Consultant in Adult Congenital Cardiology and Thoracic Aortopathy

Job overview

• Maintain the highest clinical standards in the management of patients with congenital heart disease and aortopathy
• Share with colleagues the responsibility for the day-to-day management of patients with congenital heart disease and aortopathy
• Promote new ways of working and coordinating care for patients in the community and to ensure that services are based on effective and integrated partnerships across the health community
• Take part in multidisciplinary case conferences
• Supervise and train junior medical staff
• Be involved in appraising and assessing juniors
• Develop roles in teaching, research and clinical leadership
• Proactively develop the service
• Actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit

Main duties of the job

The job plan can be divided into generic ACHD sessions at Glenfield (clinics, ward rounds, MDT meeting contribution and on-call duties), generic ACHD sessions within the Network (clinics) and sub-specialty sessions in ACHD cardiac imaging (MRI) and sessions related to thoracic aortopathy (clinics, MDT meetings, imaging session). The job plan will be subject to annual review, with any revisions sought by mutual agreement but it is expected that the successful candidate will work with the CMG management team to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and reflect best practice with processes and governance to match - this may require new and flexible ways of working in the future.

Whole time consultants within the Trust are allocated 1.5 PA’s for Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) in order to support the requirements of revalidation, which include activities such as participating in audit, CPD and mandatory training. Up to a further 1 PA may be made available for SPA by mutual agreement with the CMG as part of the job planning process. This must constitute appropriate verifiable SPA activity that supports an individual’s professional development and provides benefit to UHL. Where a consultant decides not to undertake additional SPA over and above 1.5 PA’s or where those opportunities have not been identified, suitable alternative clinical work will be offered to bring the job plan up to 10 PA’s.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To participate in service development and business planning in collaboration with the other Consultants in the department, the CMG and local GPs, commissioners within the local CCGs and Specialised Commissioners at NHS England & Improvement
• Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally.

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.