Senior Clinical Fellow SpR/StR - ST4 – ST9 (MT05)

Main area: Senior Clinical Fellow in Respiratory - SpR/StR - ST4 – ST9 (MT05)

Grade: ST4 - ST9

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)

Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week

Job ref: 213-Division-A-8000323

Employer: King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Location: London

Salary: £73,992 per annum, plus London £2,162

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 15/06/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a replacement post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients within the service. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff. It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the development and delivery of aspects of these services depending upon their interests and experience.

Main duties of the job:

• The provision of a first-class clinical service.
• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.
• 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 specialty, the Care Group or the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Together with other colleagues to provide a service for patients, including all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis.
• Responsible for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness.
• Participation in Multi-disciplinary Meetings.
• Contribution to audit and clinical governance programmes.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group management team.
• Contribute to the Care Group research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
• Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, clinical governance programmes and learning from Deaths.
• Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Registerable medical qualification. MRCPCH or equivalent. Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD).
• Registration: Full registration with GMC/GDC with License to Practice.
• Training and Experience: Wide experience in all aspects of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis. Specialist training in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine.
• Audit & quality improvement: Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit and quality improvement. Relevant research experience, publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
• Research: Experience of conducting or supporting clinical research.
• Administration: Experience in day to day organisation of services in a busy Teaching Hospital. Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.
• Personal Skills: Effective communicator, able to work in a close-knit team and co-operate with all medical and paramedical staff. Flexible and resilient. Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills.
• Management and Leadership: Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Certification: You must have appropriate UK professional registration.