Clinical Fellow in Interventional Cardiology -CTO & Complex PCI FellowNHS

Job summary

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

The post is to commence as soon as possible for 12 months. 40 hours per week no on call.

The Fellowship will involve, in addition to the day-to-day PCI, a training in all CTO techniques and all aspect of complex PCI including rotational atherectomy, laser PCI, and intravascular imaging under the guidance of Professor Mohaned Egred. In addition, there will be the opportunity to be involved in structural cardiac interventions, namely mitral valve.

The fellow will be required and expected to undertake research activities and publications, teaching and being involved in academic activities. Papers and publications are an integral part of the post and the fellow is expected to produce multiple manuscripts. In addition, database entry (local, national and international) for cases will also be an essential and important part of activities. There will also be administration commitment and periodic out-patient clinic involvement.

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.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This post is an opportunity to gain experience in advanced CTO & complex PCI in a high-volume UK centre including all aspects of interventional cardiology. This post would be suitable for a candidate who has a sound basis in PCI and would like to further enhance their skills in CTO & complex PCI prior to application for substantive consultant interventional posts.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:

Professor Mohaned Egred, Consultant Cardiologist on 0191 9330210 or via email at [email protected]

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Clinical:

The successful appointee will work as part of the PCI team. Typical duties per week will include PCI lab sessions, clinic, administration, and time allocated for audit and research. There will be responsibility for the management of patients undergoing interventional PCI procedures.

Administrative:

Responsibility for recording data from lab patients in local and European databases, writing discharge summaries and communicating with General Practitioners.

Other:

Attendance and participation at the weekly revascularisation MDT meeting, other educational meetings and the relevant quality assurance programme. In addition to research and publications.

Emergency and On-call Responsibilities:

There is no out-of-hours commitment attached to this post. It is not expected that the appointee will take part in the General Cardiology specialty registrar on-call rota but it may be possible to accommodate this if the appointee expressly wishes to do so and has suitable experience. This would involve covering CCU including direct admissions to the PPCI service and other cardiac emergencies. This is a 1:10 rota and is resident. It presently attracts a 2B (50%) supplement.

Education and Training:

The named educational supervisor will discuss the needs of the appointee at the start of the job and review them regularly. The appointee will also receive positive support from the Trust with regard to taking exams or additional qualifications, and will have access to a minimum of 10 days of study leave per year, plus additional days for Trust and (if applicable) MTI induction.

Audit and research activities of the department will be an essential part of this post in addition to teaching opportunities at the University of Central Lancashire. The appointee will be involved as a sub-investigator for on-going research studies in interventional cardiology in the department.

Accountability:

The appointee will be accountable in their clinical duties to the consultants whose patients they are managing in the first instance, to the clinical director of cardiothoracic services and ultimately to the medical director of the trust.

Indicative timetable Morning

Afternoon

Monday

Research

Research

Tuesday

PCI

MDT

Wednesday

Clinic

Admin

Thursday

PCI

research

Friday

PCI

PCI

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.

About us

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.