Locum Consultant Respiratory Physician in Lung Cancer

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The closing date is 04 January 2026

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This is a locum post fixed term for 12 months.

The objective of this post is to provide cover for respiratory consultant absence, by contributing to the existing work of the lung cancer team, including clinics and seeing new referrals, as well as contributing more widely to the respiratory work of the department, including seeing general referrals in clinic and providing cover to the respiratory ward on an attending Physician of the Week rota.

There are on calls for Freeman respiratory Medicine, approximately 1 in 8, with weekends on call also. The job plan is indicative and includes scope for pleural procedural work and bronchoscopy.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

• To support the existing general respiratory and lung cancer service.
• Contribute to the general adult respiratory in-patient service.
• Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine.

For an informal discussion ... contact:
Dr Andrew Stanton, Head of Respiratory Department
, on Ext 48365
, or via email at

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

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, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

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

• Seeing new and review general respiratory medicine patients
• Seeing new and review lung cancer patients in clinics.
• Participating in the weekly multidisciplinary lung cancer meeting
• Support the adult respiratory service with a commitment to flexibly arrange sessions as service demands change.
• Contribute to the Respiratory ward and look after respiratory in-patients.

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

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…