Job summary
We
are looking for an individual to fill this replacement post within the
Cardiology Department at the Leeds General Infirmary.
The
echocardiography and valve service is led by Dr Dominik Schlosshan together
with Dr Ananth Kidambi, Dr Kate Gatenby and Dr James ONeill. The purpose of
this appointment is to continue core cardiology clinical activity following
departure, and support further expansion and innovation within of the
echocardiography , support for the structural valve disease programme and valve
services.
The
successful applicant must hold a CCST or equivalent, and have completed higher
specialist training (or equivalent).
Applicants
must be eligible to apply for inclusion on the specialist register.
Applicants
should have established skills in Cardiology and its related specialties
including echocardiography and heart valve disease.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest
teaching hospital trusts in Europe, with access to leading clinical expertise
and medical technology. We care for
people from all over the country as well as the 780k residents of Leeds. The Trust has a budget of £1 billion. Our 15k staff ensures that every year we
treat 1,5m people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient settings, comprising 100,000-day
cases, 125,000 in-patients, 200k A&E visits and 1m out-patient
appointments. We operate from 7
hospitals on 5 sites all linked by the same vision, philosophy, and culture
to be the best for specialist and integrated care.
Main duties of the job
This
appointment will be based at the Leeds General Infirmary, one of the largest
and most modern tertiary cardiac centres in the UK, serving a population of
over 3 million. There are 6 state of the art Cardiac Catheter laboratories,
with over 2000 PCIs, including 24/7 primary PCI, over 900 invasive
electrophysiology/cardiac ablations and in excess of 700 implantable device
procedures per annum, making the West Yorkshire Heart Centre one of the highest
volume units in the UK. The Valve clinic and interventional TAVI service is the
largest in the UK outside of London. In addition, ICC, advanced imaging,
cardiac MRI, adult congenital cardiology, paediatric cardiology and
interventional paediatric cardiology, as well as adult and paediatric cardiac
surgical services, all complement each other within the same site.
The
department consists of 2 inpatient wards (one acute admissions cardiology
ward), a day case interventional ward, a day case seated suite, 6 lab catheter
suite and a 10 bed CCU.
The
post is fixed term for 6 months starting as soon as possible, with options to
extend if mutually agreed.
Further
information and contact details can be found in the attached job description.
Prospective
applicants are encouraged to visit the department and are invited to contact
any of the following persons:
Dr
Andrew Hogarth Clinical Director
Dr
Dominik Schlosshan Lead Clinician
Dr
Kate Gatenby Lead Clinician
Mrs
Gina McGawley General Manager
01133925680
About us
Come
and join our team in Leeds and become part of The Leeds Way sharing our
vision and values. Our Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care
and rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute health providers in
the UK and based in one of the fastest growing and vibrant cities in the north.
At
Cardio-Respiratory CSU, we aim to be a fair and supportive CSU with positive,
caring teams who are champions of the Leeds Way values. Our values are part of
what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well
as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what
they see as important to how we work.
Our five values are:
Patient-centred
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process
of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As
such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right
to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do
experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please
bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if
you have any questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This
appointment will be based at the West Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds General
Infirmary.
This
is a 10 PA locum appointment for a Locum Consultant Cardiologist with a focus
on valvular heart disease and echocardiography. Applicants with specialist
interests in other elements of the cardiology service will be welcome to
apply.
This
post holder will flexibly deliver 10 PAs of valvular heart disease outpatient
and echocardiography with up to 1.5 PAs negotiable for other specialist
interests, if mutually agreed.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe.
It serves tertiary population of 3 million across the West Yorkshire region.
There is a team of 33 full or part time Consultant Cardiologists.
We
care for people from all over the country as well as the 780,000 residents of
Leeds. The Trust has a budget of £1
billion. Our 15,000 staff ensures that
every year we treat 1,500,000 people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient
settings, comprising 100,000 day cases, 125,000 in-patients, 200,000 A&E
visits and 1,050,000 out-patient appointments. We operate from 7 hospitals on 5 sites all
linked by the same vision, philosophy and culture to be the best for
specialist and integrated care.
