Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- Trust Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (January 2025 for 6 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Basic Hours Only - no on call)
- Job ref
- 317-TD-24-267
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cardiology Specialty - FH
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £53,660 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Fellow in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Trust Doctor
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.Ìý
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. Ìý
This 6-month post would be suitable for a candidate who has a sound basis in cardiac electrophysiology and catheter ablation, and would like to further enhance their skills prior to application for a substantive Electrophysiologist post.Ìý
Post to commence January 2025 for 6 months.Ìý
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
This 6-month post is an opportunity to gain experience of advanced cardiac rhythm management in a high-volume UK centre including all aspects of interventional electrophysiology.Ìý It is aimed at candidates who have already undertaken a period of training in cardiac electrophysiology and catheter ablation, and would like to develop and expand their skills prior to application for a substantive Electrophysiologist post.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Moloy Das, Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist via email at: [email protected]
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý The successful appointee will work as part of the electrophysiology team.Ìý Typical duties per week will include 5-6 EP lab sessions, 2 arrhythmia clinics and time allocated for clinical administration, audit and research.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý There will be responsibility for the management of patients undergoing interventional EP procedures.Ìý
Administrative:
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Responsibility for recording data from lab patients in local databases, writing discharge summaries and communicating with referring Cardiologists and General Practitioners. Ìý
Research:
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Undertaking research projects within the field of catheter ablation with a view to presentation at national/international conferences and publications.Ìý
Other:
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Attendance and participation at the weekly EP MDT meeting, other educational meetings and the relevant quality assurance programme. Ìý
Flexibility:Ìý
In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend.Ìý As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice at the time of application.
- Satisfactory completion of Foundation and Internal Medicine Training or equivalent, General Cardiology training and a period of training in Cardiac Electrophysiology.
Desirable criteria
- Higher research degree in an EP-related topic.
- IBHRE or EHRA EP accreditation.
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of electrophysiology procedures, including complex ablation
- Proactive care of pre- and post-procedural patients.
- Insight into abilities and knowledge, and the ability to ask for help when required.
Desirable criteria
- First-operator experience of transseptal puncture and complex ablation procedures
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
- Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues.
- An understanding of Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria
- Proven management and administration ability.
- Understanding of management goals.
- Experience with audit
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior staff.
- Ability to teach clinical skills.
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to develop new approaches to teaching and learning.
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects.
- Understanding of research principles.
Desirable criteria
- Publications/abstracts in EP research.
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team.
- Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Alignment with the Trust’s Values.
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD.
- Time management skills.
- Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills.
- IT literate.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Scorfield
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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