Job overview

The successful candidate will help provide and develop the Cardiac Device Service and multidisciplinary Heart Failure Service to the local Fylde Coast and regional population of Lancashire and South Cumbria. This is a new post to join a team of 4 device Consultants (and 1 electrophysiologist that contributes to the device service).  Approximately 800 device procedures, and 70 extraction procedures are performed annually.  The post holder will have experience in implantation and follow up of pacemakers, resynchronisation devices, and ICDs.  Experience, or a willingness to develop skills, in extraction, leadless pacing and subcutaneous defibrillators is necessary. The post holder will have experience in the delivery and direction of hospital and  community based Heart Failure Management.

The cardiology department delivers a local Secondary and regional tertiary cardiology service, and the successful candidate will join the existing 22 consultant cardiologists in helping deliver a first class local and regional service. The post holder will also be expected to deliver general cardiology as consultant of the week on a rotational basis as well as weekend cover as part of a seven-day consultant led service.

Main duties of the job

Job plans will be formally reviewed within the first 6 months after appointment and agreed according to evidence from actual activity. All consultants will be allocated 1.5 core SPA per week for professional development (CPD), Job Planning, Appraisal, Mandatory Training, attendance at regular team meetings which will have a clinical governance aspect and participating in Audit. Core SPA time will generally be undertaken within the Trust. Any variation from this principle must be discussed, agreed and made clear within the Consultant Job plan. The core SPA time will allow the post holder to ensure appropriate CPD to allow revalidation, to which the trust will be fully supportive.

Additional SPA time will be made available to consultants on the basis of evidenced need. Such allocation will be agreed and subsequently reviewed by the Consultant and their Head of Department during the Job Plan review session. Additional (non- core) SPA time will be undertaken within the Trust or at other agreed NHS sites or academic institutions during the normal working day.

Indicative job plan will comprise Device lab sessions, Outpatient clinics, Ward Rounds, Heart Failure ACP supervision, Heart Failure Virtual Ward/MDT supervision, on-call duties, Consultant of the Week duties and Patient Administration

Working for our organisation

The Trust's mission is "Together We Care" which encompasses the strategic vision for operating as a high performing organisation within an Integrated Care System (ICS), which provides quality, safe and effective care. This will be achieved in a financially sustainable way through our values-driven, skilled and motivated workforce:

·         People-centred - Serving people is the focus of everything we do.

·         Positive - having a "can do" response whatever the situation.

·         Compassion - always demonstrating we care.

·         Excellence - continually striving to provide the best care possible.

Our Values are drivers for the behaviours that all our staff strive to demonstrate.

The values and behaviours have been and continue to be embedded and communicated across the organisation via a number of initiatives - including our recruitment processes, corporate induction, team briefings, meetings, appraisals and our annual awards ceremony.