Consultant in Cardiology

Job overview

Consultant in Cardiology  Coronary Intervention and TAVI

Full time (10PA)

Barts Health NHS Trust and St Bartholomew’s Hospital invites you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join the Interventional Cardiology & Structural departments as part of the Barts Heart Centre.

Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. Barts Health NHS Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in Britain and the cardiovascular centre is one of the largest of its kind in Europe, providing sector wide care to a population of over 6 million. Applications are invited for the above post which will be based at the Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust.

The Interventional Cardiology department is one of the biggest in the UK and Europe. Interventional Cardiology, along with Electrophysiology makes up one of the three clinical directorates within the Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The Barts Heart Centre is the biggest in the UK with its complement of 10 catherisation labs (5 of which are dedicated to Intervention).

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work within the Interventional Cardiology and structural heart intervention at Barts Heart Centre and will participate in the Heart Attack Centre rota (1 PA). The job plan will provide expert care to an expanding population of patients. The post-holder will be expected to be an independent operator for diagnostic and interventional cardiology procedures including TAVI. The post-holder will contribute fully to the general management of cardiac patients through ward rounds and outpatient clinics, and will be required to have received full accreditation in cardiology as a trainee.

The post-holder will support the overall delivery of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as the advice and guidance helpline.

Opportunities exist within all the departments to undertake research and education as a part of the Centre of Excellence Strategy of the Trusts.

This is an outline program, and the post holder will be expected to discuss and agree a detailed job plan including personal and professional objectives with the Clinical Directors for Interventional Cardiology and structural heart intervention

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Delivery and organisation of direct clinical care to patients, through all parts of the department, sharing equally in the workload and involving a multi-disciplinary workforce; to support other members of staff in doing so also. Provide clinical leadership, improve the patient experience and ensure the highest quality clinical care. Dedication to service development and quality improvement. Undertaking research – both laboratory and clinically-based, within the limits of clinical and service workload – publishing and presenting work nationally and internationally. Regular attendance and contribution to the Interventional Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention MDTs. Full engagement with the current Interventional Cardiology and Cardiovascular Prevention consultants, ensuring shared clinical decision-making and collaborative case management.