Consultant Cardiologist (Echocardiography and ACHD) - 9PAs

Consultant Cardiologist (Echocardiography and ACHD) - 9PAs

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Consultant Cardiologist (Echocardiography and ACHD) - 9PAs

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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of 1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

Were in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

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

We are seeking to appoint a Consultant Cardiologist with a subspeciality interest in echocardiography, and with experience in adult congenital heart disease to provide complex echocardiography services in the Trust. The successful applicant will perform on average 2 complex echo lists per week covering a range of procedures (TOE, pharmacological and exercise stress echo and contrast echo). The appointee will be expected to contribute to TOE provision for structural intervention procedures and to provide imaging support to the complex valve MDT meetings. There are currently two valve related MDTs per week each of one hour duration with additional bi-monthly regional valve interventional structural planning meetings.

There will be a commitment for 1:12 basis for acute cardiology, with no overnight cover.

Support for complex echo and adult congenital heart disease is an essential requirement of this post.

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.

Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

Strengthen the Cardiac imaging department and the provision of specialist ACHD echocardiography.

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.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Tim Irvine ( option 3) or Dr Alexandra Thompson (), Consultant Cardiologists with subspecialty interest in echocardiography, Dr David Crossland () and Dr Kristian Bailey (), Clinical Director Cardiology and Respiratory.

Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

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.

Were also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients contacts each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Clinical:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Complex echocardiography (stress echo, contrast echo, TOE,)

Imaging support to cardiothoracic MDTs

General Acute Cardiology take (1:12 Consultant of the week) with no overnight commitment

1 General cardiology outpatient clinic

1 Adult Congenital Heart Disease clinic

Administrative:

Review and Triage of referrals to outpatient clinics

Review and report investigations

Assist with prioritisation and planning of complex echo procedures

Research:

To be agreed individually with the successful applicant

Teaching:

Contribution to departmental teaching of postgraduate doctors in training, undergraduate medical students and specialist nurses

Formal teaching roles to be agreed with successful applicant depending upon experience

Flexibility:

In line with the Trusts 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.

Person specification

Education, Qualifications And Specialist Skills

Essential criteria

Primary Medical Qualification.

Full GMC Registration

Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).

MRCP or equivalent

Subspecialty Training in advanced echocardiography

Desirable criteria

Higher Degree.

Subspecialty training in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty

Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality

Ability to manage General Cardiology inpatients and outpatients.

Desirable criteria

Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria

Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development

Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues

Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the directorate to the Trust and its workforce.

An understanding of Clinical Governance

Desirable criteria

Involvement with unit management and project leadership

Proven management and administration ability and understanding of management goals

Evidence of leadership and project management

Experience in developing and implementing new technologies

Ability to review clinical guidelines,

Teaching

Essential criteria

Experience of supervising postgraduate doctors in training.

Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.

Desirable criteria

Postgraduate qualification in medical education

Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills

Ability to teach clinical, technical and practical skills

Research

Desirable criteria

Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.

Higher degree. Research/critical review of literature

Publications in the last five years.

Audit

Essential criteria

Evidence of participation in audit.

Desirable criteria

Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.

Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

Alignment with the Trusts 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.

Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota.

Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 680.4KB)

Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)

Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)

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