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Main area
Cardiology
Grade
Junior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (Initial 6 months with option to extend)
Hours
40 hours per week (Full time)
Job ref
164-7076722
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
City Hospital
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£70,425 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Cardiac Devices Fellow

Junior Clinical Fellow

Job overview

We seek to appoint a Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM).  This post would suit an individual with either a CCT in cardiology sub-specialising in CRM or a trainee within their final two years of CRM sub-specialty training (OOPE).

 Suitably qualified candidates will participate mainly in the department’s cardiac implantable electrical device (CIED) program. The CIED program is comprehensive and includes conventional transvenous and leadless bradycardia pacing, conventional and sub-cutaneous ICD implants, CRT and conduction system pacing. The electrophysiology program includes simple and complex ablation (left atrial ablation, abnormal heart ventricular tachycardia ablation).There is a lead extraction service and an inherited cardiac conditions service run in collaboration with the Clinical Genetics department. There will be opportunity to participate in departmental research activities and the successful candidate will be encouraged to develop their own research activity.

Main duties of the job

All inpatients cardiology beds are based at the City Hospital site. It consists of a 20-bed Acute Cardiac Unit based on Morris Ward in the TCC, a 32-bed Level 1 ward (Papplewick) and a 22-bed low dependency ward (Patience 1). Cardiologists conduct daily ward rounds supported by resident doctors (SpR, Fellow, IMT, FY2, FY1) across all cardiology inpatient areas and admission wards. A number of patients are also transferred from surrounding hospitals for further management of acute coronary syndromes, cardiac arrhythmia and other cardiac conditions

Please see job description for further details

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is currently the fifth largest trust within the UK and provides a range of healthcare services for a population of 2.5 million. Specialist cardiological services are delivered from the Trent Cardiac Centre across the whole of Nottinghamshire and parts of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire. The department has 20 consultants with four modern catheter labs, state of the art imaging facilities and a range of non-diagnostic testing facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

NUH is designated as a Regional Heart Attack centre and has provided a 24-hour primary angioplasty service since 2010. Non-coronary structural interventions currently undertaken include transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), patent foramen ovale closures, post infarct VSD closure, paravalvar leak closure, mitral valvuloplasty, left atrial appendage closure and mitral transcatheter edge to edge repair.

Non-invasive cardiac imaging is well established across both campuses and includes echocardiography, radionuclide scans, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, and cardiac CT.

Person specification

Qualifications and training

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC registration & Licence To Practise
  • Full MRCP
Desirable criteria
  • B.Sc/ Other higher degrees

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least 3 years general medical experience post qualification and appropriate experience in cardiology
  • CCT in cardiology sub-specialising in CRM or a trainee within their final two years of CRM sub-specialty training (OOPE).
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of audit

Skills and Aptitude

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience in permanent pacing. Competency in basic echocardiography. CPR, CV line insertion, Temporary and permanent Cardiac Pacing, and Pleural taps etc.
  • Experience in exercise testing. Manual dexterity Well versed with acute general medicine. Demonstrable awareness of main developments in cardiology
Desirable criteria
  • Exposure to complex device (CRT & ICD) implantation and follow-up. Exposure to EP-ablation procedures
  • Certified provider in ALS

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Jenny Chuen
Job title
Consultant Cardiologist, Clinical lead for Devices
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0115 9691169
Additional information

Dr Amar Mistry, Consultant Cardiologist ([email protected])

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