Job Summary
We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team.
Applications are invited for a consultant post in cardiology at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust. We are looking for a 12-month Locum Consultant Cardiologist post with an interest in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). The post will be mainly based at the Freeman Hospital. You will join a team of 13 interventional cardiologists (12 NHS and 1 PT academic interventional cardiologist). The post-holder will contribute to the interventional service, including the full range of interventional techniques and provision of Primary PCI on-call cover. The post-holder will work closely with the existing team of consultant cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and allied specialties.
The post attracts 10 Programmed Activities per week for approximately a 1 in 11 on-call for intervention at Freeman Hospital and 1:16 CCU at RVI/Freeman Hospitals.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research, and audit.
Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
Main Duties of the Job
We are advertising for a locum Consultant Cardiologist (10 PAs). This is a new post primarily at the Freeman Hospital Cardiothoracic Unit. The post-holder will have broad general cardiology skills with a special interest in PCI. Responsibilities include developing and contributing to continuing education, professional development, audit, and research within the Division and the Trust. There is an expectation of collaborative working with colleagues and liaison with other disciplines throughout the trust and network.
As a flexible working-friendly organization, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr. Kristian Bailey by phone on 0191 28 21515 or at Kristian.Bailey2@nhs.net, or Dr. Mohamed Farag by phone on 0191 21 39920 or via email at MohamedFarag@nhs.net.
About Us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest, and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high-quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally, and internationally.
We are also proud to be the second-largest provider of specialized services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical, and neurological conditions, cancers, and genetic disorders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patient contacts each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognize the benefit of providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, particularly from under-represented groups.
Job Responsibilities
Clinical:
The post will form part of the consultant PCI on-call rota. PCI sessions will be in the on-call urgent cardiac catheter lab dealing with patients presenting with NSTEMI, STEMI, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from around the region.
To provide expert care for patients admitted to Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals with cardiology conditions and to provide specialist interventional cardiology opinions to colleagues in referring hospitals around the region, as needed.
To provide clinical expertise in the sub-specialist area appropriate to the training and expertise of the appointee and the service needs of the department.
To provide in-patient opinions and, where appropriate, continuing supervision for patients with cardiology conditions.
The appointees will contribute to the on-call consultant interventional cardiologist rota at the Freeman. The frequency of on-call will be approximately a 1-in-11 shared with PCI colleagues from the Freeman. The interventionist is typically on call. It is anticipated the successful candidate will contribute a regular daytime on-call PCI session weekly in addition to on-call for PCI out of hours.
Administrative:
The appointee will participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary audit and risk management activities.
Assist the Cardiothoracic Directorate Manager and Clinical Director in the timely investigation of complaints working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy.
Contribute to the general organization and running of Cardiothoracic Services within the Trust, working in collaboration with colleagues and reporting to the Clinical Director.
The appointee will manage their own cardiac catheter lab sessions to ensure efficient use of resources, including supervision of trainees. They will contribute to the management of the Cardiology Clinic service overall.
Research:
The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high-profile activity that complements the service provided. The emphasis is on studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio.
Teaching:
Participate in the teaching of undergraduate students in both medicine and dentistry. The Cardiology Department provides intensive teaching during the Foundations of Clinical Practice Cardiology teaching week. The unit teaches students within various phases of the course, including, but not limited to, Student Selected Components and Hospital-Based Practice teaching.
Active involvement in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the department with specific responsibility for the education development of Foundation doctors, Core Medical Trainees, and Specialty Training Registrars.
Participate in the teaching and training of any other healthcare professionals within the Directorate.
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 to offer services in the evening or weekend. 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.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential
* Primary Medical Qualification
* Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise
* Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
* Holder of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or evidence of within six months of award of CCT or equivalent by date of interview
Desirable
* Higher research degree (MSc or PhD)
* Special skills training in the specialty
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential
* Evidence of experience in the specialty
* Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
* Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the specialty
* Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Desirable
* Evidence of a special interest in complex PCI
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
* Ability to run a service and participate in management processes
* Committed to share in professional, managerial, and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
* Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
Desirable
* Proven management and administration ability
* Understanding of management goals
* Evidence of leadership/project management
* Evidence of having implemented change
* Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
Essential
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff
* Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
* Ability to teach clinical, technical, and practical skills
Desirable
* Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
* Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential
* Experience of audit projects and Clinical Governance
* Understanding of research principles
Desirable
* Higher research degree (MSc or PhD)
* Publications in interventional research in the last five years
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential
* Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
* Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Alignment with the Trust's Values
* Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
* Committed to share in professional, managerial, and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
* A commitment to personal/unit CPD
* Time management skills
* Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality
Desirable
* Evidence of leadership skills
* IT literate
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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Employer Details
Employer Name
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cardiology Specialty - FH
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7DN
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