Clinical Fellow in Interventional Cardiology (ST3+ equivalent)

Main duties of the job

This post is an opportunity to gain experience in interventional cardiology in a high volume UK centre including primary PCI service. This post would be suitable for a candidate post-CCT in cardiology, or with equivalent experience, aiming for appointment as a consultant specialising in interventional cardiology.

The appointee would gain a large volume of practical experience in percutaneous coronary intervention including PPCI, IVUS, rotational atherectomy, pressure wire assessment, laser catheters, percutaneous treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and transcutaneous aortic and mitral valves intervention.

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.

Clinical: Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful appointee will work with all the interventional consultants. Duties will include multiple weekly lab sessions working alongside consultant staff. There will be responsibility for the management of patients undergoing interventional cardiology procedures. There will be occasional out-patient commitment.

Responsibilities will include:

• Recording the procedural report and completion of BCIS and MINAP data collection after each case
• Writing discharge summaries
• Communication with General Practitioners

Administrative: Responsibility for recording the procedural report and completion of BCIS and MINAP data collection after each case, writing discharge summaries, communication with General Practitioners will be necessary.

Other: Attendance and participation at the weekly cardiothoracic MDT, educational meeting and PCI quality assurance programme.

Emergency And On-call Responsibilities

The Interventional Fellow will not be required to participate in the StRs out-of-hours rota. Attendance at out-of-hours PCI for further experience in emergency revascularisation will be offered.

Education And Training

A named educational supervisor (Professor M Egred) will discuss the needs of the Fellow at the start of the job and review them regularly. The will be required to undertake recruitment into the departmental research studies and the administrative activities are opportunities for Audit, and the fellows will also be encouraged to develop an interest in the research activities of the department.

The appointee will be involved as a sub-investigator for on-going clinical studies in the department.

Accountability

The Clinical Fellows are accountable in their clinical duties to the consultants whose patients they are managing in the first instance, to the Clinical Director of cardiothoracic services and ultimately to the Medical Director of the Trust.

Flexibility

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. 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.