Trust Fellow in Interventional Cardiology / Senior TAVI Fellow (ST3+)

apartmentThe Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust placeNewcastle upon Tyne calendar_month 

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients.

We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency.

Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

The successful candidate will work closely within the TAVI and the wider interventional team to support the growing TAVI service at the Freeman Hospital. They should have extensive experience in interventional cardiology and be an independent or have received high training volume for percutaneous coronary intervention.
The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of TAVI care and will be supported in gaining experience in the technical steps of TAVI procedure aiming to achieve an independent level operator by the end of their fellowship. As part of the TAVI team, the successful candidate should be able to demonstrate effective team working, leadership and communication skills.

They are expected to support research studies relating to TAVI, co-ordinate with research nurses and obtain data.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification

Main duties of the job

This post is an opportunity to gain experience in TAVI in a high-volume UK centre, aiming to achieve independent level by the end of the fellowship. This post would be suitable for a candidate who has high level interventional training and poses the required inter-personal skills to support the TAVI service at the Freeman Hospital.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Richard Edwards via email at [email protected] / Professor Azfar Zaman via email at [email protected] / Dr Mohammad Alkhalil via email at [email protected] / Dr Mohamed Farag via email at [email protected] or Professor Rajiv Das via email at [email protected]

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients.

We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

The successful candidate will work as part of the TAVI team. They will be responsible for patients undergoing TAVI, including procedural preparation and CT analysis, MDT work up, and post TAVI care. There will support one dedicated TAVI clinic per week.

They are expected to liaise with the TAVI specialist nurse to support the service for elective and urgent inter-hospital transfer.

Administrative:

Recording data following TAVI procedures in local databases, writing discharge summaries, communicating with General Practitioners, and liaising with TAVI specialist nurse about the TAVI service.

Research and Teaching:

There will be opportunity to conduct research studies related to TAVI and other structural heart interventions. The successful candidate is expected to support ongoing research activities within and outside the catheterisation laboratory. They are also expected to contribute to the weekly Journal Club and interesting interventional cases.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s 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

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Primary Medical Qualification.
  • Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise
Desirable criteria
  • Higher research degree (MSc or PhD)

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience of PCI procedures, including complex PCI
  • Proactive care of pre- and post-procedural patients
  • Insight into abilities and knowledge, and the ability to ask for help when required
Desirable criteria
  • High volume PCI experience (> 600 cases)
  • Previous experience in assisting TAVI procedures

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria
  • Ability to run a service and participate in management process.
  • Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
  • Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
  • An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
  • Proven management and administration ability.
  • Understanding of management goals
  • Experience with audit
  • Evidence of leadership / project management
  • Evidence of having implemented change

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience of supervising junior staff
  • Ability to teach clinical skills.

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

Essential criteria
  • Experience of audit projects and Clinical Governance
  • Understanding of research principles
Desirable criteria
  • Publications in interventional research

Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
  • Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Alignment with the Trust’s Values
  • Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
  • A commitment to personal / unit CPD
  • Time management skills
  • Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of leadership skills
  • IT literate.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment.

Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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