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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (10 PA's)
Job ref
391-RFL-7742201
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Barnet Hospital
Town
Barnet
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 Per annum, plus £2,162 London Weighting per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/02/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Consultant Cardiologist Advanced imaging/Echocardiography

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Click here to view our video Welcome to the Royal Free


 

Job overview

This is a replacement post to deliver complex echocardiography and general cardiology services to the Royal Free, London NHS Foundation Trust. The post is based predominantly at the Barnet Hospital site. 

The post holder will contribute to a 1 in 9 general cardiology 7/7 ‘Consultant of the week’ on call model at Barnet, equating to 6 weeks and 7 weekends per year. At weekends, cover is only expected until lunchtime. If you work bank holidays then an additional leave day will be given in lieu. This job a substantive post.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Responsibilities

To provide overall care for patients referred to and cared for by the cardiology services including inpatient, outpatient and echo diagnostic services at Barnet site, to support the development of a robust MDT oversight regime, to support the nursing and administration teams in delivering safe care and to support research in this field.

It is specifically anticipated that with their colleagues the post holder will provide the following services:
 Provide support to the echo department at Barnet Hospital (supervise lists, provide 
support and training, help develop service)
 Participate in advanced cardiac imaging (transthoracic echo, stress echo and TOE) 
 Participate in weekly cardiac imaging MDT (cross site)
 Contribute to the general cardiology at the Barnet site as ‘Consultant of The Week’ providing daily CCU and cardiology routine and post-take ward rounds and providing a consult service for the acute medical take. Time will be given in lieu for working bank holidays
 Outpatient clinical care (average clinic template of 5 new patients and 4-5 follow up appointments with a mix of face-to-face and virtual appointment types)
 Support robust audit programme
 Support the department undergraduate teaching and educational supervision

The job plan will include:

  • Stress Echo and TOE
  • Out-patient clinics
  • Ward rounds.
  • Local echo lead at Barnet
  • Local teaching and MDT meetings
  • develop advanced imaging

 There is no general medical component to this post.

Working for our organisation

Royal Free World Class Values

The post holder will provide World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike so that everyone at the Royal Free can feel:
The post holder is expected to promote a World Class Care culture and work in a way that is patient-centred, involves service users, responds positively to feedback from user groups and promotes teamwork across services.
 

About us

The Royal Free Hospital was founded in 1828 to provide free healthcare to those who could not afford medical treatment. The title ‘Royal’ was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 in recognition of the hospital’s work with cholera victims. For many years, Royal Free Hospital was the only hospital in London to offer medical services to women. This began a close association with the London School of Medicine for Women, later renamed the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. Royal Free Hospital moved to its present site in the mid-1970s bringing together the old Royal Free Hospital in Gray’s Inn Road with the Lawn Road, New End and Hampstead General Hospitals. In 1991 the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust became one of the first NHS trusts established under the provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. On 1 April 2012 the trust was authorised as a foundation trust, under the name Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Services and Facilities

The Royal Free Heart Centre provides a comprehensive range of general and specialist cardiology services, serving both a secondary and tertiary role for patients in the North Central London sector. The cardiology unit comprises a seven bedded Coronary Care Unit and a designated cardiology ward (twenty beds) plus any inpatients on other wards being looked after by the consultants concerned. There is a dedicated diagnostic department providing a full range of non-invasive investigations, two new cardiac catheter laboratories and a day case coronary interventional unit (10 beds). The department receives elective and non-elective referrals from the locality and from district general hospitals in the North Central Sector. On 1st July 2014 the Royal free acquired Barnet & Chase Farm hospitals. The department is now fully integrated across the sites with cross site working.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Sub-specialty expertise in echocardiography, Independent operator in advanced echocardiography (TOE and stress echo)
Desirable criteria
  • Active participation in research
  • Experience in service transformation & clinical leadership

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent
  • British Society of Echocardiography or equivalent accreditation
  • Full registration with GMC Specialist Register with complete CCT / CESR registration
Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent)
  • Experience of working in UK healthcare

Skills and aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Motivated, flexible, enthusiastic

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Niket Patel
Job title
Cardiology Clinical Service Lead.
Email address
[email protected]
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