Workforce Directorate
Occupational Health Service, The Education Centre

From £75,249.00 per annum pro rata excluding of London Zone
Full -Time 10 PA a week (job share and request for part time to be considered)

The Occupational Health & Safety Service (OHSS) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is appointing a full time consultant to join our dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking team.  The OHSS is currently involved in many exciting initiatives and are looking for an individual with appropriate skills to complement this team and help keep the service in the forefront of clinical and academic excellence.  

The positions is to provide 1.0 whole time equivalent consultant (10 PA) with the potential to consider job share or part time working. In addition to general clinical work, the post-holder will have dedicated research time at least during the first 12 months of employment, will contribute to the clinical governance and will act as clinical and educational supervisors to Occupational Medicine trainees. 

Applications are invited from suitably qualified occupational physicians to provide clinical services across a wide range of clients comprising NHS, higher education and other sectors. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is one of the largest hospital Trusts in Britain and in Europe, having formed the Academic Health Sciences Centre in 2009, following  amalgamation with King’s College Hospital, the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London, and the Institute of Psychiatry. 

OHSS have been provided from both the Guy’s and St Thomas’ sites for nearly 40 years and more recently from Royal Brampton and Harefield sites as well.  The present OH Service is one of the largest and most advanced in Britain, and the first NHS service to be SEQOHS- accredited.  We provide services to the Trust, to healthcare students of King’s College London and to a number of other NHS and non-NHS institutions.  We are committed to training nurses and doctors; there are presently five specialty registrars, and two nurses training in Occupational Health.

This is a unique opportunity to become involved in OH research as the post holder will have 2 dedicated PAs (equivalent to one day) for research during the first 12 months of their employment.  This will be supported by the Research team led by Professor Ira Madan. Subject to developing a successful research portfolio, an extension to the research PAs beyond the first 12 months will be considered. 

OHSS provides a full range of occupational health service. OHSS lead the GSTT health and wellbeing programme. 
The post holder may deliver part of their job plan remotely. The rest of activities are expected to be delivered at the Education Centre, York Road or at the customer’s location. 

Applicants must be able to work well within a multi-disciplinary team and possess strong communication skills to promote innovation, effect change, and communicate effectively with managers and employees.  Experience of working in a large complex multi-disciplinary organisation would be an advantage.
 
Applicants must have full GMC registration, a licence to practise and be eligible for inclusion on the GMC’s Specialist Register.  Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to a Certificate of Completion of Training in Occupational Medicine, hold Membership or Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine or a Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR), or be within 6 months of achieving this.  Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable adults and/or children (0-18 years) and therefore 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 Criminal Records Bureau to check for any previous criminal convictions.

As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients.  This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends.  We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future.  As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract. 

For further information, please contact Dr Ali Hashtroudi, Clinical Director, on 020 7188 4152 or aliasad.hashtroudi@gstt.nhs.uk. 

To apply, please click the apply button.

Closing date:  Friday 31st March 2023, midnight.
Interview date: Thursday 20th April 2023. 

Please note that we will only accept online applications.  If you experience any difficulties with the on-line application process, please contact 020 7188 8990.

If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted.