# Locally Employed Doctor ST3+ in Cardiology

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Blackpool
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Cardiology
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £67,325 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 6 months (1 Posting with On-calls)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-23T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09T11:33:20.456Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Blackpool/Blackpool_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Cardiology/Cardiology-v7682396
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7682396?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.blackpoolteachinghospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking to appoint 1 Cardiology Registrar. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience working as part of a dynamic cardiology team across secondary and tertiary care. The Lancashire Cardiac Centre continues to expand with a large team of Consultants and Junior Doctors working together across sub specialities.

A provider of Tertiary Cardiac Services for the 1.6 million population of Lancashire and South Cumbria, in a newly commissioned £52 million Lancashire Cardiothoracic Hospital the Trust Executive Team and Divisional Cardiac Board are committed to expanding Cardiac Services and this appointment is seen as an integral step in this expansion.

The Cardiac Division provide a full range of Invasive and Non-Invasive Diagnostic, and Interventional Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgical Services, through four Catheter Laboratories and four cardiothoracic theatres with potential to expand.

Post holder will be expected to be part of the on-call rota

### Main duties of the job

- Duties and Responsibilities
- Provision of in-patient care for the patients of all Consultants as required.
- To provide on- call at middle grade level on a full shift rota.
- Proficient in echocardiology
- Support for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the Catheter Lab.
- Supervision of specific exercise test sessions if required.
- Attendance at Cardiology Clinics at the Lancashire Cardiac Centre at Victoria Hospital Blackpool. Assist in chest pain clinics
- Dictation of discharge and clinic letters as required.
- Occasional teaching of Nursing Staff and Junior Doctors and  Medical Students

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure you read the Job description and Person Specification attached to the advert in full before applying.

## Person Specification

### Teaching

**Desirable**

- Experience of undergraduate teaching

### Experience

**Essential**

- Minimum of 2 years experience at ST level (or equivalent) in Cardiology
- Evidence of working effectively as a part of a multidisciplinary team

### Personal skills

**Essential**

- Venesection
- Arterial blood gas sampling
- Echocardiography

**Desirable**

- Experience in angiography/pacing

### Personal attributes

**Essential**

- A caring attitude to patients and ability to display empathy
- Good organisational skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to communicate effectively in English
- Ability to undertake on-call/shift working

### Knowledge and Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team

### Professional qualifications

**Essential**

- Primary medical qualification
- Full GMC Registration
- MRCP

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 880.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9941956)
- [person specification (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9941957)
- [application guide booklet (pdf, 511.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2617)
- [guidance on pre-employment checks (pdf, 64.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=447)
- [statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 43.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=448)

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