Job summary
As
a speciality doctor in cardiology at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust you
will join a well-established cardiology unit with facilities within a purpose
built cardiology suite.
You
will join a welcoming, innovative, hard-working and expanding team of
cardiology doctors, specialist nurses, physiologists and support staff.
The
successful candidate will be well supported and join as a middle-grade doctor
becoming intrinsically involved in the duties of a busy cardiology department.
This
is a non-training position but you will gain extensive experience within acute
and chronic cardiology and find a rewarding environment to learn and grow in
your cardiology role, being encouraged to develop a sub-speciality interest.
There is no commitment to general medical on-call. The role may be developed to
contribute to weekend cardiology patient review.
Main duties of the job
The primary clinical responsibilities of the post-holder are:
Provide cardiology support for inpatients and outpatients under the care of the cardiology consultants
Assist with patient review and management on the coronary care unit, inpatient cardiology ward, and outlying cardiology patients and referrals
Provide supervision and training of the Foundation and Resident doctors, helping with the safe management and effective discharge of patients
To see inpatient cardiology referrals from other specialities and discuss management with seniors as necessary
Take share in holding the cardiology Dect phone to provide urgent advice or review during working hours
To attend MDT meetings and liaise with other specialities
To provide supervision for certain cardiology procedures and investigations
Undertake outpatient clinics including general cardiology and rapid access chest pain clinics
To carry out teaching duties when requires, including for medical undergraduates from Sheffield University
Participating in medical grand round, clinical effectiveness and mortality and morbidity meetings
Attending to clinical administration in a timely manner, including dictation of consultations, reporting of investigations, signing of letters, and responding to queries from members of the cardiology team or primary care
Being flexible within their job description to assist with duties due to the unplanned absence of colleagues
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 an 8 bed coronary care unit, 16 general cardiology beds, and a 6 bed cardiology day ward.
You will join a team of 6 consultant cardiologists with varying subspecialty interests including imaging, cardiac device therapy, and coronary intervention (PCI procedures are undertaken at Sheffield). We also have visiting consultants undertaking complex 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 a second speciality doctor, two Cardiology STR posts with training numbers, 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, a hospital 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 state of the art catheterisation/pacing lab, 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 a shared middle grade doctors office. 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 MDT meeting with interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic colleagues at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, weekly MDT meetings for cardiac rhythm management, cardiac MRI imaging, infective endocarditis, and four-weekly heart failure MDT meeting with community colleagues.
The Post
This is a non-training full time specialty doctor post in Cardiology based at Rotherham General Hospital. Whilst the post is not recognised for training, the successful candidate will gain experience in all aspects of non-interventional cardiology and have extensive exposure to the management of acute and elective cardiac conditions. There is no commitment to general medical on call.
The primary clinical responsibilities of the post holder are:
Provide senior cardiology support for inpatients and outpatients under the care of the cardiology consultants.
Assist with patient review and management on the coronary care unit, inpatient cardiology ward and outlying cardiology patients and referrals
Provide a role in the supervision and training of the Foundation and Resident doctors in the team, helping with the safe management and effective discharge of patients
To see cardiology referrals from other specialties and discuss management with seniors as necessary
Take share in holding the cardiology Dect phone to provide urgent advise or review during working hours
To attend MDT meetings and liaise with other specialties for onward referrals
To provide supervision for certain cardiology procedures and investigations such as ETT, Myoview scans, CT coronary angiograms, DC cardioversions and contrast endocardiograms
Undertake outpatient clinics including general cardiology and rapid access chest pain clinics
To carry out teaching when required, including for medical undergraduates from Sheffield University
Participating in medical grand round, clinical effectiveness and mortality and morbidity meetings
Attending to clinical administration in a timely manner, including dictation of consultations, reporting of investigations, signing of letters and responding to queries from members of the cardiology team or primary care
Being flexible within their job description to assist with duties due to unplanned absence of colleagues
In due course participate in providing cardiology review and expediting the management of inpatients at weekends (which will result in an increase in programmed activity and remuneration)
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 an 8 bed coronary care unit, 16 general cardiology beds, and a 6 bed cardiology day ward.
