Senior Clinical Fellow in ACHD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Workload:

The candidate will be expected to contribute to all aspects of the inpatient and outpatient ACHD service. The exact clinical workload will depend on the candidates experience and areas of interest, but it is expected that the candidate will independently undertake at least one ACHD clinic per week and contribute to the Consultant ACHD on call rota with support from the ACHD consultant body.

Teaching and Training Commitments:

GSTT is both an undergraduate and a postgraduate teaching centre and Clinical fellows are expected to take an active role in the postgraduate teaching activities. Clinical fellows should attend ward rounds as required and these rounds should be considered a teaching opportunity for more junior staff. In addition they may be required to undertake informal teaching of medical students, nurses and other paramedical staff.

Job Summary

The post holder will work closely with cardiology and surgical congenital teams, alongside specialist ACHD clinical nurse specialists and physiologists, to assist in providing comprehensive seven-day-a-week in patient ACHD care, as well as regular outpatient commitments. They should therefore have completed a significant amount of ACHD training. They will be expected to provide general cardiology/medical supervision of the outpatient clinic and may be asked to give a cardiology opinion for ACHD patients under the care of other services within GSTT.

The post holder is expected to be proficient in congenital transthoracic echocardiography and be able to support the physiologist team.

Depending on their area of interest the post-holder will also have the opportunity to further their experience in peri-operative TOE, congenital cross-sectional imaging, pulmonary hypertension, pregnancy and heart disease and congenital intervention.

Clinical Governance:

All medical and dental staff are expected to take part in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management. They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their appraisal.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Full GMC Registration
• MRCP completed or equivalent

Desirable

• On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Expertise in main aspects of ACHD
• Comprehensive experience in cardiology

Desirable

• Further expertise in relevant sub-specialty- imaging/cardiac obstetric medicine/pulmonary hypertension/ congenital intervention

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in congenital echocardiography
• Competent in general medical procedures
• Good communication skills

Desirable

• EACVI CHD certification in transthoracic echo (or equivalent).
• Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Guys and St Thomas'

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)