Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (With a possibility to extend to 12 months dependent on candidate preference & service requirements)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-MED4885
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £70,425 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/07/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Senior Structural Interventional Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The RBHH Structural Interventional Team
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals are the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK. The transcatheter mitral and tricuspid structural heart program is one of the most established, and amongst the highest procedural volumes within the UK.
The Royal Brompton Hospital is the only MitraClip Centre of Excellence in the United Kingdom and is the largest volume MitraClip centre with over 500 MitraClips, and almost 1000 TEER procedures performed to date. There is a comprehensive range of transcatheter mitral and tricuspid interventional procedures offered by an experienced team which includes transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve replacements and Neochord.
The team undertook >160 transcatheter mitral and tricuspid procedures in 2024. The team have an active research and clinical trial portfolio, offering novel treatment options to a complex patient population; working alongside the TAVI structural program across both sites.
Main duties of the job
I. To participate and assist in the running of Structural Heart (Mitral/Tricuspid) clinical team in both Outpatient and inpatient clinical settings cross-site
II. Training and working under the supervision of structural interventional cardiologists including regular sessions in the catheterization laboratory, participating and contribute to Heart team meetings, attend specialist structural clinics for pre- and post-procedural patient assessment and selection
III. To undertake relevant clinical research and audit projects towards novel scientific reporting and clinical service improvement
Working for our organisation
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
King’s College Hospital is one of the largest and busiest in London, with a well-established national and international reputation for clinical excellence, innovation and achievement. The hospital provides a broad range of secondary services, including specialist emergency medicine (e.g. trauma, cardiac and stroke).
The Partnership brings together the world leaders in heart and lung care and research across Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (including Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals), King’s College Hospital and King’s College London. In leveraging the best from each organisation our goal is to deliver the best cardiovascular and respiratory outcomes for people, wherever they receive care, and to improve the health and wellbeing of populations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Training in expert diagnosis and management of adult patients with valvular heart disease
· Training in performance of structural cardiac interventions, specifically transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve procedures, and to develop proficiency as a primary operator
· Develop expertise in case selection, procedural judgment, and technical ability for structural cardiac interventions
· Demonstrate competency with pre‐procedure evaluation, timely and informative reporting of results and therapeutic recommendations
· Develop into an educator in the field and to serve as a valuable resource in their community
Detailed schedule
The proposed Structural Interventional fellowship will encompass high volume structural interventional exposure, training as a primary operator; focusing on Mitral & Tricuspid Intervention, with opportunities to undertake a broad base of other Structural Intervention as outlined in the Learning Objectives. The fellowship will be undertaken cross-site at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in line with the team’s clinical activities.
The appointed fellow will have general Cardiology on call and ward cover commitments as part of the Specialty Registrar rota.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- MRCP completed or equivalent
- Full GMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate research
- On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive experience in Cardiology
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Competent in general medical procedures
- Good communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit
Research
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical research
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience in teaching echocardiography
- Experience in postgraduate teaching
Management
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
Desirable criteria
- Management training
- Evidence of participation in the development of clinical services
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
- Ee Ling Heng
- Job title
- Consultant Cardiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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