Job summary
- Main area
- cardiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 421-MS-1069K
- Employer
- Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harrogate and District Foundation Trust
- Town
- Harrogate
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/05/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Consultant in Cardiology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area as well as across North Yorkshire and Leeds. We also provide children’s services in the North East in County Durham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Gateshead and Sunderland.
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is one of only two trusts in Yorkshire and Humber to be awarded HSJ’s Top 100 Best Places to Work. We believe that You Matter Most, and this is reflected in what we value: Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. So if you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.
Job overview
This is a General Cardiology Consultant post with an option to deliver specialist activity. There will be no commitment to General Internal Medicine. A specialist interest would be welcomed. Support would be given to undertaking PA’s at other centres to maintain/develop specialist interests.
This is an exciting time to join the Cardiology Department at HDFT. We are a highly skilled and innovative multi-disciplinary team and this appointment will ensure that we can continue to deliver high quality patient care as well as help drive forward service developments. Our friendly, well-established team consists of Consultants, Specialist nurses, Cardiac rehab nurses, Speciality Doctor, Cardio/Respiratory Physiologists, Heart Failure Nurses and a Lead Cardiology Nurse. We have a new Philips cath lab undertaking diagnostic angiography and pacemaker implantation. Future planning within Imaging Services includes Cardiac CT which will be developed over the next 2-3 years.
There are excellent opportunities for the post holder to develop new or existing services according to their clinical interests.
Flexible/ Part time working will be considered with opportunities (by negotiation) to undertake sessions at other organisations to maintain or develop skills.
Main duties of the job
- Together with the other consultant cardiologist you will provide an inpatient and outpatient Cardiology service. This includes all aspects of non-elective and outpatient treatment and related management duties
- To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for Cardiology services
- To support service development within the cardiology service
Working for our organisation
We are well positioned within the wider local cardiology network and work closely with Leeds, South Tees and Mid York’s We also have regular visiting consultants from Leeds teaching hospitals for satellite arrhythmia clinics.
Our patients have access to a recently redeveloped and extended cardio respiratory department, new clinic rooms and new equipment including state of the art echo equipment with 3-D and strain imaging capability. In January 2021 a new Philips Cath lab was commissioned delivering diagnostic angiography and Brady pacemaker implantation.
Please watch our video about the department https://youtu.be/zyBsmwNo5p4
HDFT is committed to supporting its staff with their health and wellbeing. Staff can access a range of online and telephone support networks, wellbeing lounges and have Trust appointed Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Fairness Champions, the Chaplaincy, Staff Networks and Staff Governors
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed information on the responsibilities of this post can be found in the attached job description.
Further enquiries can be made to Emma Edgar, Clinical Director, [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register or within six months of receipt of CCT at the time of interview
- BSE accreditation (if applying as echo specialist or equivalent higher qualification in echocardiography)
- ALS
Desirable criteria
- Completed Fellowship Programme
- BSCI/SCCT level 2/3 accreditation in CT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to meet the demands of the proposed job plan
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Edgar
- Job title
- Clinical Director/Clinical Lead Nurse Cardiology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01423 555719
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