Job Overview
We are looking for an Interventional Consultant Cardiologist to join the team at Wexham Park Hospital to join a team of 11 Consultant Cardiologists. This is a full-time post (10 Programmed Activities).
This Interventional Consultant Cardiologist post will join the existing team of 11 Cardiologists. The Consultant team comprises five Interventionalists, two Electrophysiologists (cross site), two heart failure and device consultants and two imaging Consultants delivering emergency, acute and elective care for inpatients and outpatients.
At Wexham Park Hospital we have 2 state of the art Cardiac Catheter Laboratory suites. According to BCIS data over the last 3 years we perform between 800-1000 PCI’s per year (including 200-250 PPCI activation for STEMI). We have full use of adjunctive technology including, IVUS, OCT, Calcium modification (Shockwave and Rotablation) and Coronary Physiology with Coroventis (FFR, RFR). We also run parallel EP lists and will be starting AF ablation in 2025. We have 2 dedicated Cardiac device lists for Brady pacing, ICD implantation and CRT devices.
We have close links with Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust who support our Heart team MDT on a weekly basis for complex cardiac patients including those that require Cardiac surgery or mechanical circulatory support.
Main duties of the job
The Interventional Cardiologist will have 1 full Cath lab day per week with 24/7 primary PCI on call commitments of 1 in 5 weekday and 1 in 6 weekend based at Wexham Park Hospital. The post holder will also participate in the Consultant of the week rota in which they will be responsible for daily Consultant led ward rounds of our 14 bedded CCU, daily board round and three times per week ward round of our dedicated Cardiac step-down unit (16 beds) and in reaching into key areas within the hospital to provide specialist opinions as required. The candidates job plan will consist of 2 general Cardiology clinics (1 face to face clinic and 1 virtual clinic) there will also be 1 sessions of ‘Advice & Guidance’ and triaging of electronic referrals to work collaboratively with Primary care.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The job description is attached. It is assumed that every member of the department will play a full part in formal and informal teaching of medical and other staff and this is recognized as part of Supporting Clinical Activities (SPA).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP or equivalent through EEC rules
- Possession of CCT of within six months of receipt
- Full GMC registration
- Understanding of the structures of NHS hospitals and willing to play a role in the department and in the hospital
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (for example MD or PhD)
Professional, Specialist, and Functional experience
Essential criteria
- Angiography, PCI, and primary PCI experience
- ALS
- Willingness to be involved in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level
- Understand principles and participated in audit activity
- Understand the principles of clinical governance and demonstrate experience of evidence-based practice
Desirable criteria
- General Medicine experiance
- Previous experience in teaching and training including simulation
- Pacemaker implant/explant experience
Specific competencies for role
Essential criteria
- Ability to be proactive
- Demonstrate being an effective team member
- Able to demonstrate leadership qualities
- Able to evaluate own clinical practice
- Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to organise and develop service provision
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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