Consultant Physician in Cardiology (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant) - Cardiology - Homerton H[...]

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Hours Full time – 10 sessions per week (JD “Awaiting approval from Royal College of Physicians”.)

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Site Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Town London

Salary £109,725 – £145,478 per annum and pro rata plus 2162 London weighting

Salary period Yearly

Closing 20/07/2025 12:00

Interview date 20/08/2025

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Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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;

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

Working for our organisation

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).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC registration
• Entry on to the GMC register (or within 6 months)
• MRCP or equivalent
• Higher Degree (MSc, MD or PhD

Clinical Skills

• Excellent clinical skills
• Broad clinical experience in Cardiology with evidence of appropriately maintained clinical skills

Management Skills

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
• An understanding of clinical governance
• Ability to run a consultant service and participate in management process
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership/project management
• Evidence of having implemented change
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies

Teaching and Training

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical/technical/practical skills
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education

Clinical Governance

• Evidence of contribution to effective audit and clinical risk management

Communication

• Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English
• IT Skills and computer literacy

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the trust values
• An awareness of own strengths and weaknesses coupled with an ability to deploy them effectively
• Professional attitude towards work, good record of attendance
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to it\’s trust and the workforce
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required
• Ability to practie independently in Cardiology to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of Cardiac related problems
• Ability to practice and work as part of a multidisciplinary team

Leadership and Professionalism

• Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and respond appropriately to service need
• Evidence of cross craft working and interdisciplinary working which goes beyond usual team working
• Familiar with current structure of the health service and conversant with recent initiative changes

Patient focused skills

• Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience, social skills appropriate to different types of client

Interpersonal skills

• Good interpersonal skills coupled with an ability to co-operate, persuade, negotiate within a senior clinical and management team

G eneral Guidance for Applicants

Please ensure that you read the \”Guidance Notes On Submitting An Application\” under \”Additional Documentation\” before completing your application.

Please note: we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

We are committed to achieving equality and inclusion at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and we respect and value the diversity and differences of our patients and our people, ensuring everyone is enabled to thrive, feels a sense of belonging, and is able to be their authentic self. We offer a range of flexible working options that enable you to balance your work and personal life, including part-time, compressed hours, remote working and job-shares.

If you are interested in joining our team, please let us know your preferred working pattern in your application, and we will consider all requests for flexible working and try to accommodate them wherever possible.

Please note that secondment arrangements will be considered for any fixed term positions, with the agreement of the existing line manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and have been approved as a Disability Confident Employer.

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.

Name Jessica Preston

Job title Service Manager

Email address

Telephone number 0208 510 5555

Additional information

Dr Arvinder Kurbaan, Clinical Lead -0208 510 5084

Dr Carlo Prina, Associate Medical Director – 0208 510 5555

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