Senior Clinical Fellow in Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant & MCS

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

This post is an exciting opportunity for postgraduate trainees in Cardiology to gain extensive experience and participate in the outpatient and inpatient multi-disciplinary assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with advanced heart failure including heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support.

This post is to commence as soon as possible / December 2026 for 12 months. Basic Hours Only, no on-call.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This post is an exciting opportunity for postgraduate trainees in Cardiology to gain extensive experience in the management of patients with advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.

The post will involve inpatient and outpatient care, right heart catheter and biopsy sessions, participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, and research

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Oscar Fernandez on +44 (0) 191 223 1727, or via email at oscar.fernandez@nhs.net Dr Adam McDiarmid on +44 (0) 191 223 1546, or at adam.mcdiarmid@nhs.net

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

• The successful appointee/ trainee will have the opportunity to work and gain clinical experience at the cardio-thoracic centre, specifically the inpatient and outpatient advanced heart failure and transplant unit at the Institute of Transplantation in the Freeman Hospital.
• A clear timetable of clinical duties primarily focused on the management of patients with advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, and ventricular assist device patients.
• To receive training for performing right heart catheterisation procedures, endomyocardial biopsies and cardiopulmonary exercise tests.
• The opportunity of learning about the management of advanced heart failure in adult congenital heart disease patients, including heart transplantation, and ventricular assist devices in this population.
• To supervise and train junior staff allocated to the Transplant Service.
• There will be protected research time included in the post, and opportunities to participate in research and clinical audit, including collaborative research with other research centres.
• This post provides the opportunity to learn and gain experience in the investigation and management of advanced heart failure patients.

Administrative:

• The successful appointee/ trainee will be responsible for maintaining inpatient and outpatient records, discharge summaries and communication with the advanced heart failure consultants, as well as specialist referring teams and General Practitioners regionally in adherence with GDPR and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust regulations.

Research:

• The successful appointee/ trainee will be encouraged and supported in the departments of clinical research and clinical trial activity related to clinical research projects in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. A time of 2 PAs per week will be protected for clinical research activities.

Teaching:

• The successful appointee/ trainee will have the opportunity to contribute to the teaching programme of undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees attached to the department which is part of the medical and surgical teaching and training programme for Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust.
• To participate in the Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance programme.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

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.