Trust Fellow in Interventional Cardiology / Senior TAVI Fellow (ST3+)

Job overview

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

The successful candidate will work closely within the TAVI and the wider interventional team to support the growing TAVI service at the Freeman Hospital. They should have extensive experience in interventional cardiology and be an independent or have received high training volume for percutaneous coronary intervention. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of TAVI care and will be supported in gaining experience in the technical steps of TAVI procedure aiming to achieve an independent level operator by the end of their fellowship. As part of the TAVI team, the successful candidate should be able to demonstrate effective team working, leadership and communication skills. They are expected to support research studies relating to TAVI, co-ordinate with research nurses and obtain data.

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 opportunity to gain experience in TAVI in a high-volume UK centre, aiming to achieve independent level by the end of the fellowship. This post would be suitable for a candidate who has high level interventional training and poses the required inter-personal skills to support the TAVI service at the Freeman Hospital.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Richard Edwards via email at [email protected] / Professor Azfar Zaman via email at [email protected] / Dr Mohammad Alkhalil via email at [email protected] / Dr Mohamed Farag via email at [email protected] or Professor Rajiv Das via email at [email protected]

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

The successful candidate will work as part of the TAVI team. They will be responsible for patients undergoing TAVI, including procedural preparation and CT analysis, MDT work up, and post TAVI care. There will support one dedicated TAVI clinic per week. They are expected to liaise with the TAVI specialist nurse to support the service for elective and urgent inter-hospital transfer.

Administrative:

Recording data following TAVI procedures in local databases, writing discharge summaries, communicating with General Practitioners, and liaising with TAVI specialist nurse about the TAVI service.

Research and Teaching:

There will be opportunity to conduct research studies related to TAVI and other structural heart interventions. The successful candidate is expected to support ongoing research activities within and outside the catheterisation laboratory. They are also expected to contribute to the weekly Journal Club and interesting interventional cases.

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.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification