Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiac Surgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (Plus On-call 1 in 6)
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-7274563-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
We are recruiting a substantive Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the Oxford Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital. The Oxford Heart Centre is a busy tertiary cardiac centre, offering cardiology and cardiothoracic surgical services to all the surrounding districts. The post-holder will contribute to adult cardiac surgical provision within the Trust.
The post-holder will be provided with appropriate office facilities and secretarial support to fulfil this role. This is a replacement post with an established referral base, but the post-holder will be encouraged and supported to develop new referral pathways.
Main duties of the job
The postholder’s duties will be primarily at the John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.
It is expected that the post-holder will contribute to adult cardiac surgical provision within the Trust including out-patient clinics, operating lists, and ward rounds. The post-holder will provide on-call emergency cover for adult cardiac surgery on a 1:6 rota including a regular weekend ward round. The post-holder will be provided with appropriate office facilities (shared office, networked PC) and secretarial support to fulfil this role. This is a replacement post with an established referral base, but the post-holder will be encouraged and supported to develop new referral pathways.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
It is expected that the post-holder will contribute to adult cardiac surgical provision within the Trust including out-patient clinics, operating lists, and ward rounds. The post-holder will provide on-call emergency cover for adult cardiac surgery on a 1:6 rota including a regular weekend ward round. The post-holder will be provided with appropriate office facilities (shared office, networked PC) and secretarial support to fulfil this role. This is a replacement post with an established referral base, but the post-holder will be encouraged and supported to develop new referral pathways.
Teaching/Research
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.
Clinical Governance
The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust and external accrediting bodies.
Personal and Professional Development
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up to date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs. The post-holder will be offered the resources required to support their professional revalidation.
Mentoring
The post-holder will be offered personal and clinical mentorship by a senior consultant within the department according to their sub-specialty interest(s). Mentorship from a senior consultant will be available during the working week and over on-call weekday nights and weekends.
Management
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. The post-holder will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of their patients, and the running of their clinical service under the direction of the lead clinician and/or directorate chair.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Training in adult cardiac surgery to specialist level or equivalent.
- Consultant-level experience
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
- Potential to develop and grow in experience within a team structure
- Mentor-based professional development
- A specific sub-interest aortic surgery
Desirable criteria
- Consultant-level experience in the management of non-selective cardiothoracic on call
Qualifications/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC
- FRCS(C-Th) or qualification of an equivalent level.
- CCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (PhD, MD, MBA, MSc
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Peer-reviewed publications
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the current organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation
- Management training and experience
- Computing skills: ability to use a word processor, spreadsheet programme, and web browser.
- Formal educational qualification
- Formal clinical governance, quality improvement, or similar role
- Experience in human factors and simulation-based team training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Vivek Srivastava
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Cardiac Surgery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 220442
- Additional information
Candidates are encouraged to visit the Department and hospital and are invited to contact Mr Vivek Srivastava, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Cardiac Surgery through his PA, Tracy Jubber ([email protected], 01865 220442) and Mr. George Krasopoulos, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon and Head of program for Aortic surgery, through his PA, Sue Foster or Michele Crawford ([email protected], [email protected], 01865 220269).
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