Locum Consultant in Sexual Health

This is an 8 PA fixed-term Locum Consultant post in the Department of Sexual Health and
Training (or within 6 months of completion of training and eligible for the specialist register)
in Genito-Urinary Medicine. The remit of the post-holder will be to work primarily within the
integrated sexual health service at the Denmark Hill site but also to flexibly provide support
at the Beckenham Beacon site if required. The post holder will be expected to work within
the multi-disciplinary teams in the Department of Sexual Health, providing clinical leadership
and supporting service developments. Additional clinical duties will be based around special
Provide consultant-led outpatient care to people living with HIV, including complex case management and long-term health monitoring.
Participate in the provision of integrated sexual health services, including the diagnosis and treatment of STIs and contraception.
Offer clinical leadership in managing acute and chronic HIV-related conditions.
Contribute to clinical governance activities, including audit, quality improvement, incident reporting, and service development.
Engage in teaching, mentoring, and supervision of junior medical staff, nurses, and other trainees.
Support ongoing clinical research and service evaluation projects within the department.
Work in alignment with Trust values, national guidelines, and local protocols to ensure safe, equitable, and evidence-based care.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts,
with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s
College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital
Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.
We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and
internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac,
haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.
Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and
**commitment towards**:
Brilliant People
Outstanding care
Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
To provide a high quality service for patients attending Kings College Hospital with sexual health and contraceptive needs +/- HIV care. This includes all aspects of prevention, testing and treatment as well as relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the department.
2. To share responsibility for covering colleague’s periods of annual leave, study leave and short-term sickness.
3. To provide clinical and educational supervision of junior medical staff, particularly Specialist Trainees and Foundation Doctors, as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
4. To support the educational development and training of nurses and non-clinical grades within the department
5. To be responsible for carrying out teaching and examination duties as required
and contributing to continuing medical education and clinical governance initiatives.
6. To contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trust’s
R&D framework and the department’s research strategy.
7. To contribute to clinical governance, risk management and the departmental
audit programme.
8. To take an active role in the delivery of the department’s strategy and to lead on service developments within the department that increase access and improve patient experience
9. To take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Division’s business plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding
service plans and developments with both internal and external agencies.
10. To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan or Sexual Health and HIV services.
11. To exercise professional and clinical leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include developing and delivering projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
12. To work in conjunction with clinical and professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the department is increased and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for junior colleagues.
13. To undertake management duties as agreed with the Clinical Leads for Sexual Health and HIV or Sexual & Reproductive Health.
14. To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food
hygiene.
To undertake