Consultant in Cardiologist ( Adult Congenital Heart Disease)

Job overview

Consultant in Cardiologist ( Adult Congenital Heart Disease)

10PAs

The post will be appointed to the Barts Heart Centre, based at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. The merger of three cardiac services into the new cardiovascular centre creates a new world-class institution that will provide state of the art cardiovascular care to a population of six million people. Under the leadership of the local academic health science network, UCL Partners, we are striving for excellence in academic and clinical domains, including the appointment of new clinical academics to ensure future excellence.

The adult CHD service provides all aspects of care to around 12000 patients.  There is a busy surgical and congenital interventional programme and sub-speciality services including pregnancy, PHT, Aortopathy and Transition (based at GOSH). This is envisaged as a general congenital post but suitable subspecialties are encouraged if appropriate to service requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care.
• Leadership, development and organisation of the services in his/her charge in line with the Trusts’ business plans. Liaison and communication with the Clinical Director for ACHD, General Manager and Director for the Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group.
• With the agreement of the Clinical Director and Clinical Academic Group Director, development of his/her own interests and sub-specialities within the specialty, in line with business planning principles and commissioners’ approval, including active participation in research programmes.
• Corporate and individual responsibility for the professional management of doctors in training.
• To participate fully in the management of the department and to liaise closely with the Clinical Director, Service Manager, General Manager and Clinical Academic Group Director.
• The post holder may be required to carry out other duties in emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.

The duties outlined are not definite and may be changed in accordance with needs of the service requiring the post holder to be cooperative and flexible

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• To work within the adult CHD team.  This is envisaged as a general congenital post but suitable subspecialties are encouraged if appropriate to service requirements.
• He/she will also provide outpatient care for new and follow-up patients with CHD at the Basildon outreach clinic
• There is an in-patient care commitment for adults with CHD with a Consultant of the Week model on a 1:7 basis.  He/she will join an on-call rota, which provides 24/7 CHD cover on a 1 in 7 rota.  This includes care for post operative CHD patients.  The out of hours rota requires a commitment based from home, which includes phone call availability and consult for acutely sick admissions, and a weekend ward round.
• OP clinics have typically 8-10 patients with 2-4 new patients per list. The in-patient workload is often around 5- 8 patients but varies considerably (includes post op patients)
• Participation weekly (and rotational chair) at the main Congenital MDT’s, a once monthly MDT for simple intervention, and other appropriate MDTs.
• The post holder will fully contribute to the administrative, teaching and research activities within Barts Health and the Heart Hospital. All consultants represent the department on various committees within the trust as well as taking responsibility for particular delegated areas according to their interests and availability. The Clinical Director is responsible for delegating these responsibilities.
• The appointee will contribute to the teaching of medical students and trainee cardiologists, and to participate in weekly postgraduate meetings as well as audit, governance and training meetings. Clinical governance is assuming ever greater importance within the NHS and there is strong emphasis on this area within Barts Health. The appointee will be expected to contribute and participate in governance activities in depth and breadth. A strong desire to improve governance standards is essential.