South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Applications are invited for a consultant cardiologist. The successful candidate will be joining a team of 16 cardiologists providing a comprehensive cardiology service from our two acute hospital sites in South Tyneside and Sunderland, serving a local population of nearly half a million. The Trust also provides specialist services across the wider integrated care system, serving a population of nearly 1 million people. The department currently provides 24/7 coronary intervention, complex device implantation and follow up, and a full range of cardiac imaging modalities including echo, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI, and nuclear cardiology. There are 3 cath labs across both sites providing PCI and brady & complex pacemaker implantation. The department has close links with the two regional surgical centres, with regular multi-disciplinary meetings for revascularisation and structural heart disease. The heart failure service is integrated across acute and community, covering South Tyneside, Sunderland and North Durham.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will contribute to the general cardiology rota (1 in 13), with site based inpatient ward commitments and cross site elective sessions, working alongside our multi-professional cardiology team. There is a separate 24/7 rota for interventional cardiology cover. Dedicated sessions include general and sub-speciality clinics and lists (e.g. TOE and stress echo), and MDT meetings. There are weekly heart failure MDTs supported by our multi-professional and multi-disciplinary teams. Non-invasive cardiology, including echocardiography, is provided from dedicated facilities on both acute sites and from various community sites, supported by a highly skilled cardiac physiologist team with a number holding advanced accreditation. There is allocated time to participate in an active weekly programme of departmental meetings for research, quality improvement and governance.
Job responsibilities
You will be expected to coordinate a strategy to achieve an improvement in overall cardiac health for the population served by the Cardiology Service. The appointee will be responsible, in conjunction with his/her colleagues, for maintaining a comprehensive Cardiology service to the population of Sunderland and South Tyneside and others choosing to use the Service. The Cardiologists will share clinical responsibility for cardiology patients across the clinical areas in accordance with the agreed admissions policy. The appointee is not expected to participate in the GIM rota. It is expected that the successful candidate will see new and follow up outpatient referrals in two outpatient clinic sessions per week. There may be junior staff in attendance for training purposes.
For candidates with experience in advanced echo, you will be expected to provide clinical and strategic leadership for the multiprofessional team delivering echo services. Specifically, you will provide oversight and take the lead to deliver governance over transthoracic echocardiography, stress echocardiography, highly specialist transoesophageal echocardiography and contribute to multi-modality heart valve disease assessment. There is facility to deliver advanced transoesophageal and stress echocardiography now and the candidate will be supported to contribute to plans for expansion of the service. Departmental British Society of Echocardiography accreditation is an opportunity for the candidate to demonstrate excellence.
This will involve working closely with colleagues to maintain and improve a high-quality service, consistent with national standards. There is facility to provide stress echo for candidates with the relevant training and experience.
This is a new post, which has been established, to join the current cardiac imaging team. We welcome applications from candidates with national or international imaging society accreditation to deliver high clinical standards and participate in departmental imaging related governance and training.
The candidate will be expected to participate in the general cardiology on call rota on a 1:10 to 1:12 basis.
Person Specification
Audit and Research
* Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical practice
* Involvement in quality improvement measures
* Ability to undertake multi-disciplinary audit / audit in specialty area
* Experience of clinical research
* Undertaken research with published papers in refereed journals
Experience
* Relevant experience in any declared specialist interest pertinent to the post
* Evidence of clinical audit
* Understanding of clinical governance and a readiness to accept and acknowledge the responsibilities it implies.
* Competent in management of routine and emergency general medical patients
* Understanding of the NHS, Clinical Governance process and resource issues
* Evidence of organisational, management and time management skills
* Success in obtaining funding for research
* Evidence of research or innovative service developments
* An area of subspecialty interest/experience
* Evidence of management and administration experience and understanding management goals
* Management course and / or certificate
Personal Attributes
* Alignment with the Trust core values and behaviours.
* 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.
* Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and healthcare workers and other agencies
* Evidence of understanding of and adherence to principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the GMC
Qualifications
* Primary medical qualification
* Full GMC registration
* Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within six months of the date of the AAC [there is flexibility with the 6-month period with Executive Medical Director approval]
Teaching and Education
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff
* Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
* Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
* Qualification in medical education
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.
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