Locum Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist (Heart Failure & Transplant) in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Locum Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist (Heart Failure & Transplant)

The closing date is 03 November 2026

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee in Paediatric Cardiology and shown a commitment to advanced heart failure (including ventricular assist devices) and transplant during their training and worked units delivering this subspecialty. The candidate will be able to run a busy general paediatric cardiology on call as well as transplant on call. The candidate will demonstrate an ability to assess children with end stage heart failure from all causes for high-risk conventional surgery, mechanical support and cardiac transplant. The candidate will be keen to be integrated into all aspects of the department and show enthusiasm to develop the advanced heart failure management service in children. It is envisaged that the role will include a commitment to working with other paediatric cardiac centres, consolidating referral pathways, and provision of virtual and face to face clinics with those centres.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

To work with the current team of consultants to provide tertiary cardiac care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the Northern region and patients referred from other regions for ongoing management.

To work within the paediatric heart failure / transplant team to provide and develop this service for regional/ supra regional patients referred for advanced heart failure management.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:

David Crossland on +44 0191 2137318, or via email at david.crossland@nhs.net(Clinical Director), or Zdenka Reinhardt on +44 0191 2137146, or via email at zdenka.reinhardt1@nhs.net(Transplant Lead) Barbara Cardoso on +44 0191 2137146, or via email at b.cardoso2@nhs.net(Paediatric heart failure and transplant cardiologist)

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on Careers at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

Participating in an on-call rota (approximately 1-in-8) for paediatric patients referred to the unit. The individual will be expected to work effectively in a team and work closely with the intensive care specialists, anaesthetists, cardiac surgeons and cardiology colleagues.

Participating in a heart transplant on call rota (1-in-3) providing advice about children who have undergone heart transplant.

To provide in-patient and out-patient opinions for children with congenital and acquired heart disease across the Trust and to colleagues across the network and for referrals across the UK.

To provide continuing care of children with heart problems on an in-patient or out-patient basis.

To provide opinions and care for children with heart failure from all causes referred to the unit. This will include inpatient and outpatient duties as well as contribution to the surgical MDT.

Develop the paediatric advanced heart failure service in particular liaison with other level one centres

Contributing to the clinical governance meeting and audit of all areas of childrens cardiac care.

Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College.

Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.

Administrative:

Assist the Directorate Manager and Clinical Director in the timely investigation of complaints working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy.

Undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of his or her patients and in relation to the running of the congenital heart disease department. In co-operation with the Heads of Department, Specialty Manager and Clinical Director. The appointee is entitled to become a member of the Medical Staff Committee of the hospital.

To undertake general administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.

Become involved with the financial management of the cardiology budget - at all times looking to ensure the delivery of high quality care to agreed standards, but at the same time reviewing working practices to provide the most efficient use of resources.

Research:

The Trust and department welcome and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided and there is an active research programme within the department including academic congenital disease consultant appointment.

The candidate will help facilitate and support research projects going on within the department.

The candidate will be supported in developing their own research profiles either as part of ongoing studies or development of new projects.

Teaching:

Participate in the teaching of undergraduates and the post graduate cardiology trainees.

There will be an opportunity within this post to develop and lead the middle grade training program.

Participate in the teaching and training of any other health care professionals within the Directorate.

To participate in supra regional teaching and education focused on advanced heart failure and transplant.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC Registration.
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• Evidence of appropriate training in advanced heart failure in children
• Higher Degree.
• Special skills training in the specialty.
• Experience in a unit delivering advanced heart failure management.

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of experience in the specialty.
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.

Management and Administration Experience

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.
• 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

• 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.

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature.
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit.
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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