Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- Trust Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (September 2024 for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Basic hours only)
- Job ref
- 317-TD-24-195
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cardiology Specialty - RVI
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £63,152 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Post CCT Fellow in Advanced Heart Failure (Cardiology) (ST6+)
Trust Doctor
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.
We’re 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 people’s 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.
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.
This post is an exciting opportunity for postgraduate trainees in Cardiology to gain extensive experience and participate in the outpatient and inpatient multi-disciplinary assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with advanced heart failure including heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support. The appointee will be based at the Regional Cardiothoracic Centre at Freeman Hospital which provides tertiary and supra-regional services in all areas of adult and paediatric cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, and transplantation.
The post is to commence September 2024 for 12 months.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
This post is an exciting opportunity for postgraduate trainees in Cardiology to gain extensive experience in the management of patients with advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.
The post will involve inpatient and outpatient care, right heart catheter and biopsy sessions, participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, and research.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Oscar Fernandez on +44 (0) 191 223 1727, or via email at [email protected]; Prof Guy MacGowan on +44 (0) 191 223 1546, or at [email protected]; Dr Adam McDiarmid on +44 (0) 191 223 1546, or at [email protected]
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.
We’re 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 people’s 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.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
· The successful appointee/ trainee will have the opportunity to work and gain clinical experience at the cardio-thoracic centre, specifically the inpatient and outpatient advanced heart failure and transplant unit at the Institute of Transplantation in the Freeman Hospital.
· A clear timetable of clinical duties primarily focused on the management of patients with advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, and ventricular assist device patients.
· To receive training for performing right heart catheterisation procedures, endomyocardial biopsies and cardiopulmonary exercise tests.
· The opportunity of learning about the management of advanced heart failure in adult congenital heart disease patients, including heart transplantation, and ventricular assist devices in this population.
· To supervise and train junior staff allocated to the Transplant Service.
· There will be protected research time included in the post, and opportunities to participate in research and clinical audit, including collaborative research with other research centres.
· This post provides the opportunity to learn and gain experience in the investigation and management of advanced heart failure patients.
Administrative:
· The successful appointee/ trainee will be responsible for maintaining inpatient and outpatient records, discharge summaries and communication with the advanced heart failure consultants, as well as specialist referring teams and General Practitioners regionally in adherence with GDPR and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust regulations.
Research:
· The successful appointee/ trainee will be encouraged and supported in the departments of clinical research and clinical trial activity related to clinical research projects in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. A time of 2 PAs per week will be protected for clinical research activities.
Teaching:
· The successful appointee/ trainee will have the opportunity to contribute to the teaching programme of undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees attached to the department which is part of the medical and surgical teaching and training programme for Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust.
· To participate in the Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance programme.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trust’s 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 and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC registration or eligibility to obtain this within 3 months (or within 6 months for non-EEA applicants).
Desirable criteria
- Holder of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Cardiology, or evidence of within six months of award of CCT or equivalent by date of interview
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good history & examination skills
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis
- Able to order appropriate investigations
- Image interpretation relevant to practice
- Interpretation of echocardiogram
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague.
- Evidence of competence in care of Cardiology patients at equivalent CMT/ST level
Desirable criteria
- Cardiac Catheterisation skills
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to run a service and participate in management process
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
- Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
- Proven management and administration ability
- Understanding of management goals
- Experience with audit
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Ability to teach clinical skills
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
- Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Alignment with the Trust’s Values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Time management skills
- Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills
- IT literate
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Scorfield
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912825465
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