Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiology

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

Main area Cardiology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow Contract Fixed term: 12 months Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job ref 361-R2R-2287

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £38,619 - £57,570 Salary period Yearly Closing 27/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 13/06/2024

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

Join our team for a fixed 12-month term starting immediately. Our Trust caters to a local population of 600,000 and boasts round-the-clock primary PCI services. This opportunity is ideal for an ambitious physician with a keen interest in cardiology, aiming for advancement at registrar level. Successful candidates will play a pivotal role in managing cardiology services at Lister Hospital, overseeing both in-patient and out-patient care for patients with diverse cardiac conditions. Comprehensive training in both invasive and non-invasive cardiology is provided, along with active involvement in the cardiology registrar on-call schedule. Experienced individuals may pursue specialized training in intervention (PCI and PPCI) or Advanced Imaging (CMR, Stress Echo, Cardiac CT).

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be expected to perform clinical duties at registrar level, assisting in the running of cardiology services within the Lister Hospital, although from time to time the post holder will be required to undertake work at the QEII site or Hertford County Hospital. The clinical duties will involve all aspects of clinical management of cardiac patients, including cardiology out-patient and in-patient care, non-invasive cardiac investigations and work in the cath lab. There will be no commitment to general medicine.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post will provide cardiology input to co-ordinate and deliver inpatient and out-patient cardiology service within the Trust. The post holder will be predominantly based at the Lister Hospital. The post holder will run cardiology out-patient clinics under the supervision of one of the cardiology consultants. In addition, he/she will be required to contribute towards a registrar delivered ED returners clinic running weekday afternoons, and supervise and/or assist with clinics run by cardiac specialist nurses, such as Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic, Post-MI Clinic and Post-Angioplasty Clinic. The post holder will actively participate in providing invasive and non-invasive cardiac service. The post holder will participate in the day-to-day running of the cardiology in-patient service, in conjunction with the SpR and FY1 and FY2 doctors. The post holder will participate in the full shift cardiology registrar on call rota on a 1:10 basis as above.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

• Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council
• College Membership (MRCP) or qualification of an equivalent level

Previous Experience

• Experience of at least 18 months hospital service at core level or higher grade, including at least 6 months in Cardiology
• Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the specialty
• Experience in echocardiography with BSE or equivalent accreditation
• NHS experience

Knowledge

• Experience of audit

Fitness to Practice

• Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs.
• Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Experience in organising educational activities.

Other Requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our trust values every day

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing #####

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.