Consultant in Cardiology - Cardiac Imaging
| Posting date: | 12 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £109,725 to £145,478 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109725 - £145478 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Location: | Rotherham, S60 2UD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9165-25-12-079 |
Summary
The Department This post is for a full-time Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in Cardiac Imaging, specifically Cardiac MRI and Nuclear Cardiology. The post will be based mainly at Rotherham General Hospital. You will join a well-established Cardiology unit with the opportunity to develop and deliver state of the art services in a tailor made Cardiology suite including purpose built catheterisation/pacing laboratory dedicated for Cardiology use. You will be joining a team of four other Consultant Cardiologists with sub-specialty interests including cardiac device therapy, heart failure, and coronary intervention. There is a plan to advertise for a second imaging consultant, with sub-speciality interest in advanced echo and cardiac CT, later this year. We also have visiting Consultants undertaking complex device implantation at Rotherham from the regional network. Local procedures include left and right heart catheterisation, simple and complex cardiac device implantation, transthoracic echo, transoesophaegeal echo, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and cardiac CT imaging. Other medical team members include two Cardiology SpR posts with training numbers from the South Yorkshire and Humber Deanery, two cardiology speciality doctors, a junior cardiology fellow, a foundation year doctor, three resident doctors in training, a part-time hospital practitioner in cardiology, a consultant cardiac clinician scientist, and a consultant radiologist with interest in cardiac imaging. We are supported by two part-time hospital based heart failure nurses, an arrhythmia nurse, an advanced nurse practitioner, and a team of highly specialised cardiac physiologists, echo-sonographers and ECG technicians. There is further team of cardiac specialist nurses and a cardiac physiotherapist based in the community for heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation. The cardiology suite at Rotherham Hospital, adjacent to the coronary care unit, comprises the catheterisation/pacing laboratory, echocardiography rooms, rapid access chest pain clinics, exercise treadmill testing, tilt-table testing, and full ambulatory ECG monitoring fitting and analysis, as well as consultant offices and secretarial support. Nearby to the main cardiology suite is our cardiac device suite from which a physiologist-led implantable loop recorder service is run, plus permanent pacemaker, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and internal cardioverter defibrillator patients are pre-assessed and followed up with full optimisation service. The cardiology department has close links with other specialties and with regional cardiology/cardiothoracic colleagues. We have a fortnightly MS Teams MDT meeting with interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic colleagues from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, weekly regional and local MDT meetings for cardiac rhythm management, cardiac MRI imaging, infective endocarditis, a four-weekly heart failure MDT meeting with community colleagues, and a 6 weekly regional forum to discuss inherited cardiac condition patients. The Post You will be level 3 competent and experienced in cardiac MRI and have a vision for developing this service locally. You will also lead on reporting myocardial perfusion scintigraphy scans alongside a medical physicist. You will have had training and obtained full competency in all aspects of general Cardiology. One week in six you will be the consultant of the week responsible for undertaking and overseeing the inpatient cardiology patients on ward A1, responding to advice and guidance queries, triaging elective referrals, and being the point of contact for middle grade doctors who have reviewed inpatient ward referrals. Other duties are cancelled during this hot week. There is also a 1 in 6 consultant of the week rota for undertaking the CCU ward round and taking responsibility for these patients, supported by a middle grade and resident doctor, commencing at 8am. Other duties are not cancelled during the CCU week. You will undertake two outpatient clinics per week. You will participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, the clinical and educational supervision of trainees and support our physiologists and specialist nurses. There is no commitment to general medical on-call. Weekend review of cardiology inpatients and admissions to Rotherham Hospital is to be developed and the post holder will contribute to this activity. This duty will attract additional contracted programmed activity payment. For interested candidates there is the opportunity to develop research interest. We have a successful portfolio of research studies within the cardiology unit supported by a research nurse from the Trust R&D Department.