CONSULTANT IN CARDIOLOGY WITH INTEREST IN HEART FAILURE AND COMPLEX DEVICES
Applications are invited for a full-time substantive position within the Cardiology Team. The successful candidate will join a friendly, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team, contributing to both an acute and elective cardiology service.
Role Overview:
The role comprises of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week.
Responsibilities:
1. The Consultant Cardiologist team provides both an acute and elective cardiology service.
2. Cover the Coronary Care Unit during weekdays, conducting a coronary care ward round on weekday mornings at 08:30 hrs.
3. Provide cardiology input as requested for patients admitted by the physicians and assume ongoing responsibility for those needing intervention and other specialist input.
4. Look after cardiology in-patients undertaking further diagnostic and therapeutic intervention.
5. Work closely with the cardiology service at Leeds.
6. Oversee non-invasive diagnostic services provided by the cardiac technical staff who also run the pacing clinic.
7. Integrate rapid access chest pain referrals into outpatient cardiology clinics operating on a comprehensive one-stop principle.
8. Utilize facilities for CT coronary angiography, trans-oesophageal echocardiography, and stress echocardiography.
9. Perform complex device implantation (over 100 complex devices performed per year) for ICD, CRT-P, CRT-D, as well as routine bradycardia devices.
Work Environment:
The successes of our Trust are proof that fantastic quality of life can go hand-in-hand with consistently high-quality patient care. Our award-winning hospital is in a location providing genuine opportunities for a great work-life balance. The local town of Skipton has been voted as the best place to live in the UK by the Sunday Times, commending its top-class schools, great transport links, low crime, and beautiful surrounding countryside.
For further details and the full job description and person specification for this position, please see the attached job pack. #J-18808-Ljbffr