The
Cardiac imaging department in Leeds offers all cardiac imaging modalities
including Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR), Cardiovascular Computed
Tomography (CTCA) and is led by Dr Dominik Schlosshan, clinical lead for
cardiac imaging.
The
Cardiac imaging department is supported by 10 imaging consultant
cardiologists dedicated to cardiovascular imaging with a broad range of
expertise.
The
Cardiac Ultrasound department performs over 25000 transthoracic
echocardiograms, including all specialty techniques such as 3D and strain
imaging, more than 2,000 stress echos and in excess of 500 transoesophageal
echos (TOE) and interventional TOE.
The
department actively supports a tertiary heart valve disease service with pre
procedure imaging and interventional TOE for trans-catheter and surgical
valve intervention.
Leeds
provides one of the largest valve services in the UK. It offers all streams
of a heart valve centre of excellence including valve surveillance,
assessment of complex valve disease, surgical and trans-catheter treatment of
valve disease within a multidisciplinary team.
Leeds
receives region wide referrals for valve disease management, collaborating
with interventional colleagues, Cardiac Surgery and Valve teams
Leeds
offers one of the largest trans-catheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) programs
in the UK with > 500 TAVI implants annually. There is a growing mitral
intervention program and Leeds is a commissioned regional centre for
transcatheter edge to edge repair (TEER) performing around 50 TEER procedures annually.
There
is also interventional TOE support for LAA closure, paravalvar leak closures,
post MI ventricular septal defect closures, TAVI in MVR and percutaneous
transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC).
The
department actively participates in valve multidisciplinary meetings,
peri-operative TOE and after care in patients with valve disease. There is
also a highly regarded congenital and adult congenital echo service that
supports PFO and ASD closures
Leeds
has a strong record of innovation and is involved in several multinational
clinical trials in trans-catheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) and
tricuspid valve replacement.
The
CMR department is led by Prof Plein a BSCMR accredited CMR laboratories and
performs over 2,500 clinical CMR scans covering all indications from
congenital to stress CMR. The department uses two state of the art Philips
MRI scanners (1.5 Ingenia and 3 Tesla Achieva) and a 3T Siemens scanner.
The
Cardiac CT service is led by Radiology with Cardiology participation and uses
a Siemens Force scanner performing over 1200 CT coronary angiograms and a
large number of gated scans for interventional planning of structural
interventions. CT images are analysed using a dedicated software
(3Mensio).
There
are active Teaching and Research links with the Leeds School of Medicine and
the University of Leeds, both well situated on adjacent sites. The CMR
research group has a world leading reputation for its clinical research
including large single and multi-centre imaging trials and currently employs
8 clinical fellows.
The
post is fixed term for 6 months starting as soon as possible, with options to
extend if mutually agreed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This
appointment will be based at the West Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds General
Infirmary.
This
is a 10 PA locum appointment for a Locum Consultant Cardiologist with a focus
on valvular heart disease and echocardiography. Applicants with specialist
interests in other elements of the cardiology service will be welcome to
apply.
This
post holder will flexibly deliver 10 PAs of valvular heart disease outpatient
and echocardiography with up to 1.5 PAs negotiable for other specialist
interests, if mutually agreed.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe.
It serves tertiary population of 3 million across the West Yorkshire region.
There is a team of 33 full or part time Consultant Cardiologists.
We
care for people from all over the country as well as the 780,000 residents of
Leeds. The Trust has a budget of £1
billion. Our 15,000 staff ensures that
every year we treat 1,500,000 people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient
settings, comprising 100,000 day cases, 125,000 in-patients, 200,000 A&E
visits and 1,050,000 out-patient appointments. We operate from 7 hospitals on 5 sites all
linked by the same vision, philosophy and culture to be the best for
specialist and integrated care.
The
Cardiac imaging department in Leeds offers all cardiac imaging modalities
including Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR), Cardiovascular Computed
Tomography (CTCA) and is led by Dr Dominik Schlosshan, clinical lead for
cardiac imaging.
The
Cardiac imaging department is supported by 10 imaging consultant
cardiologists dedicated to cardiovascular imaging with a broad range of
expertise.
The
Cardiac Ultrasound department performs over 25000 transthoracic
echocardiograms, including all specialty techniques such as 3D and strain
imaging, more than 2,000 stress echos and in excess of 500 transoesophageal
echos (TOE) and interventional TOE.
