TRUST DOCTOR IN CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY (ST1-2 EQUIVALENT)

Job overview

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

Candidates must possess good clinical skills as well as excellent communication skills with the ability to work well with others. Candidates must have Foundation competencies signed off – MRCS exam is desirable but not essential.

This post is from as soon as possible until August 2026. There may be a possibility to a further 6 months’ extension.

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 for a junior surgeon or doctor who wishes to gain some experience of cardiothoracic surgery, prior to applying for core surgical training posts or ST3 in cardiothoracic surgery. The aim of this post would be to develop clinical skills as a doctor, in particular skills related to cardiology/cardiothoracic surgery; to obtain basic surgical skills; and improve the CV by building up experience in audit and research with the aim of applying for a training post.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr. Muhammad Izanee Mydin on 0191 233 6161 (ext: 39566), or via email at [email protected]

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

• Day to day care of pre- and post-operative cardiac and thoracic surgery patients on the wards and in clinics
• Assist the advanced nurse practitioner team in the daily duties by covering 2 shifts a week on the ward
• Attend theatres and outpatient clinics on days not covering the ward
• 1st on-call for any HDU/ward emergencies
• Reviewing patients daily, requesting appropriate investigation and treating the patients based on EBM
• Seeks timely assistance from senior colleagues when appropriate

Administrative:

• Assist the ANP team with formulating discharge letters and TTOs
• Ensuring accurate and representative entries are made in the case notes following ward rounds/reviews
• Filling out appropriate referral forms whenever requested (e.g. for valve MDT)

Research/Audit:

• Participate actively in local audit and presentations; as well as attend the monthly M&M meetings
• Participate in any research activity and submit abstracts to meetings

Teaching:

• Attend the cardiothoracic weekly teaching and journal club
• Present at the weekly teaching
• Teaching and supervision of junior medical staff/medical and nursing students if appropriate

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.