In relation to this post, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is appointing a full-time consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in cardiac imaging and management of structural heart disease including aortic and valve pathology. This is a replacement post following retirement of a colleague. There are currently 33 consultant cardiologists working part or full-time in Leeds. All consultants are based at the Yorkshire Heart Centre on the Leeds General Infirmary site. There are 4 consultants working in the Valve team and 4 in the Echo Imaging team. The CMR service currently is supported by 9 consultants (3 NHS consultants, 3 academics and 3 visiting). There are 5 consultants working within the inherited cardiac conditions service that also includes the aortopathy service. The structural heart disease service in LTHT delivers specialist assessment, management and follow up of patients with heart valve disease (HVD) and aortic disease (also called the aortopathy service) for Leeds and West Yorkshire with a catchment area of 2.5-3 million. The management of aortic disease is an area of national strategic importance, the implementation of which is an NHS E&I priority. Key priority areas include timely diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and genetic screening. The national strategy also is encouraging development of a regional pan-aortic service with collaborative team working between cardiologists, cardiac and vascular surgeons. The Leeds Aortopathy Service leads a regional approach to aortic disease provides integrated coordinated care to patients and relatives with aortic disease including diagnosis, surveillance, referral for surgery, genetic screening, and family assessment. Leeds has a well-established aortopathy service developed by a senior consultant who is due to retire. The echocardiography department is led by Dr Dominik Schlosshan. The echo department covers 5 sites across the trust with the main sites being located in the LGI and SJUH staffed by over 22 cardiac physiologists. The echo department performs over 15000 transthoracic scans, 2000 stress echos and 500 transoesophageal echos per annum over and offers specialist echo support to the valve clinic, heart failure clinic and inherited cardiac conditions clinic as well as the electrophysiology and endocarditis service. There is also an established interventional transoesophageal service supporting a range of trans-catheter interventions including left atrial appendage occlusion and trans-catheter edge to edge repair. The cardiac MR (CMR) department in LTHT performs approximately 3000 scans per annum and is led by Prof Sven Plein. There are three dedicated cardiac MRI scanners at the LGI. There are strong academic links with the university of Leeds with a research portfolio of international reputation. The cardiac CT service is delivered by the Radiology department supported by Cardiology. Approximately 1500 coronary CTs and 600 structural CTs are performed annually. Leeds is a tertiary cardiac centre and provides one of the largest valve services in the UK. It offers all streams of a heart valve centre of excellence including valve surveillance, assessment of complex valve disease, surgical and trans-catheter treatment of valve disease within a multidisciplinary team. Leeds receives region wide referrals for valve disease management, collaborating with interventional colleagues, Cardiac Surgery and Valve teams. Cardiology Outpatients are currently held at Leeds General Infirmary, St Jamess University Hospital, Seacroft Hospital and Wharfedale Hospital. There are active Teaching and Research links with the Leeds School of Medicine and the University of Leeds, both well situated on adjacent sites.