You will join a team of 6 consultant cardiologists with varying subspecialty interests including imaging, cardiac device therapy, and coronary intervention (PCI procedures are undertaken at Sheffield). We also have visiting consultants undertaking complex 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 a second speciality doctor, two Cardiology STR posts with training numbers, 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, a hospital 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 state of the art catheterisation/pacing lab, 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 a shared middle grade doctors office. 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 MDT meeting with interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic colleagues at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, weekly MDT meetings for cardiac rhythm management, cardiac MRI imaging, infective endocarditis, and four-weekly heart failure MDT meeting with community colleagues.
The Post
This is a non-training full time specialty doctor post in Cardiology based at Rotherham General Hospital. Whilst the post is not recognised for training, the successful candidate will gain experience in all aspects of non-interventional cardiology and have extensive exposure to the management of acute and elective cardiac conditions. There is no commitment to general medical on call.
The primary clinical responsibilities of the post holder are:
Provide senior cardiology support for inpatients and outpatients under the care of the cardiology consultants.
Assist with patient review and management on the coronary care unit, inpatient cardiology ward and outlying cardiology patients and referrals
Provide a role in the supervision and training of the Foundation and Resident doctors in the team, helping with the safe management and effective discharge of patients
To see cardiology referrals from other specialties and discuss management with seniors as necessary
Take share in holding the cardiology Dect phone to provide urgent advise or review during working hours
To attend MDT meetings and liaise with other specialties for onward referrals
To provide supervision for certain cardiology procedures and investigations such as ETT, Myoview scans, CT coronary angiograms, DC cardioversions and contrast endocardiograms
Undertake outpatient clinics including general cardiology and rapid access chest pain clinics
To carry out teaching when required, including for medical undergraduates from Sheffield University
Participating in medical grand round, clinical effectiveness and mortality and morbidity meetings
Attending to clinical administration in a timely manner, including dictation of consultations, reporting of investigations, signing of letters and responding to queries from members of the cardiology team or primary care
Being flexible within their job description to assist with duties due to unplanned absence of colleagues
In due course participate in providing cardiology review and expediting the management of inpatients at weekends (which will result in an increase in programmed activity and remuneration)
Person Specification
Education and Teaching
Essential
- Proven ability to teach and train others
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC
- Please confirm your GMC registration number
- MBBS degree
- MRCP qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- 4 years full time post-graduate working in a clinical area (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty or equivalent experience and competencies
- At least 6 months experience in cardiology at Core Trainee level or equivalent
- Demonstrates commitment to the speciality of cardiology
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 cardiac diseases and presentations
- Evidence of competence in management of medical emergencies (especially cardiac emergencies) and in-patients through continuous work-based assessments or equivalent
- Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision where appropriate
- Demonstrate current ALS certification
Research and Audit
Essential
- Evidence of audit, quality improvement and the implementation of change following these.
Desirable
- Relevant research published in peer review journal
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
Person Specification
Education and Teaching
Essential
- Proven ability to teach and train others
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC
- Please confirm your GMC registration number
- MBBS degree
- MRCP qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- 4 years full time post-graduate working in a clinical area (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty or equivalent experience and competencies
- At least 6 months experience in cardiology at Core Trainee level or equivalent
- Demonstrates commitment to the speciality of cardiology
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 cardiac diseases and presentations
- Evidence of competence in management of medical emergencies (especially cardiac emergencies) and in-patients through continuous work-based assessments or equivalent
- Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision where appropriate
- Demonstrate current ALS certification
Research and Audit
Essential
- Evidence of audit, quality improvement and the implementation of change following these.
Desirable
- Relevant research published in peer review journal
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
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).
