Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiac Devices
MT04
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is a regional centre providing tertiary cardiology services to Lancashire and South Cumbria. The Device service continues to expand and performs around 900 procedures annually. As well as implantation we are a regional service offering lead extraction (Rotational extraction sheath and femoral), Subcutaneous ICD, and Micra implantation. We also perform some hybrid surgical procedures which there will be an opportunity to gain experience of. We have 4 and a half days of device implantation in catheter labs weekly (one day a fortnight with general anaesthesia support) and run device clinics every day.
Main duties of the job
This job would be for up to 1 year subject to satisfactory performance assessed at 6 monthly intervals. There will be no commitment to on call cover
(a) Provision of in-patient care for the patients of Device Consultants as required .
(b) Support for cardiac devices interventions in the Catheter Lab.
(c) Attendance at Cardiology Pacing clinic and device Consultant Clinics at the Lancashire Cardiac Centre at Victoria Hospital Blackpool
(d) Occasional teaching of Nursing Staff and Junior Doctors and Medical Students
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, and offers a full range of district hospital services and community health services to a population of 1.6 million in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology services across the wider region.
We employ more than 6,500 staff, with a turnover in excess of £370m in 2014/2015 and have approximately 900 beds.
Our main activities are:
- Cardiovascular care at our Cardiac centre.
- Accident and Emergency at Blackpool Teaching Hospital.
- Community Midwifery and Women and Children’s Services.
- Clinical research with an 80-strong team of nurses and doctors.
- Community nursing and school nursing.
- Recovery and rehabilitation for a variety of conditions including brain injury, stroke and elderly care.
- Sexual health and family planning services.
- Wellbeing and lifestyle including mental health services, heart health campaigns, and smoking cessation services.
- End of life and palliative care.
The Trust houses a state of the art Simulation & Skills Facility that provides training for all grades of staff to improve the safety and quality of the service that we offer our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This job would be for up to 1 year subject to satisfactory performance assessed at 6 monthly intervals. There will be no commitment to on call cover
(a) Provision of in-patient care for the patients of Device Consultants as required .
(b) Support for cardiac devices interventions in the Catheter Lab.
(c) Attendance at Cardiology Pacing clinic and device Consultant Clinics at the Lancashire Cardiac Centre at Victoria Hospital Blackpool
(d) Occasional teaching of Nursing Staff and Junior Doctors and Medical Students
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary medical qualification
- Full GMC Registration MRCP or equivalent, , cardiology experience at registrar level
- Experience of device implantation and follow up
Desirable criteria
- CCT in Cardiology
- BHRS/EHRA/IBHRE accreditation in device therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Complete core cardiology training
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- A caring attitude to patients and ability to display empathy
- Good organisational skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English
- Ability to undertake on-call/shift working
Teaching And Research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching Experience in undertaking/participating in research projects
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
- Dr Chris Cassidy
- Job title
- Cardiology Device Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 953368
- Additional information
Dr Andy Wiper
Head Of Department
01253 957793
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