Paediatric Respiratory Consultant: Sponsorship Available

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is a replacement Consultant post within the Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at King’s College Hospital. The post can be tailored to reflect the successful candidate’s specialist interests. The postholder will join an established team of five Consultants and will contribute to the delivery and development of the tertiary paediatric respiratory service. The postholder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary Paediatric Respiratory, Complex Asthma, and Cystic Fibrosis teams, providing high-quality care to patients and supporting the ongoing development of respiratory services within the Trust. They will also contribute to consolidating the department’s position as the leading provider of tertiary paediatric respiratory services for South London and the Southeast, and to the further development of outreach services, building on the existing cystic fibrosis clinical network.. Applicants must demonstrate experience in the investigation and management of children with both simple and complex respiratory disorders. Experience in long-term management of children requiring home ventilatory support is desirable. The precise remit will be aligned with the skills and interests of the successful candidate. The postholder will be primarily based at the Paediatric Respiratory and Cystic Fibrosis Centre within the Variety Children’s Hospital at King’s College Hospital, with the potential to undertake outreach clinics in the Southeast region.

Main duties of the job

The provision of a first-class clinical service

Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the speciality

Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the speciality, the Care Group or the Trust

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registerable medical qualification

Higher Qualifications

Essential

  • MRCPCH or equivalent
  • Higher research degree (e.g. MD or PhD)

Registration

Essential

  • Full Registration with GMC
  • Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment

Training and Experience

Essential

  • Wide experience in all aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine, with ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care, culminating in award of CCST or equivalent.
  • Accredited Specialist training in paediatric respiratory medicine with competencies in respiratory CSAC/RCPCH framework

Administration

Essential

  • Familiarity with day-to-day organisation of paediatric respiratory medicine services in a busy Teaching Hospital
  • Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
  • Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams

Desirable

  • Management course and/or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement

Essential

  • Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit.
  • Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.

Desirable

  • Audit Publications

Research and Publications

Essential

  • Experience of conducting or supporting clinical research in one or more aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine
  • Publication of relevant peer-reviewed reports

Desirable

  • Track record of excellent research in an area of paediatric respiratory medicine or evidence of potential to establish a research programme.

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of conducting or supporting clinical research in one or more aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine
  • Publication of relevant peer-reviewed reports

Desirable

  • Teaching skills course/qualification

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 21 August 2026

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