Job summary
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is excited to invite applications for an enthusiastic and motivated Locum Consultant in Cardiology with a special interest in Cardiac Devices. You will join a dedicated team of five cardiology consultants, working within a dynamic and expanding department that prioritizes innovation and patient-centered care.
As part of a well-established regional model of care, Rotherham has been commissioned as the second centre for complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up in South Yorkshire. Our Cath lab regularly collaborates with visiting consultants from across the region, including Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, ensuring access to the latest expertise and shared learning.
This is a six month fixed term full time post based at Rotherham General Hospital. Additionally, the post offers flexible working arrangements and a supportive, forward-thinking environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance.
If you are passionate about delivering high-quality cardiology care and contributing to the development of services, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be fully supported by the Cardiology consultants within their area and will work closely with other teams.
Friendly and dedicated nursing colleagues will also support new colleagues throughout their time at the Trust.
The department offers the opportunity to gain excellent experience within the Cardiology service, the management of a wide case mix of acute cardiac admissions across ward A1, Coronary Care Unit (CCU) and the Cardiac Catheter Suite (CCS). You will have had training in all aspects of general cardiology and sub-speciality training within the field of simple and complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up.
You will work within an inpatient bed base over 2 wards, including a CCU, which are home to friendly and engaged nursing teams. You will be supported by 5 consultant colleagues, 2 Specialty Doctors, 1 Higher Level trainees, 5 Resident doctors, an advanced nurse practitioner, a clinician scientist, heart failure and arrhythmia nurse specialists, and highly trained physiologists.
About us
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham.
As a Trust we are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a place to work? and were one of the most improved for staff engagement overall.
But dont just take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making.
All of our 5,100 colleagues are key to our improvement journey and we are continuing to improve our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together. If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us on our journey to excellence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Department
You will join a well-established cardiology unit within a tailor made cardiology suite including purpose built cardiac catheterisation laboratory. We have a state of the art Philips Azurion C12 cardiac catheterisation laboratory dedicated for cardiology. The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has been commissioned as the second centre for complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up in South Yorkshire as part of a regional model of care in contractual agreement with Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 2018. We have an 8 bed coronary care unit, 16 general cardiology beds, and a 6 bed cardiology day ward.
You will join a team of 5 other consultant cardiologists with varying subspecialty interests including cardiac device therapy, imaging, heart failure, and coronary intervention. We also have visiting consultants undertaking cardiac device implantation at Rotherham from the regional network. Local procedures include coronary angiography, right heart catheterisation, simple and complex cardiac device implantation, transthoracic echo, transoesophaegeal echo, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and cardiac CT imaging.
Other medical team members include two Cardiology SpR posts with training numbers from the South Yorkshire and Humber Deanery, two cardiology speciality doctors, a junior cardiology fellow, a foundation year doctor, three resident doctors in training, a part-time hospital practitioner in cardiology, a consultant cardiac clinician scientist, and a consultant radiologist with interest in cardiac imaging. We are supported by two part-time hospital based heart failure nurses, an arrhythmia nurse, an advanced nurse practitioner, and a team of highly specialised cardiac physiologists, echo-sonographers and ECG technicians. There is further team of cardiac specialist nurses and a cardiac physiotherapist based in the community for heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation.
The cardiology suite at Rotherham Hospital, adjacent to the coronary care unit, comprises a catheterisation/pacing laboratory and day ward, echocardiography rooms, rapid access chest pain clinics, exercise treadmill testing, tilt-table testing, and full ambulatory ECG monitoring fitting and analysis, as well as consultant offices and secretarial support. Nearby to the main cardiology suite is our cardiac device suite from which a physiologist-led implantable loop recorder service is run, plus permanent pacemaker, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and internal cardioverter defibrillator patients are pre-assessed and followed up with full optimisation service.
The cardiology department has close links with other specialties and with regional cardiology/cardiothoracic colleagues. We have a fortnightly MS Teams MDT meeting with interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic colleagues from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, weekly regional and local MDT meetings for cardiac rhythm management, cardiac MRI imaging, infective endocarditis, and a four-weekly heart failure MDT meeting with community colleagues.
The Post
This is a six month fixed term full time Consultant Cardiologist post with speciality interest in Cardiac Device Therapy based at Rotherham General Hospital. You will have had training in all aspects of general cardiology and sub-speciality training within the field of simple and complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up. This will include, but may not be limited to, bradycardia pacing, internal cardioverter defibrillator and cardiac resynchronisation therapy. You will be on the GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT from the date of your interview.
One week in six you will be the consultant of the week responsible for the coronary care unit, the general cardiology ward and for responding to advice and guidance queries, with prospective cover. Your will contribute to reviewing inpatient ward referrals and undertaking triaging of referrals to cardiology clinic. You will have a regular weekly complex device implant list and share in the bradycardia pacing +/- diagnostic coronary angiography work of the department. You will cross cover cath lab duties with the established complex device cardiologist and share in covering vacant sessions not taken by the visiting device implanters. You will undertake two outpatient clinics per week. You will participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, the supervision of trainees, support our physiologists, consultant clinician scientist and specialist nurses, and contribute consultant oversight to the cardiac device clinic follow-up service.
There is no commitment to general medical on-call. You will take part in weekend review of cardiology inpatients and admissions at Rotherham hospital. This will attract additional contracted programmed activity payment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Department
You will join a well-established cardiology unit within a tailor made cardiology suite including purpose built cardiac catheterisation laboratory. We have a state of the art Philips Azurion C12 cardiac catheterisation laboratory dedicated for cardiology. The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has been commissioned as the second centre for complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up in South Yorkshire as part of a regional model of care in contractual agreement with Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 2018. We have an 8 bed coronary care unit, 16 general cardiology beds, and a 6 bed cardiology day ward.
