Clinical Fellow in ACHD Imaging

Job summary

Main duties of the job

1. Clinical Imaging

Supervise and provisionally report ACHD cardiac MRI studies with progressive autonomy

Participate and provisionally report in 2-3 ACHD MRI sessions weekly, +/- 1 stress imaging and unsupervised scan sessions

Attend 1 CT or TOE session/ week, depending upon subspecialty interest

Produce timely provisional reports and liaise with supervising consultants

Maintain a logbook aligned with EACVI competency requirements

Present imaging at ACHD MDT meetings

2. Clinical Care

Participate in one ACHD clinic per week

Contribute to ACHD ward rounds (1:4-1:5 rota)

Provide imaging-informed input into patient management

3. Research & Academic Work

Contribute to clinical research in congenital cardiac MRI and advanced imaging

Work in accordance with ICH GCP and research governance frameworks

Support data collection, database management and study documentation

Participate in analysis of imaging datasets

Contribute to presentations, publications and grant applications

Maintain awareness of evolving clinical research regulations

4. Teaching

Contribute to the teaching of junior doctors, physiologists and allied professionals

Participate in departmental educational meetings

Support training of colleagues in cardiac imaging

5. Governance & Professional Standards

Adhere to Trust policies on confidentiality, safeguarding and risk management

Maintain up-to-date mandatory training

Comply with research governance and data protection standards

Job responsibilities

The Liverpool Congenital Cardiac Service is the Level 1 Specialist Surgical Centre for the North West of England and North Wales. It provides specialised congenital heart services for a catchment of circa 8.6million people with around 25,000 congenital heart disease patients with across the region.

Alder Hey Children's Hospital will provide Level 1 services for children with CHD. Level 1 services for adults with congenital heart disease will be provided jointly by Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Specialised Obstetric Services are delivered jointly between Liverpool and Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust.

The LHCH Cardiovascular Imaging Unit is well-established. The echocardiography department has BSE advanced training accreditation, performs 14,000 echocardiograms performed per year, including stress echocardiography, TOE and advanced echocardiograms.

We have a large cross-sectional cardiac imaging service at LHCH. We have 2 dedicated MRI for our cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) service: 1.5T cardiac optimized Siemens Sola MR and a 3T VIDA Siemens scanners on the LHCH site, and perform 5,000 Cardiac MRIs annually. We are an accredited EACVI CMR laboratory.

We also have 2 dedicated computed tomography (CT) scanners, Siemens FORCE CT scanners and perform 3,000 Cardiac CT annually.