A 12-month locum consultant post in the paediatric heart failure and transplant team at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, offering specialist cardiac care for children. The work centres on advanced heart failure, including ventricular assist devices, and transplant, alongside general paediatric cardiology on-call. It also involves building referral pathways and clinics with other paediatric cardiac centres. Applicants must be on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register in Paediatric Cardiology within six months of the Appointments Committee date.
What the job involves
- Provide tertiary cardiac care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease, including referrals from other regions
- Develop the advanced heart failure and transplant service for regional and supra-regional patients
- Assess children with end-stage heart failure for high-risk surgery, mechanical support and cardiac transplant
- Provide inpatient and outpatient care and opinions for children with heart failure, contributing to the surgical MDT
- Take part in the general paediatric cardiology on-call rota (about 1 in 8)
- Take part in the heart transplant on-call rota (1 in 3), advising on children after transplant
- Liaise with other level one centres, consolidate referral pathways and provide virtual and face-to-face clinics
- Teach undergraduates, postgraduate cardiology trainees and other healthcare staff, and develop the middle grade training programme
- Support research projects in the department and develop own research profile
- Contribute to clinical governance, audit and continuing medical education across children's cardiac care
- Carry out administrative duties for patients and the congenital heart disease department, and investigate complaints within Trust timeframes
- Become involved in management of the cardiology budget, reviewing working practices for efficient use of resources
What’s required
Qualifications
- Primary medical qualification
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register within six months of the Appointments Committee date
Experience
- Evidence of appropriate training in advanced heart failure in children
- Evidence of experience and substantial commitment to paediatric cardiology
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Involvement in management and project leadership within the specialty
- Evidence of authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion within the specialty
- Ability to take independent responsibility for patients referred to a tertiary centre
- Ability to teach clinical, technical and practical skills, including undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Understanding of clinical governance
Other
- Understanding of research methodology, and critical review of literature
- Publications in the last five years
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Agreement to work a more flexible pattern, including evenings and weekends, if required
Nice to have
- Higher degree
- Special skills training in the specialty
- Experience in a unit delivering advanced heart failure management
- Proven management and administrative experience
- Evidence of leadership or project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
What’s offered
- Flexible working arrangements, where the service allows
- Commitment to teaching, education, research and audit
- Support to develop own research profile
- Trust staff benefits, set out in attached information
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
