Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PAs + On-call Duties)
- Job ref
- 196-LCON1149
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Locum Consultant in Cardiology - Electrophysiology and Devices
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
Applications are invited for a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Electrophysiology (EP). This is a locum post that will be integral to maintain the service delivery of the EP/Devices Department. The post-holder will be a fully trained and independent consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist. This individual will be able to perform outpatient clinics independently, run catheter lab electrophysiology intervention and device lists for investigation and treatment of patients with cardiac arrhythmias, as well as participate in the Consultant-of-the-week and arrhythmia on-call rota. The successful candidate will support the catheter labs and the wards by supervising the SpRs and clinical fellows in the day-to-day workflow. The post will involve close working with the Arrhythmia Clinical Nurse Specialists in order to decide which in-patients need to undergo invasive investigations and to coordinate inter-hospital transfers for treatment.
Main duties of the job
This is a full-time post (10 PAs), and the appointee will work closely go deliver clinical services with the 7 existing Electrophysiology consultants, nurse case managers and allied health professionals. The Cardiovascular Directorate at St Thomas' Hospital is one of the largest in the UK, with facilities including a six-bedded Coronary Care Unit, over 60 cardiology inpatient beds across two wards, special expertise in adult congenital heart disease, a suite of six adult and two congenital Catheter laboratories, four Cardiac theatres, a state of the art hybrid theatre and two dedicated outpatient centres. There is excellent provision of the full range of non-invasive testing including cardiac MRI.
The role will involve the delivery of patient care in outpatient settings and in the Cardiac Catheter Labs at St Thomas' Hospital, whilst working closely with the aforementioned teams.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts.
At the Guy's and St Thomas' sites, we provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide outpatient provision in order to support the delivery of patient care in the Electrophysiology Service
To support the Cardiology team with managing the community service (Bexley) and provide regular outpatient provision for patients in this cohort
To provide weekly Catheter Lab cover to help manage the demand for patients requiring Electrophysiology and Device procedures, supporting the Service with its elective recovery efforts
To provide on-call cover and support the ward and resident doctor teams to deliver a high standard of patient care
To provide COTW support for the wider Cardiology services which would include managing the wards and overseeing referral triage for the Cardiology services
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 Electrophysiology
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Expertise and Experience in the full range of Electrophysiology
- Recent Sub-specialist interest within Electrophysiology
- 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 a cardiology service
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Anoop Shetty
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Electrophysiology (at STH)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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