Employer: University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Poole Hospital
Town: Poole
Salary: £105,504
Closing: 09/10/2024 23:59
Locum Consultant Cardiologist subspecialty in Heart Failure & Imaging
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
As University Hospitals Dorset , we are a three-site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches, you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth, and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming, and productive place to work.
Job overview
Applications are being sought for the post of Locum Consultant Cardiologist, with a special interest in heart failure and cardiac imaging. This is a fixed-term 12-month locum; you must have (or be within 6 months of obtaining) a CCT in cardiology. This position covers heart failure, including inherited conditions clinic and cardiac imaging, to include MRI, CT, stress echo, and TOE, but other sub-specialty experience will also be considered in suitable candidates.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will be expected to undertake administrative duties associated with the running of his/her clinical work. There will be full secretarial support and the provision of fully equipped office and IT facilities. The appointee will be expected to take a full part in professional activities required for revalidation, including clinical audit. All these activities are designated as “supporting activities” on the job plan. In common with all newly appointed consultants, there is access to a mentoring scheme for the successful candidate.
The appointee will be expected to spend 10 Programmed Activities (average 4-hour sessions) per week as laid out in the provisional job plan based on Direct Patient Care. This will include work related to prevention, emergency work (including on-call), subspecialty sessions, ward rounds, outpatient activities, clinical diagnostic work, other patient treatment, public health duties, multi-disciplinary meetings, and administration relating to the above. Timetables may be changed in the future to meet the changing needs of the Directorate, and the successful candidate could be asked to take on additional work in general cardiology depending on their skill set - this will attract additional PAs.
Working for our organisation
This is a very exciting time to be working in Dorset. Poole and Royal Bournemouth Hospitals are now part of University Hospitals Dorset. Both sites are currently undergoing major building projects. During 2023, acute work will begin to move to the Bournemouth Site, with more elective activity on the Poole site. This post will involve working on both sites, but with most of the time being spent working on the Poole site.
The successful applicant will join an enthusiastic, hard-working team of 18 other cardiologists and one associate specialist, located across sites at Bournemouth and Poole hospitals. The unit is characterised by exceptionally close team working and cohesive strategy, with excellent functional MDT meetings in cross-sectional imaging, echocardiography, endocarditis, surgery (by direct videoconference link), inherited cardiac disease, and EP/devices. The successful applicant will share the Cardiology Directorate's core values of excellence and team working.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Post CCT/CCST or will receive within 6 months
- MRCP or equivalent
- Accreditation in GIM
Experience
- At least 3 years general cardiology experience including acute cardiology and CCU
- Evidence of sub-specialist training
- Competent in all aspects of echocardiography, stress echo, and TOE
- Experience of cross-sectional cardiac imaging (CT/MRI)
Technical Skills and Competencies
- Experience teaching colleagues
- Achieved first name publications in refereed journals
- Departmental management experience including outpatient priorities and waiting lists
- Completed management courses
- Formal undergraduate and postgraduate teaching (courses run, lectures given, etc.)
Personal Attributes
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional, or national level
- Commitment to continuing medical education
Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While this vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.
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.
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