Locum Allergy Consultant

We are seeking to appoint a fixed term Locum Allergy Consultant (until September 2025) who will join the team in delivering outpatient clinics and day case activity. The job plan will depend on the skills and experience of the applicant.

The Allergy Service at Imperial College NHS Trust is a tertiary referral centre, seeing over 4000 patients per year and managing adults with complex multisystem allergic disease. The service consists of food and drug challenges, an immunotherapy service and an established transition service for young adults. The service has expanded rapidly in recent years with increasing food and drug challenge activity and the growing availability of novel diagnostic tests such as component specific IgE testing. The Allergy service is supported by a full multi-disciplinary team of specialist nurses, an allergy dietician and administrative staff. Nurses provide skin testing and patient educational support.

Allergy activity currently takes place across St Mary's and Hammersmith hospitals and there are close links with the lung function laboratories and the respiratory team.

Main duties of the job

The work programme will form part of the appointee's job plan. Job plans are subject to annual review.

The 10 PA Locum Allergy Consultant job plan comprises of 8.5 DCC PAs and 1.5 SPA per week.

DCC: 8.5 PA per week (including clinical activity, clinically related activity including administration)

SPA: 1.5 PA per week (including audit, clinical governance, CPD, education)

Working hours are between Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, 1 PA = 4 hours.

There are no on call commitments associated with this role.

There are no medical allergy trainees in the department, but all consultants play a role in supporting and developing the allergy specialist nurses. There is time in the job plan for this.

There are regular multi-disciplinary departmental meetings that include educational, governance and business planning aspects.

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Clinical Lead/ Clinical Director, and will be in response to the demands of the department and the training of the post holder. This is illustrative and not designed to be exhaustive.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.