Job summary
- Main area
- Cardioloogy
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-7126525-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 1 in 12 on call
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Cardiology- Interest in Inherited Cardiac Conditions
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in Inherited Cardiac Conditions (ICC) on a full-time basis, (10 PAs). The individual should have expertise in inherited cardiac conditions and cardiac sarcoidosis with relevant specialist higher training.
The applicant should be both enthusiastic and flexible to meet the many needs of the department. Good organisational skills are important, as is the ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams whilst upholding the Trust’s values. Experience and interest in genetics, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, device implantation and imaging are actively welcomed and encouraged. The appointee will run outpatient clinics, review inpatients, contribute to multi-disciplinary team working and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings. The appointee will provide innovation and leadership in the further development of the inherited cardiac conditions service.
Main duties of the job
The postholder’s duties will be primarily at John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.
Clinical
Please see job plan for more information. This post is part of the ICC service at Oxford University Hospitals and will working alongside other consultants and members of the multidisciplinary team. The key aim is for the candidate to participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care. They will be required to contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development. The post holder with support the clinical geneticists and advanced nurse specialists perform their clinical duties
Working for our organisation
OUHFT is a large tertiary cardiac centre serving a population of 2.5 million
The successful applicant will join the existing Consultant colleagues who currently provide comprehensive secondary and tertiary services. The NHS department works closely with the University Department of Cardiovascular Medicine with rotation of clinical lecturers between the two departments and Consultants working across both departments. Academic interests include myocardial hypertrophy, vascular biology and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
Cardiology provides a local service to Oxfordshire and surrounding counties, as the local district general hospital, as well as offering a tertiary service for interventional cardiology. Good relations with colleagues in neighbouring district general hospitals ensures a flow of referrals both elective and emergency.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
The post-holder’s duties will be delivered across both acute hospital sites, but it is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations. The post-holder will provide consultant physician services for the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, including care of acute admissions, care of outpatients, leading ward rounds and other professional activities relating to Acute General Medicine and Cardiology. An indicative job plan is attached.
Person specification
Professional qualifications
Essential criteria
- Medical degree and eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practice. MRCP
- On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT.
- NB. Non-UK trained doctors must be on the GMC Specialist Register in Cardiology by date of interview
- Fully trained in inherited cardiac conditions and inflammatory heart disease.
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree
- Sub-speciality interest in imaging or devices.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience in General Cardiology, ICC and inflammatory heart disease.
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Further expertise in imaging (echo, CT, CMR), devices or specific areas for ICC.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Ability to contribute to long-term development and success of the service
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Education qualification
- Peer reviewed publications Research grants
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
- Elizabeth Orchard
- Job title
- Clinical Lead of the Specialist Cardiology CSU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Julian Ormerod, Clinical Lead for the Inherited Cardiac Conditions Service (julian.ormerodouh.nhs.uk) or Professor Hugh Watkins, Head of Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford ([email protected]).
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