Job summary
Employer heading
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist (10 PA)
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) and the James
Paget University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (JPUH) are seeking to appoint a substantive Consultant Interventional Cardiologist to support the provision of interventional cardiology services to a large catchment population, including on-call for primary PCI.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining seven existing interventional consultants. We have recently expanded to five cath labs and a programme of refurbishment is currently underway.
The appointee will be expected to contribute to the delivery of elective and emergency PCI services, including cardiology on-call at NNUH (1:8 primary PCI on call rota). The post holder will spend two days at JPUH providing outpatient clinics, undertaking ward rounds on the Acute Cardiology Unit and supporting the investigational cardiology department
Working for our organisation
We serve a population of approximately 1m, with an estimated 10,000 patients with heart failure. We are passionate about improving the care of patients with heart failure in collaboration with community partners. We are particularly interested in developing pathways to avoid heart failure admissions, reduce length of stay and work across traditional boundaries between the hospital and community.
NNUH is a 1,200 bedded multidisciplinary teaching hospital with the full range of medical, surgical, obstetric and diagnostic services on site including 24/7 interventional radiology and thoracic surgical cover. The cardiology department includes 24 consultants with specialist interests including coronary disease and intervention, cardiac rhythm management, cardiac imaging, valve disease, heart failure and inherited cardiac conditions (ICC). Four academic consultants have joint appointments with the University of East Anglia Medical School
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached job description and full advert for details of the post and main responsibilities
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register Via; • CCT (Proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview) • CESR or • European Community Rights
Desirable criteria
- Current ALS
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Independent in percutaneous coronary intervention, including PPCI
- Good communicator
- Capable of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Enthusiasm for service development and teaching.
- Applicants who are Nationals from another European country or elsewhere overseas would have to show equivalence to the 5 years training period in the National Health Service required for the specialty training and expertise in children’s safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- Expertise in more advanced PCI including any of the following: Rotablation, IVUS / OCT, bifurcations, chronic total occlusions
- Previous responsibility for service improvement
- Management Skills
Communications&Language Skills
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of, and ability to use, spoken and written English
Desirable criteria
- Good presentation skills and teaching skills
Interests
Essential criteria
- Commitment to develop an appropriate special interest
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 Alisdair Ryding
- Job title
- Service Director, Consultant Cardiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 287690
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