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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
23 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Audit
Evidence of participation in audit.
- Research
Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Teaching
Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
- Teaching
Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- Teaching
Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
- Clinical Experience
Evidence of experience in the specialty.
- Clinical Experience
Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
- Clinical Experience
Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
- Clinical Experience
Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
- Clinical Experience
Ability to perform heart and lung transplantation.
- Clinical Experience
NHSBT sign off for adult donor retrievals (DBD/DCD Lung)
- Clinical Experience
Evidence of training and experience in ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP)
- Clinical Experience
Experience in MCS insertion and management – Impella, ECMO, BIVAD, durable VAD
- Clinical Experience
Independent to perform organ retrieval for heart and lung transplantation
- Clinical Experience
Independent in conventional adult cardiac surgery
- Management and Administration Experience
Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
- Management and Administration Experience
Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
- Management and Administration Experience
An understanding of Clinical Governance. Demonstrates evidence in transplant service development.
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Primary Medical Qualification.
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Full GMC Registration.
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
FRCS (C-Th) or equivalent
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Recognised training in heart and lung transplantation in the form of a National or International Fellowship or similar.
Desirable
20 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Audit
Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
- Audit
Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.
- Research
Higher degree.
- Research
Research/critical review of literature.
- Research
Publications in the last five years.
- Teaching
Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
- Teaching
Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
- Clinical Experience
Previous Consultant level experience.
- Clinical Experience
Evidence of training and experience in machine perfusion of donor hearts (OCS)
- Clinical Experience
NHSBT sign off for adult and paediatric donor
- Clinical Experience
NHSBT sign off for adult DCD Heart
- Clinical Experience
NHSBT sign off for adult NRP
- Management and Administration Experience
Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
- Management and Administration Experience
Evidence of leadership / project management.
- Management and Administration Experience
Evidence of audit or clinical governance lead
- Management and Administration Experience
Evidence of having implemented change.
- Management and Administration Experience
Developing departmental SOPs for new technologies
- Management and Administration Experience
Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Higher Degree.
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Special skills training in the specialty.
Job overview
Consultant Cardiothoracic Transplant Surgeon - Organ Perfusion, Mechanical Circulatory Support & Cardiac Surgery
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join a long-established cardiothoracic service that has spanned nearly 40 years of experience in cardiothoracic transplantation. We are seeking to appoint a Consultant Surgeon in a substantive position whose primary role will be to support cardiothoracic transplantation (implantation), National organ retrieval service (NORS) (including DCD, NRP), ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP), Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the United Kingdom.
The prospective candidate will be required to support the Newcastle Organ Assessment Hub (NOAH) which is being developed as part of a multi-organ Assessment and Recovery Centre (ARC). Applicants should have experience in the full range of routine and emergency adult cardiac surgery with a proven ability to work within a multidisciplinary team. This prospective appointment will join a current team of 6 consultant cardiac and transplant surgeons.
Main duties of the job
Applicants should be independent in cardiac and lung transplantation/retrieval and are required to manage donor offers, carry out heart and also lung transplantation surgery and be involved in post-operative care, ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings. In addition, the applicant should be independent in donor retrievals and have had experience in mechanical circulatory support (including ECMO, Impella, temporary and durable VADs). There will be mentorship and clinical support for prospective colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post encompasses a substantive consultant position with expertise in heart and lung transplantation, ex-vivo lung perfusion and recovery, organ retrieval, Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) and cardiac surgery. The prospective post holder will be expected to provide service and cover duties within the heart and lung transplant programme, the MCS service, as well as transplant clinics, ward rounds and working within a well established multi-disciplinary team. There will be opportunities for involvement in conventional cardiac surgery.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Consultant Cardiothoracic Transplant Surgeon with The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Cardiothoracic Surgery role. The advertised salary is £113565.00 to £150569.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Sep 2026.
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