# Locum Cardiac Surgery Consultant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-cardiac-surgery-consultant/c34867f2-3aac-4159-ba20-c4362ff12016 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-cardiac-surgery-consultant/c34867f2-3aac-4159-ba20-c4362ff12016.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Cardiothoracic Surgery - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 to £150,569 WTE - **Contract type:** Locum: 12 months - **Employment type:** Full time - 11 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-06T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-20T12:20:58.455Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Surgery/Surgery-v8216403 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8216403?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This post is for a full‑time locum cardiac surgeon on a 12‑month appointment. Applicants who have been acting in a fully independent consultant surgeon role are preferred. Candidates should be able to demonstrate operational experience in combined surgical procedures and redo surgery. The postholder will join a cardiothoracic team comprising five cardiac consultants and four substantive thoracic consultant colleagues. This role will also require job plan flexibility to support service needs, including covering existing workforce gaps and contributing to waiting list reduction across the cardiac surgery service. ### Main duties of the job The successful candidate will be expected to attend weekly general cardiac and revascularisation MDTs and provide surgical revascularisation and valve surgery on an elective, urgent and emergency basis also to attend a weekly cardiac outpatients clinic. The post holder will join on a 1:5 on call rota to cover for cardiac emergencies and provide cardiac surgical support to the Major Trauma Centre at St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust. A consultant of the week arrangement has been introduced, covering the ward and providing pre/post-operative cover for patients while other consultants are off-site. The new appointment will have equity within the department with well-defined clinical commitments. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - See attached document for full job description. - - Locum Cardiac Surgeon (six-month appointment) - - Independent experience in combined surgical procedures and redo surgery - - Successful applicant will join on a 1:5 on call rota to cover for cardiac emergencies and provide cardiac surgical support to the Major Trauma Centre at St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust. A consultant of the week arrangement has been introduced, covering the wards and providing pre/post-operative cover for patients while other consultants are off-site. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Audit **Essential** - Understanding of principles of clinical audit ### Language **Essential** - Good knowledge of, and ability to use, spoken and written English ### Knowledge/skills **Essential** - Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit of personal operating log - IT Skills and computer literacy ### Teaching and training **Essential** - Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training. ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - MBBS or equivalent - FRCS or equivalent - On, or eligible for inclusion on, the GMC Specialist Register in Cardiothoracic Surgery - GMC Licence to Practise - Specific Training in Cardiac Surgery ### Leadership/ management skills **Essential** - Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems. - Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital - Ability to plan strategically and to exercise sound judgements when faced with conflicting pressures ### Peer reviewed publications on general cardiac surgical topics **Essential** - Academic achievements including research/publications ## Documents - [frf lcond237-ra (pdf, 240.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10555412) - [jd&ps lcon237-ra (pdf, 584.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10555411) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.