Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Consultant Cardiology team on a permanent basis at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. This is a replacement post involving a 10 session commitment each week and the successful candidate will be joining six colleagues who together currently deliver general cardiology services for a population of 200,000 in North East England. 

We provide out-patient services to primary care including clinics in General Cardiology, Rapid Access Chest Pain Assessment, Heart Failure and Structural Heart Disease.  In addition, acutely ill cardiac patients are served by an on-call Consultant rota in which the successful candidate will participate., as well as a Consultant of the week model.

Main duties of the job

Out Consultants work alongside an experienced team of Senior Nursing colleagues in Heart Failure, Chest Pain Assessment, post Myocardial Infarction follow-up and Valve disease.  We are fortunate in having an expanding number of skilled Cardiac Physiologists to develop our echocardiogram service and continue to provide our bradycardia pacing service.  The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop the pacing service and expand into the area of complex device therapy for Heart Failure as well as other service development initiatives. Liaison with our Tertiary Centre at Freeman Hospital will be encouraged where mutually convenient.  

The successful candidate will participate in the Clinical Teaching Programme for not only Medical Students from Newcastle University Medical School but also in the Clinical and Educational Supervision of our Post-graduate trainees.  In addition, participation in the Trust’s Governance Strategy including the Safe-Care programme will be expected.      

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust excels in trainee surveys and the Cardiology Department in particular is recognised locally as a place which  supports its staff.  We want to build on this good reputation for the future and deliver further excellence for our patients.      

Working for our organisation

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the BAME network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our armed forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.