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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Locum: 6 months
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PAs + On-call Duties)
Job ref
196-LCON1121
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Harefield Hospital
Town
Harefield, Middx
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum excl. London Zone
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/06/2025 23:59
Interview date
24/06/2025

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Locum Consultant in Interventional Cardiology

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

The Harefield Hospital cardiology team is looking for a Locum Consultant with a specialisation in Interventional Cardiology. The post holder will be expected to provide specialist cardiology services on the Harefield Hospital site, but candidates might be expected to work across all the Guy's and St Thomas' sites included the Royal Brompton. 

This is an excellent opportunity to join a first class team in an active and progressive outer London teaching hospital environment. 

General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Dr Vas Panoulas ([email protected]) Clinical Lead for Interventional Cardiology.

This post may close early if sufficient number of applicants have been received.

Main duties of the job

Your job plan is anticipated to contain 10 Programmed Activities per week to be negotiated between the consultant and his/her clinical director, and may be flexed to accommodate evolving clinical service requirements. An indicative proposed timetable is included in the job description; the workload will be a mix of ward round, cardiac catheterisation lab lists and OP clinics which will comprise of a mix of new and follow-up patients. 

Final confirmation of the proposed initial timetable will be completed prior to taking up the post with the successful candidate.  Flexibility will remain within the job plan to allow effective coverage of procedural and clinic commitments and the timetable will be variable week on week. 

Working for our organisation

Harefield Hospital (HH) is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, and an international centre for adult heart and heart-lung transplantation. It is one of a small number of UK cardiac centres assisting in development of implantable mechanical ventricular assist devices in the management of end-stage heart failure. It also provides a primary intervention service for acute coronary syndromes to selected Trusts and the London Ambulance Service, in outer West London and the Home Counties. It has approximately 1,185 staff, 180 beds with 5 operating theatres, and 4 catheter laboratories.

The Trust consists of St Thomas’ Hospital at Waterloo, including the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital and Guy’s Hospital at London Bridge. Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide clinical services in Cardiology in accordance with clinical and legal requirements and in keeping with the international role of the Trust.

To take part in and maintain a 24-hour service for primary angioplasty and acute coronary syndromes at Harefield Hospital. With this post the on-call commitment shall be 1 in 8. At present the acute primary angioplasty work involves about 1100 admissions per year with about 60% being acute heart attacks requiring PCI.

Involvement in the TAVI programme will be encouraged for those interested and with suitable training.

To engage in clinical research in invasive and interventional cardiology at a level in keeping with the 5* research rating of the National Heart & Lung Institute. 

 To supervise and deliver clinical and technical education in invasive and interventional cardiology and to maintain the international teaching profile of the Trust. 

Please see attached JD for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training:

Essential criteria
  • MRCP or equivalent qualification Full GMC Registration Entry on the Specialist Register as holding a CCT in Cardiology or equivalent Full training in interventional cardiology

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Expertise and Experience in the full range of interventional cardiology including the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction
  • Recent ALS or ILS course Sub-specialist interest within interventional cardiology
  • Participation in a recognised scheme of continuing medical education
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching experience at national level

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Sound knowledge of invasive cardiology
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills in line with the Trust's Core Behavious
  • Sound knowledge of radiation protection matters in invasive cardiology
  • Evidence of participation in service improvement projects
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing and developing an interventional cardiology service

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Applicant requirements

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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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Vas Panoulas
Job title
Consultant in Int Cardiology and Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01895 828666
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