Job overview

Applications are invited for a cardiology fellow post at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This job is aimed at individuals who have some experience in treating patients with inherited cardiac conditions and wish to further advance their clinical training in the fields of inherited cardiac conditions, acquired conditions predisposing to cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in the young and Sports Cardiology.

The Inherited Cardiac Conditions service at St George’s hospital has been in existence since the 1990s and is one of the largest in the country. The service receives referrals from local cardiologists (catchment population over 1 million) and referrals from consultants nationally. It provides an integrated ‘one-stop’ assessment from a multi-disciplinary team in accordance with Chapter 8 of the National Service Framework and aims to evaluate and manage individuals and families at risk of or with established inherited cardiac conditions and other cardiovascular conditions which may predispose to sudden cardiac death. The service focuses on families with unexplained sudden deaths (SADS) and ion channel diseases such as the long QT and Brugada syndromes and cardiomyopathies such as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and dilated cardiomyopathy. There are five full time nurses attached to the clinic as well as weekly sessions from a nurse genetics counsellor and a clinic coordinator.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work within our Centre for Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology and will conduct supervised outpatient clinics, participate in the in-patient care of patients with inherited cardiac conditions and support the community cardiac screening programme of the charitable organisation Cardiac Risk in the Young. Depending on their sub-specialty interest will have the opportunity to receive further training on cardiac MRI, transthoracic, transoesophageal or stress echocardiography, electrophysiology, devices, heart failure and connective tissue diseases.

The successful applicant will be supervised by our team of consultants including Professor Elijah Behr, Professor Michael Papadakis, Professor Sanjay Sharma, Dr Mark Specterman and Professor Maite Tome who have a world-renowned reputation in the cardiomyopathies and ion channelopathies. Enthusiasm and self-motivation are essential for the post. The successful applicant should be able to work independently but should also be flexible and a good team member.

Working for our organisation

With nearly 8,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George’s Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London (details below).   St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages.  These services are provided from Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, 11 health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries, patient’s homes and Wandsworth Prison.