Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 Duties and Responsibilities of the post

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

• Responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department;
• Cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences;
• To participate in service development and business planning in collaboration with the other Consultants in the department, the CMG and local GPs and commissioners within the local CCGs;
• Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures;
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally;
• Participating in medical audit, the Trust’s Clinical Governance processes and in CPD – CPD is provided in job plans and attendance at audit and other governance meetings is mandatory; Managerial, including budgetary responsibilities where appropriate and compliance with standing orders and standing financial instructions of the Trust.;
• In line with GMC Good Medical Practice it is the responsibility of the post-holder to ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest possible standard, and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the area of work.
• The post-holder is expected to respond in a timely fashion to legitimate requests from Trust officers – this might include investigations of incidents or complaints.
• The post-holder is expected to participate in teaching and training of junior staff and other clinical staff groups. The appointee will also have supervision responsibilities for junior medical staff within the specialty. If appropriate the post-holder will be named in the contract of junior staff as the person responsible for overseeing their training and as an initial source of advice to such doctors regarding their careers.
• The post-holder is expected to participate in professional continuing medical education; study leave is provided for this purpose.

·         The post-holder will be expected to undertake the Trust Corporate and Directorate specific Induction and competency Programmes appropriate to role.

·         The post-holder will be required to maintain their continuing professional development (CPD) to be able to successfully revalidate. As per the Trust requirement the successful candidate will be required to have annual appraisal and attend / keep fully up to date with statutory and mandatory training as stipulated.The post-holder will also undertake general and structural outpatient clinics, which will also include providing cover for the nurse-led rapid access chest-pain clinic.

·         The post holder will work with the structural team to undertake TAVI procedures. It is envisaged the post holder will have 3 PA per week for interventional/TAVI. There will be scope following appointment to develop additional experience in other structural procedures commensurate with the post holders experience, as well as the requirements of the clinical service.

• The post holder will also undertake review of patients who have been referred to the structural cardiology service for consideration of procedures. This will include review of patients on the ward as well as outpatient review of patients referred from within UHL and other cardiology units.

·         The post holder will also be expected to contribute to the structural multidisciplinary team meetings.

·         The post holder will be expected to work with the structural team, including the TAVI co-ordinator, structural nurse specialist team, imaging consultants, cardiac radiologists and cardiac surgeons in delivering high-quality care to patients with valvular heart disease.

·         The post holder will contribute to the structural “consultant of the day” rota, which will involve care of post-procedural TAVI patients as well as availability to provide review of patients referred to the structural cardiology service and clinical advice to the TAVI nurse specialists.

·         The post holder will be expected to contribute to the coronary intervention service. This will include undertaking elective and inpatient coronary procedures, including undertaking complex PCI procedures and primary PCI as part of the coronary intervention on-call rota on a 1:10 basis. The post-holder is likely to have 1-2 sessions per week for coronary intervention. The post-holder would also be expected to contribute to the coronary interventional/cardiac surgery MDT in the management of complex coronary patients.