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Address: Royal Victoria Infirmary; Queen Victoria Road; Newcastle upon Tyne; Tyne and Wear; NE1 4LP
Contact Number: 0191 282 0999 option 2

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Ref: 317-CON-26-097 Vacancy ID: 7914232

Consultant in Respiratory Medicine - special interest in Lung Cancer

Accepting applications until: 13-Apr-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 13-Apr-2026 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Freeman Hospital
Tref: Newcastle upon Tyne
Cod post: NE6 4LH
Major / Minor Region: Tyne and Wear

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent: Start date October 2026
Oriau: Full time - 10 sessions per week (plus on call)

Salary

Cyflog: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Respiratory Medicine

Dyddiad y cyfweliad: 27/04/2026

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

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Clinical:

This post will support the general respiratory and multi-disciplinary lung cancer service by:

1. Seeing new and review lung cancer patients in clinics

2. Seeing new and review general respiratory medicine patients

3. Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung cancer meeting

4. Contribution to the bronchoscopy and EBUS service

5. Support the adult respiratory service with a commitment to flexibly arrange sessions as service demands change and developing clinics in line with needs of patients, NUTH respiratory teams and own clinical interests.

6. Contribute to the Respiratory ward and look after respiratory inpatients.

The appointee will have an equitable share in the attachment of junior medical staff and secretarial support.

Administrative:

The appointee will be expected to organise and ensure probity of their clinical practice and that of their supporting team so as to provide coordinated, quality care to patients in line with wider departmental objectives. This would include, for example, providing timely responses to clinical and related correspondence, appropriate management of waiting lists, supervision and assessment of trainees.

The appointee may also be required to support colleagues or the clinical director in running aspects of the department from time to time. This may include timely investigation of complaints – working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy.

The appointee will:

· Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Physicians

· Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays

· It is a condition of employment that so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:

-be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control

-attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control

-include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development

-take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleague

Audit and CPD:

The Trust supports requirements for continuing professional development as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing support for these activities

Research:

The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided.

Teaching:

As with all other colleagues, the appointee will be expected to contribute to teaching activity when required as part of their appointment. The hospital is also a designated teaching centre for undergraduate medical students from Newcastle University. The appointee will be expected to attend and contribute at departmental meetings, administrative, audit, governance and academic teaching.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

Meini prawf hanfodol

Primary Medical Qualification.
Full GMC Registration
Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).

Meini prawf dymunol

Higher Degree

Clinical Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol

Evidence of experience and competence in bronchoscopy
Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
At least British Thoracic Society CiP level 4 Primary TUS operator
Evidence of experience and training in management of patients with lung cancer
Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.

Meini prawf dymunol

Evidence of experience and competence in Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)

Management and Administration Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol

Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the directorate to the Trust and its workforce
An understanding of Clinical Governance

Meini prawf dymunol

Ability to run a respiratory service and participate in management process
Involvement with unit management and project leadership
Proven management and administration ability and understanding of management goals
Evidence of leadership and project management
Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Ability to review clinical guidelines

Teaching

Meini prawf hanfodol

Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills

Meini prawf dymunol

Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
Ability to teach clinical, technical and practical skills

Research

Meini prawf dymunol

Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
Higher degree. Research/critical review of literature.
Publications in the last five years.

Audit

Meini prawf hanfodol

Evidence of participation in audit.

Meini prawf dymunol

Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.

Personal Attributes

Meini prawf hanfodol

Alignment with the Trust’s values.
Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
A commitment to personal / unit CPD.
Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota.
Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.