Consultant Cardiologist - Devices and Inherited Cardiac Conditions

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

We are looking for a substantive appointment to a Consultant Cardiologist post with an interest in implantable cardiac devices, device extraction and inherited cardiac conditions. The post holder will be expected to work in close collaboration with the existing team of consultant cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and allied specialities.

The post attracts 10 Programmed Activities per week for approximately a 1 in 9 on-call for electrophysiology at Freeman Hospital and 1:16 CCU at RVI/ Freeman Hospitals.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

We are advertising for a Consultant Cardiologist (10 PAs). This is a new post which will be working mainly at the Freeman Hospital Cardiothoracic Unit. The post-holder will have broad general cardiology skills with a special interest in complex device management, including extraction, and inherited cardiac conditions. There will be responsibilities to develop and contribute to continuing education, professional development, audit and research within the Division and the Trust. There is the expectation of collaborative working with colleagues, allied specialities and liaison with other disciplines throughout the trust and network.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Kristian Bailey by phone on 0191 28 21515 or via email at [email protected], or Dr Ruairidh Martin by phone on 0191 24 48320 or via email at [email protected].

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

• The post will form part of the consultant Electrophysiology on-call rota. The appointee will provide urgent assessment and opinions for patients presenting to the Freeman Hospital and referring hospitals across the region. Device sessions will be available in the Freeman Hospital catheter lab, dealing with patients presenting with brady and tachy-arrhythmias.
• The appointee will provide a device extraction service to the Freeman Hospital and surrounding region, managing device infections as well as other indications for extraction.
• The appointee will join a multidisciplinary team to deliver an inherited cardiac conditions service to the wider region, including management of arrhythmic, hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies.
• The appointee will provide in-patient opinions and, where appropriate, continuing supervision for patients with cardiology conditions.
• The appointee will contribute to the on-call consultant cardiologist of the week rota at the Freeman Hospital and/or Royal Victoria Infirmary with an anticipated frequency of 1:16, providing inpatient general cardiology services for patients on the coronary care unit, and general cardiology wards.

Administrative:

• The appointee will participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary audit and risk management activities.
• The appointee will assist the Cardiothoracic Directorate Manager and Clinical Director in the timely investigation of complaints – working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy.
• The appointee will contribute to the general organisation and running of Cardiothoracic Services within the Trust, working in collaboration with colleagues and report to the Clinical Director.
• The appointee will manage their own cardiac catheter lab sessions and clinics to ensure efficient use of resources, to include supervision of trainees. They will contribute to the management of the Cardiology Clinic service overall.

Research:

• The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis is on studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio.

Teaching:

• The appointee will participate in the teaching of undergraduate students in both medicine and dentistry. In particular the Cardiology Department provides intensive teaching during the Foundations of Clinical Practice Cardiology teaching week. In addition, the unit teaches students within various phases of the course, including, but not limited to, Student Selected Components and Hospital Based Practice teaching.
• The appointee will take an active role in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the department with specific responsibility for the education development of Foundation doctors, Core Medical Trainees, and Specialty Training Registrars.
• The appointee will participate in the teaching and training of any other health care professionals within the Directorate.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend.  As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.