The
department actively supports a tertiary heart valve disease service with pre
procedure imaging and interventional TOE for trans-catheter and surgical
valve intervention.
Leeds
provides one of the largest valve services in the UK. It offers all streams
of a heart valve centre of excellence including valve surveillance,
assessment of complex valve disease, surgical and trans-catheter treatment of
valve disease within a multidisciplinary team.
Leeds
receives region wide referrals for valve disease management, collaborating
with interventional colleagues, Cardiac Surgery and Valve teams
Leeds
offers one of the largest trans-catheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) programs
in the UK with > 500 TAVI implants annually. There is a growing mitral
intervention program and Leeds is a commissioned regional centre for
transcatheter edge to edge repair (TEER) performing around 50 TEER procedures annually.
There
is also interventional TOE support for LAA closure, paravalvar leak closures,
post MI ventricular septal defect closures, TAVI in MVR and percutaneous
transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC).
The
department actively participates in valve multidisciplinary meetings,
peri-operative TOE and after care in patients with valve disease. There is
also a highly regarded congenital and adult congenital echo service that
supports PFO and ASD closures
Leeds
has a strong record of innovation and is involved in several multinational
clinical trials in trans-catheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) and
tricuspid valve replacement.
The
CMR department is led by Prof Plein a BSCMR accredited CMR laboratories and
performs over 2,500 clinical CMR scans covering all indications from
congenital to stress CMR. The department uses two state of the art Philips
MRI scanners (1.5 Ingenia and 3 Tesla Achieva) and a 3T Siemens scanner.
The
Cardiac CT service is led by Radiology with Cardiology participation and uses
a Siemens Force scanner performing over 1200 CT coronary angiograms and a
large number of gated scans for interventional planning of structural
interventions. CT images are analysed using a dedicated software
(3Mensio).
There
are active Teaching and Research links with the Leeds School of Medicine and
the University of Leeds, both well situated on adjacent sites. The CMR
research group has a world leading reputation for its clinical research
including large single and multi-centre imaging trials and currently employs
8 clinical fellows.
The
post is fixed term for 6 months starting as soon as possible, with options to
extend if mutually agreed.
Person Specification
Clinical Experience and Career Progression
Essential
- Should have completed a recognised training programme in Cardiology
- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in management and assessment of valvular heart disease.
- Experience of performing transoseophageal echo to support structural cardaic prodeures, including experience of mTEER, tTEER, valvuloplasty, TAVI in mitral, LAA occlusion device
Desirable
- Working towards accreditation in CT and cardiac MRI
Qualifications
Essential
- CCT or equivalent with elligibility to join specialist register
- MRCP or equivalent
- Must have TOE and TTE accreditation (EACVI or equivalent)
Eligibility, Fitness to practice, and Language Skills
Essential
- Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practice
- Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Is up to date and fit to practise safely
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues
Clinical, Academic, and Personal Skills
Essential
- Evidence of the ability to carry out medical research.
- Experience in training undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors.
- Well organised and skilled in good time management.
- Demonstrate ability to relate to and work within a team.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
Desirable
- Previous experience of supervising research by junior staff
Person Specification
Clinical Experience and Career Progression
Essential
- Should have completed a recognised training programme in Cardiology
- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in management and assessment of valvular heart disease.
- Experience of performing transoseophageal echo to support structural cardaic prodeures, including experience of mTEER, tTEER, valvuloplasty, TAVI in mitral, LAA occlusion device
Desirable
- Working towards accreditation in CT and cardiac MRI
Qualifications
Essential
- CCT or equivalent with elligibility to join specialist register
- MRCP or equivalent
- Must have TOE and TTE accreditation (EACVI or equivalent)
Eligibility, Fitness to practice, and Language Skills
Essential
- Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practice
- Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Is up to date and fit to practise safely
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues
Clinical, Academic, and Personal Skills
Essential
- Evidence of the ability to carry out medical research.
- Experience in training undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors.
- Well organised and skilled in good time management.
- Demonstrate ability to relate to and work within a team.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
Desirable
- Previous experience of supervising research by junior staff
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).
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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).
