Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is appointing a Consultant Physician in Cardiology. This is a replacement post to fill an existing vacancy in order to meet the demand of the increasing Cardiology related care.
As part of our ongoing work to expand the Cardiology service at Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust, we are looking to recruit a GMC registered Consultant Cardiology Physician who holds an MRCP or equivalent qualification. Clinical duties will include running outpatient clinics, cardiology ward provision, responsibilities for providing expert supervision in heart failure and running specialist stress echocardiogram lists.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified physicians for the post of Consultant Cardiologist with a view to commence in the Department of Cardiology based at Homerton Hospital.
The post holder will have the following core responsibilities;
2 outpatient clinics
0.5 paper clinic
2.25 sessions for specialist interest – Cardiology Diagnostics – including Echo MDT
1 Heart Failure session including MDT and supervision
1.5 Ward related sessions
Departmental & Regional Clinical meetings
The trust has an established outpatient service catering for a range of Cardiology conditions and including electrophysiology and heart failure services. We have set up a CTCA service to run within the Radiology unit with one consultant currently delivering 2 sessions per week, a suggested part of this post will be to mirror this with a further 2 sessions per week. Patients requiring interventional Cardiology are supported through referral to Barts Health which provides a catheter lab service and delivers heart surgery, Cardiac MRI and overflow for CT. All Cardiology outpatient clinics are delivered onsite at the Homerton Healthcare main site.
The Cardiology Ward at Homerton Hospital consists of 20 beds. The post holder will have one session dedicated to an inpatient ward round to provide expert Cardiology advice. The Cardiology ward is staffed with one specialist registrar (NE London trainee), one clinical fellow (ST3+) and 4 junior posts (FY1-2 and CMT 1).

THE ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE POST ARE:

To work collaboratively and pro-actively with all appropriate clinical colleagues within the trust in developing and implementing an acceptable service model reflective of best practice
To forge effective relationships with clinical colleagues outside the trust so as to improve the coherence and integration of patient pathways
To share responsibility with colleagues for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients
To have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care
To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners and all other external agencies
To maintain and promote team and multi-disciplinary working within all relevant services at all times
To lead and co-ordinate the dedicated multi-disciplinary team appointment to support the service models so as to achieve effective discharge management
To deliver multi-disciplinary outpatient clinics so as to provide specialist support
To participate fully in the management of the Cardiology department and liaise closely with the Clinical Lead, Service Manager and Divisional Operations Director
To participate fully in corporate and singular responsibility for the management of junior medical staff
Reviewing inpatient provision and identifying opportunities for advancements including interaction with ambulatory care
JD Awaiting approval from Royal College of Physicians

Please refer the Job description for details