Fellow in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Advanced Heart Failure -ST5
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £65,048.00 to £73,992.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £65048.00 - £73992.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 December 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9317-25-1510 |
Summary
Clinical: Provide continuity of ward cover for complex ACHD patients on cardiology, cardiac surgery and intensive care wards Perform the daily ACHD cardiology ward round either independently, together with an ACHD Nurse Specialist or with a more junior doctor, with direct or indirect ACHD consultant supervision Join the multidisciplinary mechanical assist or transplant ICU ward round whenever ACHD patients have undergone these procedures. Perform the initial assessment of all ACHD patients referred by other UK centres for cardiac transplantation and/or mechanical assist device. Perform and report initial transthoracic echocardiogram on complex transplant referrals Perform and report peri-operative transoesophageal echocardiogram on ACHD patients undergoing conventional surgical procedures with direct or indirect ACHD consultant supervision Attend and present cases at various relevant multidisciplinary meetings (Fontan/FALD, joint cardiac surgical meeting, ACHD electrophysiology meeting, heart failure and transplant meetings) Contribute to general ACHD and specialist outpatient clinics including ACHD heart failure, Fontan and combined obstetric-cardiac clinics. Review and present Morbidity and Mortality cases at Clinical Governance ACCORDING TO INTEREST: Perform catheters, cross-sectional imaging or electrophysiology procedures supervised and in a supported training role. Administrative: Co-ordinate the FALD MDT Attend and contribute to the weekly team/planning meeting Provide structured support to the programme of ACHD transplant and mechanical assist and act as central point of contact with other teams e.g. liver and lung teams or referring teams external to the Trust Research: Participate in opportunities with clinical academics in the congenital heart disease research group (https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/congenitalhearts/) according to interest. Teaching: Attend and contribute to weekly journal club and joint paediatric, ACHD and congenital surgical teaching Contribute to formal core curricular training programmes and bedside teaching for junior cardiology doctors and nurse practitioners Support and enable exposure to ACHD for medical students at various levels. 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.