Consultant Cardiologist - Echocardiology

Job summary

This is an exciting new position to strengthen our cardiac diagnostic team and bring new individual skills to our department within Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, the post comprises general cardiology commitments and contribution to the cardiology on call rota.

It is our aim that this consultant appointment will develop and deliver a specialist heart valve clinic for Hampshire Hospitals patients, lead our echo team and service to British Society of Echocardiography departmental accreditation within 18 months, undertake specialist transoesophageal and stress echo imaging lists, offer an expert opinion on transthoracic echo findings and their management, develop a culture of learning within the echo team, improve pathways for those with suspected endocarditis and finally support the development of a local linked structural intervention service.

The appointed consultant would be expected to provide general cardiology outpatient clinic activity, take an equal share of the inpatient workload by participation in the "Cardiologist of the Week" in hours rota, contribute to the cover for out of hours cardiology care including weekend ward rounds and engage with learning and clinical governance within the cardiology department

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role would be to facilitate:

• Stress Echo
• Valve clinics
• TOE
• General Cardiology Clinics
• Echo MDT and BSE accreditation
• Consultant of the Week rota
• General Cardiology on- call rota
• Involved in service development and audit

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.