Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: MT04
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (October 2025 until August 2026)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 302-25-7496386MHR-M
- Employer
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
- Town
- Wigan
- Salary
- £65,048 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 10:00
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiology (ST3-5)
NHS Medical & Dental: MT04
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
The post holder will be based at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan. The junior medical staff on the wards are responsible for the care of Cardiology patients under supervision of the specialty doctors and consultants in Cardiology.
This role is advertised as fixed term contract October 2025 until August 2026.
The role will require you to work across all areas in the Trust which includes those that are designated as positive, asymptomatic and negative COVID wards.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the job overview, main responsibilities and attached job description for further details.
Working for our organisation
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Review referrals to the service daily in liaison with Consultants.
- Assist in clinics as necessary, seeing both new and follow-up patients.
- Attendance at multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Ward rounds.
- Continuing professional development.
- Providing support during periods of absence of Consultants.
- Maintain good communication with all consultants and the multidisciplinary team.
- Work with FY1 and FY2 in the treatment of patients admitted, undertake and supervise medical procedures as requested.
- Ensure good communication with GP’s and other agencies such as Palliative Care services.
- Participation in teaching and training activities for medical and other clinical staff.
- Teaching of junior medical staff, medical students and nurses will be expected.
- The Trust encourages proposals for research projects.
Any other duties appropriate to the grade. The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give a broad flavour of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the post holder.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Commitment to CPD.
Job Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to work as an effective member of a team.
- Evidence of personal initiative and organisational abilities.
- Ability to keep good clinical records.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to carry out ALS and defibrillation to a standard that accords with UK Resus Council guidelines.
- Experience at SHO level (or equivalent) in General and / or Respiratory Medicine.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Medical Qualification – MB BS or equivalent
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- ALS or equivalent
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
- Daniel Williams-Whitehouse
- Job title
- HR Medicine Recruitment Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07786521831
- Additional information
Strictly no agencies to contact
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- [email protected]
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