Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiac Surgery
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (.)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 356-26-7911805
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Castle Hill Hospital
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Cardiac Surgeon - Mitral Valve
Consultant
Job overview
This is a locum NHS consultant cardiac surgeon appointment for 6 months based at Castle Hill Hospital, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The contract length can be extended by mutual consent.
The post-holder will contribute to the delivery of high-quality adult cardiac surgery across elective and emergency practice within a regional cardiac surgical service. The successful applicant will have recognised subspecialty expertise in mitral valve surgery. Experience in complex mitral valve repair and minimally invasive mitral techniques, complementing and strengthening the Trust’s developing mitral valve programme, is desirable.
Main duties of the job
The appointment supports service sustainability, safe emergency cover, and succession planning, while maintaining high standards of clinical outcomes, training, governance, and multidisciplinary working, in line with Royal College of Surgeons (England) consultant appointment guidance.
The post-holder will work as part of a consultant cardiac surgery team delivering elective and emergency care for the Humber and wider regional population, participate fully in the surgeon-of-the-week care model, and contribute to service development, education, audit, and quality improvement.
Working for our organisation
Hull University Teaching Hospitals is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites, are Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLaG.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person specification
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
- • Ability to contribute to the efficient running of the unit
- • Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- • Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- • Evidence of participation in effective audit
- • Evidence of participation in effective quality improvement.
- • Evidence of participation in meaningful service improvement
- • Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
- • Understanding of clinical governance and patient safety principles
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- • Experience of leading audit or service improvement projects
- • Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- • Original peer-reviewed research publications
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- • Demonstrated competence in adult cardiac surgery to consultant level.
- • Experience of emergency cardiac surgery
- • Sound clinical judgement and ability to make decisions under pressure.
- • Evidence of safe, effective independent practice appropriate to career stage
- • Validated operative logbook
- • Demonstrated competence compatible with a subspecialist mitral surgeon
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • MBBS or equivalent qualification
- • Completion of an approved cardiothoracic surgery training programme
- • FRCS (Cardiothoracic Surgery) or equivalent
- • Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in Cardiothoracic Surgery, or within six months of CCT at interview
- • Valid ALS certificate
- • Valid ATLS certificate
Desirable criteria
- • Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
- • Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Full Registration with the GMC
- • Entry on the Specialist Register via, - Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) / proposed CCT within 6 months of interview - CESR/ Portfolio pathway, or alternate routes to Specialist Registration – applicant must be in Specialist register at the time of interview
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- • Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
- • Integrity, probity, and commitment to professional standards
- • Insight into personal limitations and willingness to seek advice
- • Commitment to equality, diversity, and a respectful working environment.
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
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
- Dr David Zicho
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 875875
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