Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. 

We are seeking to appoint a Consultant Cardiologist with a subspeciality interest in echocardiography, and with experience in adult congenital heart disease to provide complex echocardiography services in the Trust. The successful applicant will perform on average 2 complex echo lists per week covering a range of procedures (TOE, pharmacological and exercise stress echo and contrast echo). The appointee will be expected to contribute to TOE provision for structural intervention procedures and to provide imaging support to the complex valve MDT meetings. There are currently two valve related MDTs per week each of one hour duration with additional bi-monthly regional valve interventional structural planning meetings.

There will be a commitment for 1:12 basis for acute cardiology, with no overnight cover. 

Support for complex echo and adult congenital heart disease is an essential requirement of this post. 

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

Strengthen the Cardiac imaging department and the provision of specialist ACHD echocardiography.

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.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:  Dr Tim Irvine (0191 223 1459 option 3) or Dr Alexandra Thompson (0191 282 0168), Consultant Cardiologists with subspecialty interest in echocardiography, Dr David Crossland (0191 213 7484) and Dr Kristian Bailey (0191 282 0168), Clinical Director Cardiology and Respiratory.

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.