secondary care partnerships, with appropriate support. It will therefore suit SpRs with a dedicated interest in pleural disease training and planned sub-specialisation at Consultant level. It can be tailored to suit the successful candidate as a post-CCT Fellowship or as an OOPE.
The post involves intensive clinical and procedural experience in managing pleural disease. The post holder will help oversee ongoing clinical trials.
The multidisciplinary service brings together three consultants with a special interest in pleural disease, two specialist nurses and clinical fellow. The service is supported by excellent radiology and histopathology departments. We run five day a week pleural lists, one joint physician/surgical pleural disease clinic and thoracoscopy lists.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a first class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment. The job will include overseeing clinical trials, database management, data analysis, one pleural clinic per week, pleural interventions and thoracic ultrasound imaging. The clinical service is complemented by a number of concurrent research projects covering a spectrum of clinical trials. The post holder will have the opportunity to develop their teaching skills by supporting our Simulation centre and residents with a weekly training list.
This post may close early if a sufficient number of applications have been received.
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· The Pleural Fellow will provide direct clinical care and have non-clinical duties as part of the Pleural Service
· Full training in all aspects of the diagnosis and management of pleural disease, including development of the research programme.
· Clinical duties will include, but is not limited to (see timetable below):
o Once weekly joint medical/surgical Pleural Clinic with ultrasound
o Responsibility for the Pleural referral inbox with appropriate consultant support
o Provide a service to inpatients including thoracic ultrasound to aid decision making
o Daily pleural intervention lists including advanced pleural interventions – thoracoscopy, US guided percutaneous pleural biopsy, IPC insertion and refining of ambulatory care pathways.
o Assist in reach for inpatients providing specialist input.
o Making early discharge plans for patients with pleural disease.
· Non-clinical duties will include:
o Updating the current pleural database
o Contributing to national and local audit projects
o Contributing to national and local research
o Attendance at meetings contributing to the delivery of the pleural service.
o Teaching and training medical, nursing and allied staff as well as medical students including providing support and training to the Pleural Specialist nurse, Respiratory SpRs and IMTs
Working for our organisation
Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust (GSTT) has merged with Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. As part of the new organisation respiratory sits within Heart, Lung and Critical care (HLCC) and pleural sits within the Care, pleural and intervention team.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world. Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the work. We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.
The Directorate of Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ (forming part of the GSTT Heart Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group). The directorate provides a comprehensive service for inpatient and outpatient settings from a body of 20 consultants. Respiratory consultants also contribute to the care of general medical and high-dependency patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As above. Please see the attached job description and person specification. For further details, please reach out to the contacts below.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP or equivalent
- National training number to work in the UK as at the level of a Specialist Registrar to attain CCT in Respiratory & General Internal Medicine OR already on GMC Specialist Register
Desirable criteria
- BSc or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Respiratory experience as a specialist registrar
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in pleural disease as a specialist registrar
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic ultrasound knowledge and familiarity with chest x-ray, CT scan and interpretation in the context of pleural disease
- Understanding of appropriate palliative care management strategies
Desirable criteria
- BTS Primary Operatory, level 4 or above
Audit Management & IT
Essential criteria
- Understanding of principles of audit
- Interpretation of clinical governance
- Management experience
Desirable criteria
- Database design
Research, Teaching skill & experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
- Evidence of research interest
Desirable criteria
- Proven record of publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals
- Successful applicant on peer-reviewed research grants
Leadership / Management skills
Essential criteria
- Communication: Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Accountability: Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
- Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
- Ability to work as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership in the development of a clinical service
- Ability to think strategically for clinical service and research agenda improvements
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Owais Kadwani
- Job title
- Respiratory Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Dr Owais Kadwani, Respiratory Consultant, [email protected] or Dr Poppy Denniston, [email protected].
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