You will join a team of 5 other consultant cardiologists with varying subspecialty interests including cardiac device therapy, imaging, heart failure, and coronary intervention. We also have visiting consultants undertaking cardiac device implantation at Rotherham from the regional network. Local procedures include coronary angiography, right heart catheterisation, simple and complex cardiac device implantation, transthoracic echo, transoesophaegeal echo, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and cardiac CT imaging.
Other medical team members include two Cardiology SpR posts with training numbers from the South Yorkshire and Humber Deanery, two cardiology speciality doctors, a junior cardiology fellow, a foundation year doctor, three resident doctors in training, a part-time hospital practitioner in cardiology, a consultant cardiac clinician scientist, and a consultant radiologist with interest in cardiac imaging. We are supported by two part-time hospital based heart failure nurses, an arrhythmia nurse, an advanced nurse practitioner, and a team of highly specialised cardiac physiologists, echo-sonographers and ECG technicians. There is further team of cardiac specialist nurses and a cardiac physiotherapist based in the community for heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation.
The cardiology suite at Rotherham Hospital, adjacent to the coronary care unit, comprises a catheterisation/pacing laboratory and day ward, echocardiography rooms, rapid access chest pain clinics, exercise treadmill testing, tilt-table testing, and full ambulatory ECG monitoring fitting and analysis, as well as consultant offices and secretarial support. Nearby to the main cardiology suite is our cardiac device suite from which a physiologist-led implantable loop recorder service is run, plus permanent pacemaker, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and internal cardioverter defibrillator patients are pre-assessed and followed up with full optimisation service.
The cardiology department has close links with other specialties and with regional cardiology/cardiothoracic colleagues. We have a fortnightly MS Teams MDT meeting with interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic colleagues from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, weekly regional and local MDT meetings for cardiac rhythm management, cardiac MRI imaging, infective endocarditis, and a four-weekly heart failure MDT meeting with community colleagues.
The Post
This is a six month fixed term full time Consultant Cardiologist post with speciality interest in Cardiac Device Therapy based at Rotherham General Hospital. You will have had training in all aspects of general cardiology and sub-speciality training within the field of simple and complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up. This will include, but may not be limited to, bradycardia pacing, internal cardioverter defibrillator and cardiac resynchronisation therapy. You will be on the GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT from the date of your interview.
One week in six you will be the consultant of the week responsible for the coronary care unit, the general cardiology ward and for responding to advice and guidance queries, with prospective cover. Your will contribute to reviewing inpatient ward referrals and undertaking triaging of referrals to cardiology clinic. You will have a regular weekly complex device implant list and share in the bradycardia pacing +/- diagnostic coronary angiography work of the department. You will cross cover cath lab duties with the established complex device cardiologist and share in covering vacant sessions not taken by the visiting device implanters. You will undertake two outpatient clinics per week. You will participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, the supervision of trainees, support our physiologists, consultant clinician scientist and specialist nurses, and contribute consultant oversight to the cardiac device clinic follow-up service.
There is no commitment to general medical on-call. You will take part in weekend review of cardiology inpatients and admissions at Rotherham hospital. This will attract additional contracted programmed activity payment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration and a licence to practise with the GMC.
- Please confirm your GMC registration number
- MBBS or equivalent primary medical qualification.
- MRCP qualification or equivalent
- On the cardiology specialist register or within 6 months of completion of cardiology specialist training
- Subspecialty training and independent experience in cardiac device therapy implantation and follow-up
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive experience in all aspects of clinical cardiology
- Independence in pacemaker, ICD and CRT implantation and follow-up
Desirable
- Independence in diagnostic coronary angiography
- Experience of conduction system pacing
Education and Teaching
Essential
- Proven ability to teach and train others
Research and Audit
Essential
- Evidence of audit/quality improvement work and the implementation of change
Desirable
- Relevant research published in peer review journal
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems
- Demonstrates awareness and ability to undertake safe contemporary management of all cardiac diseases and presentations
- Evidence of competence in management of medical emergencies
- Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision
Management Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate effective team working skills
- Time management and organisational ability. An example may be they have developed and run training programmes
- Proven knowledge of systems and process of NHS or equivalent
- Sense of understanding and commitment to corporate responsibility
- Commitment to and understanding of their responsibility to the organisation. Examples may include previous involvement in management roles, management courses
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration and a licence to practise with the GMC.
- Please confirm your GMC registration number
- MBBS or equivalent primary medical qualification.
- MRCP qualification or equivalent
- On the cardiology specialist register or within 6 months of completion of cardiology specialist training
- Subspecialty training and independent experience in cardiac device therapy implantation and follow-up
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive experience in all aspects of clinical cardiology
- Independence in pacemaker, ICD and CRT implantation and follow-up
Desirable
- Independence in diagnostic coronary angiography
- Experience of conduction system pacing
Education and Teaching
Essential
- Proven ability to teach and train others
Research and Audit
Essential
- Evidence of audit/quality improvement work and the implementation of change
Desirable
- Relevant research published in peer review journal
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems
- Demonstrates awareness and ability to undertake safe contemporary management of all cardiac diseases and presentations
- Evidence of competence in management of medical emergencies
- Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision
Management Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate effective team working skills
- Time management and organisational ability. An example may be they have developed and run training programmes
- Proven knowledge of systems and process of NHS or equivalent
- Sense of understanding and commitment to corporate responsibility
- Commitment to and understanding of their responsibility to the organisation. Examples may include previous involvement in management roles, management courses
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
