Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiology | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6265392/361-R2R-2287 |
Summary
Join our team for a fixed 12-month term starting immediately. Our Trust caters to a local population of 600,000 and boasts round-the-clock primary PCI services.This opportunity is ideal for an ambitious physician with a keen interest in cardiology, aiming for advancement at registrar level. Successful candidates will play a pivotal role in managing cardiology services at Lister Hospital, overseeing both in-patient and out-patient care for patients with diverse cardiac conditions. Comprehensive training in both invasive and non-invasive cardiology is provided, along with active involvement in the cardiology registrar on-call schedule. Experienced individuals may pursue specialized training in intervention (PCI and PPCI) or Advanced Imaging (CMR, Stress Echo, Cardiac CT).
The successful applicant will be expected to perform clinical duties at registrar level, assisting in the running of cardiology services within the Lister Hospital, although from time to time the post holder will be required to undertake work at the QEII site or Hertford County Hospital. The clinical duties will involve all aspects of clinical management of cardiac patients, including cardiology out-patient and in-patient care, non-invasive cardiac investigations and work in the cath lab. There will be no commitment to general medicine.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
The post will provide cardiology input to co-ordinate and deliver inpatient and out-patient cardiology service within the Trust. The post holder will be predominantly based at the Lister Hospital. The post holder will run cardiology out-patient clinics under the supervision of one of the cardiology consultants. In addition, he/she will be required to contribute towards a registrar delivered ED returners clinic running weekday afternoons, and supervise and/or assist with clinics run by cardiac specialist nurses, such as Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic, Post-MI Clinic and Post-Angioplasty Clinic.The post holder will actively participate in providing invasive and non-invasive cardiac service. The post holder will participate in the day-to-day running of the cardiology in-patient service, in conjunction with the SpR and FY1 and FY2 doctors.The post holder will participate in the full shift cardiology registrar on call rota on a 1:10 basis as above.
This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024