Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (Consultant 10 PA job plan pending job plan review within 6 months)
- Job ref
- 370-MEDCONCAR-456
- Employer
- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warrington
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 N/A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Cardiologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
The post is a replacement post based at Warrington Hospital offered on a permanent basis. Applications are invited for a Consultant Cardiologist with full training and accreditation with a specialist interest in pacing or cardiac imaging
The appointee will support the development of our services and will contribute to acute cardiology and the provision of outpatient clinics with sub speciality sessions in pacing or cardiac imaging.
There is a commitment to the cardiology on-call including “Consultant of the Week” and 7 day working to ensure all unwell cardiology patients are reviewed on a daily basis.
Main duties of the job
We will be required to deliver high quality, patient centred care at Warrington Hospital.
You will contribute to general cardiology services, including outpatients’ clinics and inpatient ward work as consultant of the week and reviewing outlying patients with cardiac conditions.
You will shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
You will be expected to attend and be actively involved in MDT meetings and directorate clinical governance activity across Cardiology Services.
Teaching and training resident doctors are essential to your professional activity as well as participating in continuing medical education.
This job description outlines the current main responsibilities of the post. However, the duties of the post may change and develop over time and this job description may, therefore, be amended in consultation with the post holder.
Working for our organisation
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.
Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.
A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.
We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality. We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications. Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job plan to commence will be approximately 10 programmed activities (PAs) to include:
1 Cath Lab
3 Outpatient Clinic
1 Imaging session
On- call
New consultants also attract an additional 0.5 PA SPA for their first 6 months in post.
All consultants are expected to complete a minimum of 42 of their 52 fixed sessions within a full year. Leave requests with 6 weeks’ notice (on pro-rata basis).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC registration • Membership of Royal College of Physicians; CST general medicine / acute medicine or specialty medicine • CCT in Cardiology or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- • Higher degree • ALS
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Highly motivated and enthusiastic with a ‘can do attitude’ and to make decisions
- • High standard of clinical skill & expertise in speciality
- • Ability to work efficiently and accept a high degree of diagnostic uncertainty in acute cardiology care
- • Ability to lead and inspire the clinical team
- • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
- • Ability to gain satisfaction from collective team working rather than the rewards of individual patient care pathways
- • Advanced communication skills
- • Enthusiasm for education for self and others
- • Be sensitive to the patient experience
- • Participation in clinical audit
- • Good knowledge / understanding of Clinical governance
- • Effective leadership and organisational skills
- • Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- • Appropriate research to acute cardiac care
- • BSE or equivalent (EACVI, ASE) accreditation for echo modalities ( TTEcho, TOE, stress echo)
- • BHRS or equivalent (EHRA) accreditation for pacing
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
- • High level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of Cardiology
- • Understanding of current issues within Cardiology
- • Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
- • Evidence of personal involvement in management and administrative roles in healthcare
- •• Shows ability to work with and lead with others across professions
Specfic role requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to manage high pressure situations i.e. clinical crisis
- • Satisfactory DBS Disclosure check
- • Caring, honest and reliable
- • Able to foster good working relationships with staff
- • Able and willing to work with consultant colleagues in equitable sharing of clinical, nonclinical duties
- An interest which improves the core clinical service for Cardiology patients
- • Ability to do 8 hour shifts on a busy Cardiology unit
- • Ability to manage the intensity of a Cardiology Ward
- • Be willing to work across both sites within the Trust
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ioannis Moukas
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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