Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 230-34251792-PCD-A
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot NHS Trust
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £113,565 - £150,569 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Cardiology Consultant with special interest in complex devices/ pacing
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
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Job overview
Consultant Cardiologist with special interest in complex cardiac devices and pacing
Full Time - 10 sessions per week
Permanent
Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 per annum
Closing Date: Monday 13th July 2026
Interview Date: Wednesday 23rd September 2026 (TBC)
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- This is a full-time post for a Cardiology Consultant with special interest in complex cardiac devices and pacing. (10.0 PA).
- The appointee will work in collaboration with the other Cardiology Consultants, other Specialist Consultants, Doctors in Training, Cardiology Specialist Nurses and Physiological Sciences.
- The role will be delivering outpatient and inpatient Cardiology services to the local population serviced by the George Eliot Hospital Trust, to share facilities and provide continuity to patients and staff and deliver high standards of care.
- Specific duties will include up to four Cath Lab sessions per week and up to two outpatient clinics per week. A typical clinic will consist of 5 new patients and 4 follow-up patients per clinic.
Main duties of the job
- The purpose of this role is to support and further develop the Cardiology service and to provide daily review of patients and senior decision making to ensure optimal and early review of patients.
- This post of Consultant in Cardiology based at The George Eliot NHS Trust in Nuneaton will form part of the ongoing development of the Cardiology Department, giving exciting opportunities to shape the service for the future. You will join the existing Cardiology Team in providing a first class service for the population of Nuneaton and Bedworth, North Warwickshire, North Coventry and South West Leicestershire.
- These posts are a key part of the Trusts strategy to deliver a step change in the clinical model for managing unplanned medical attendances. With established close working relationships between Cardiology and the medical specialties, the appointee will join a highly motivated team.
- The George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust delivers significant under-graduate and post-graduate medical education and benefits from strong links with the University of Warwick.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The principle duty of this post is to provide a comprehensive service as a Consultant Cardiologist and as a lead for implanting and managing complex cardiac pacing devices including cardiac resynchronisation pacemakers and defibrillators. Additional skills such as cross-sectional cardiac imaging or heart failure management will be an advantage.
- The post holder will be required to participate in a Consultant of the Week ward rota for the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) which is an 18 bedded unit with an assessment area. The ward has facilities for continuous 12 lead ECG and haemodynamic monitoring as well as temporary cardiac pacing. There are 4 CHF ACS and AF specialist nurses that offer an in-reach service for patients with ACS and AF on the Cardiology Ward and in Acute Medical Wards.
- A diagnostic Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory is available at George Eliot Hospital. Cardiac catheterisation and interventional sessions are also utilised at the local tertiary centre - the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW), with whom the team has a close liaison. The role will ensure a full pacing service (Single and Dual Chamber Implants, complex devices) operating our of George Eliot Hospital with the Pacing Implants carried out in the Interventional Radiology Suite. There is currently 2 pacing sessions per week at GEH.
- The role requires participation in a GIM on-call rota based at GEH.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Broad clinical experience within Cardiology including ability to insert and manage complex cardiac devices.
- Ability to perform and interpret cardiac MR and Cardiac CT
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate a good understanding of the NHS
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP or equivalent
- Full GMC Registration with licence to practice
- ALS Certification
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via: CCT (Proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview date, CESR or European Community Rights
Desirable criteria
- Appropriate higher degree, e.g. MD, PhD or equivalent
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Thorough and detailed knowledge of medical audit, medical education, current clinical and medical best practice
- Understanding of the Clinical Governance process
- Ability to lead, communicate, liaise and negotiate with others
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of a specialist service
- Ability to motivate, innovate and support staff of all disciplines
- Ability to manage and lead a clinical team
- Ability to supervise, appraise, coach and mentor trainee and other doctors
- Understanding of the concepts of management
Desirable criteria
- Competent in basic information technology
- Experience of service development
- Awareness of health service reforms and issues across all healthcare economy
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Caring attitude to patients
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Excellent inter-personal qualities
- Credible and persuasive presence both amongst clinical and management colleagues
- Ability to listen and communicate effectively (written, public speaking and presentational)
- Ability to work collaboratively with the Executive Team
- Ability to achieve objectives
- Ability to work within a multi-professional and multi disciplinary framework
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to motivate and support staff of all disciplines
- Excellent personal time and management skills
Teaching and Education
Essential criteria
- Ability to design and deliver talks/lectures/workshops effectively
- Experienced in demonstrating clinical procedures/techniques to other healthcare professionals
- Commitment to continuing medical education
- Ability to organise and participate in and evidence of teaching and training undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Appraisal and assessment training skills
Audit, Research and Publications
Essential criteria
- Undertaken complete audit cycle
- Participated in completed clinical research projects
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical practice
- Published research in peer-reviewed journals
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues
- Interest and awareness of research methodology
Desirable criteria
- Ability to demonstrate recent evidence of relevant and continued research
- Higher degree by research
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
- Dr Suresh Krishnamoorthy
- Job title
- Cardiology Consultant and CD - Planned Care.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476 351351
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