Locum Consultant Respiratory and General Internal Medicine (S&O)


Company:	St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Salary:	£113,565 - £150,569 Per Annum, (Pro Rata, If Part Time) (Grade YM 73)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Southport, PR9 6PN
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	24 Jul 2026
Closing date:	30 Aug 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Applications are invited for a 12 month fixed term Locum Consultant post in Respiratory and General (internal) Medicine.

This is a whole-time post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK or equivalent qualifications)

Due to the short-term nature of the role / service demand, the successful candidate must hold full registration with the GMC and have existing right to live and work in the UK, at the time of application. Candidates who are not GMC registered or do not hold existing right to live and work in the UK, at the time of application will not progress through to the shortlisting stage.

An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.

This full time NHS post will enable the Trust to continue the delivery of Respiratory services across the primary/secondary care interface, support delivery of acute care for respiratory patients and achieve waiting time targets for outpatients and emergency care.

Successful candidates will complement existing General Respiratory and lung cancer team

Weekday on call commitment. The weekday on call rota (General Medicine) will be a 1 in 14 providing telephone advice between the hours of 7pm and 9am (Monday - Friday) and 5pm - 9am (Saturday & Sunday).

Time off in lieu or a hybrid of time off in lieu and payment can be offered for oncall commitment

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing Respiratory service on the Southport Site at Mersey & West Lancashire Hospital.

The Consultant appointments to these posts will deliver sessions of care to general medicine inpatients on the ward in conjunction with 1 General Respiratory weekly outpatient clinic, 2 Lung Cancer weekly clinics (1 for new patients and 1 for follow-up patients) on our Ormskirk site, in-reach service for a selected acute respiratory admission ward round, as well as bronchoscopy services.

• The Respiratory department currently is made up of 4 full time Respiratory Consultants

• The Consultants appointed to these posts will help to supervise and work alongside 2 respiratory ST3+ trainees, 1 specialty doctor and 1 senior clinical fellows. This is complemented by larger team of 3 foundation year trainees, 2 internal medicine trainees (IMT1 & IMT2)/GP trainees, a Physician Associate and ACP

• The medical team is also supported by 2 equivalent full time lung cancer nurses and a lung cancer support worker as well as 2.6 equivalent full time general respiratory specialist nurses.

This advert closes on Friday 4 Sep 2026

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