Job summary
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Cardiologist with a special interest in Echocardiography to join our team, which works across Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wythenshawe Hospital. The echo team has 5 existing echo consultants, 2 consultant echo physiologists, several BSE accredited band 8 and band 7 sonographers who perform all advanced modalities of echo including TOE, Stress, ACHD and structural intervention studies. 31,000 TTE scans are performed per annum plus 2000 stresses and 400 TOEs. The team also supervise the valve, endocarditis and rapid access chest pain services. The consultants are quorate to many cardiac and surgical MDTs and the Trust is commissioned for TAVI, TEER and PFO closures. The echo team work closely with cross-sectional imaging teams, cardiac surgeons, transplant and VAD surgeons, structural interventional teams, ICC teams, the Liverpool ACHD team, cardiac anaesthetists and general intensivists. The wider cardiology department includes 50 sub-speciality cardiologists and 15 cardiac and transplant surgeons. Echo consultants are integral to most cardiac pathways and this is a great opportunity to work within the largest Trust in the country and one of the largest echo teams!
Main duties of the job
Day to day duties will include supervising and reporting stress and TOE lists, supporting specialist nurses running valve clinic and rapid access chest pain clinics, supervising and training junior doctors, colleagues, physiologists and specialist nurses. There will be one OPD clinic and one echo review meeting per week. Furthermore, the post-holder will be expected to participate in the subspecialty MDTs (e.g. mitral, TAVI, coronary, HOCM and endocarditis), support interventional and EP colleagues in the catheter lab with TOEs, support anaesthetic and surgical colleagues in cardiac theatres and critical care and provide governance input to our satellite echo services at Christie Hospital and GP practices. CT or CMR reporting sessions could also be considered if desired.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Person Specification
Essential
- MBChB or equivalent
- MRCP or equivalent
- On Specialist Register for Cardiology or within 6 months of CCT at interview
- Broad training in general cardiology and extensive training in echocardiography / cardiac imaging
- Competence in complex echocardiographic techniques
- BSE TTE accreditation
- Experience in undertaking audit
- Research and evidence base to practice
- Commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / procedural skills
- Ability to integrate with multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of management training
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable
- Additional Higher Degree (eg. MD, PhD)
- Evidence of research and service development in echocardiography
- Evidence of high volume complex echocardiographic practice/ dedicated fellowship
- BSE TOE / stress echocardiography accreditation
- Publication of audit /service improvement projects - locally and nationally
- Publications relevant to post
- Experience of organising teaching/ courses
- Participation in clinical skills teaching programmes
- Evidence of leading a team
- Leadership / professional development course
- Professional development course
Person Specification
Person Specification
Essential
- MBChB or equivalent
- MRCP or equivalent
- On Specialist Register for Cardiology or within 6 months of CCT at interview
- Broad training in general cardiology and extensive training in echocardiography / cardiac imaging
- Competence in complex echocardiographic techniques
- BSE TTE accreditation
- Experience in undertaking audit
- Research and evidence base to practice
- Commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / procedural skills
- Ability to integrate with multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of management training
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable
- Additional Higher Degree (eg. MD, PhD)
- Evidence of research and service development in echocardiography
- Evidence of high volume complex echocardiographic practice/ dedicated fellowship
- BSE TOE / stress echocardiography accreditation
- Publication of audit /service improvement projects - locally and nationally
- Publications relevant to post
- Experience of organising teaching/ courses
- Participation in clinical skills teaching programmes
- Evidence of leading a team
- Leadership / professional development course
- Professional development course
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).
