Trust LED ST3+ - Senior Interventional Fellow

Overview

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. We provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Interventional Fellow Activities

• Attendance at interventional catheter lab 6 sessions per week. Further additional sessions may be allocated depending on the timetable.
• Provision of ward round for PCI patients (interventional ward round).
• Attendance at regular MDT and educational weekly meeting.
• Dictation of discharge and procedural letters as required.
• Participate in departmental interventional research, audits, and educational programmes, present at national and international conferences, and publish in peer-reviewed journals.
• Providing 1-2 TAVI clinics per month.

There will be an opportunity to join ACS PCI weekend lists alongside the interventional consultant. This is an optional commitment and will provide a valuable training opportunity.

Main Duties and Associated Duties

1. Main Duties and Programmed Activities
   • Except in emergencies or where otherwise agreed with your clinical manager, you are responsible for fulfilling the duties and responsibilities and undertaking the programmed activities set out in your new Job Plan, as reviewed annually and in line with the provisions below.
2. Associated duties
   • You are responsible for the associated duties set out in schedule 2 of the Terms and Conditions. These include amongst other things a requirement to:
     • Collaborate with colleagues in primary and secondary care to implement protocols for the management of patients.
     • Keep up to date with the developments in the specialty. It is expected that active consideration will be given to existing technologies in terms of cost effectiveness. In addition, the use of the new techniques where they can be justified clinically will be encouraged. Conforming to \”state of the art\” advances will ultimately depend on other priorities within the total unit.
     • Contribute to post-graduate and continuing medical education. The Trust supports the requirement of CME/CDP as laid down by the Royal College of Physicians and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

This is a full-time post in interventional cardiology for 2 years subject to satisfactory performance assessed at 6 monthly intervals. There is no on-call commitment for the general cardiology rota. This post is ideally suited to a senior trainee in interventional cardiology (as part of an out of programme experience) or a candidate with post CCT/CESR in cardiology who wishes to consolidate their knowledge and increase their experience in PCI before taking up a consultant post. Overseas candidates are also welcomed to apply for this post provided they have the required qualifications. The appointee will be expected to have good experience in the performance of modern cardiac interventional procedures, as well as extensive experience of basic cardiac catheterisation. The successful candidate will be expected to perform 350-450 PCI cases as first operator per year and will receive intensive training in all aspects of interventional cardiac intervention including complex PCI (unprotected LM, bifurcation techniques), rotational-atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy, intracoronary imaging, zero contrast/ ultra-low contrast PCI, intra-coronary physiology and microvascular assessment, and CTO.

About the Trust

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

Pre-employment Checks and Other Information

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. You may be required to repay the cost on appointment via salary deduction. The level of check required depends on the role offered. Currently the charges are: Basic £25.50, Standard £25.50 and Enhanced £53.50.

You are encouraged, where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £16. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures. Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check. DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed. The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here. Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this. Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier. In line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking. The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.