Trust Fellow in Interventional Cardiology / Senior TAVI Fellow (ST3+)

Job summary

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

The successful candidate will work closely within the TAVI and the wider interventional team to support the growing TAVI service at the Freeman Hospital. They should have extensive experience in interventional cardiology and be independent or have received high training volume for percutaneous coronary intervention. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of TAVI care and will be supported in gaining experience in the technical steps of the TAVI procedure, aiming to achieve an independent level operator by the end of their fellowship. As part of the TAVI team, the successful candidate should be able to demonstrate effective team working, leadership, and communication skills. They are expected to support research studies relating to TAVI, co-ordinate with research nurses, and obtain data.

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

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.

Main duties of the job

This post is an opportunity to gain experience in TAVI in a high-volume UK centre, aiming to achieve independence by the end of the fellowship. This post would be suitable for a candidate who has high-level interventional training and possesses the required interpersonal skills to support the TAVI service at the Freeman Hospital.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

The successful candidate will work as part of the TAVI team. They will be responsible for patients undergoing TAVI, including procedural preparation and CT analysis, MDT work up, and post TAVI care. They will support one dedicated TAVI clinic per week and are expected to liaise with the TAVI specialist nurse to support the service for elective and urgent inter-hospital transfer.

Administrative:

Recording data following TAVI procedures in local databases, writing discharge summaries, communicating with General Practitioners, and liaising with the TAVI specialist nurse about the TAVI service.

Research and Teaching:

There will be opportunities to conduct research studies related to TAVI and other structural heart interventions. The successful candidate is expected to support ongoing research activities within and outside the catheterisation laboratory. They are also expected to contribute to the weekly Journal Club and interesting interventional cases.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s 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.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise.

Desirable

• Higher research degree (MSc or PhD).

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of PCI procedures, including complex PCI.
• Proactive care of pre- and post-procedural patients.
• Insight into abilities and knowledge, and the ability to ask for help when required.

Desirable

• High volume PCI experience (> 600 cases).
• Previous experience in assisting TAVI procedures.

Management and Administration Experience

Essential

• Ability to run a service and participate in management processes.
• Committed to share in professional, managerial, and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.

Desirable

• Proven management and administration ability.
• Understanding of management goals.
• Experience with audit.
• Evidence of leadership/project management.
• Evidence of having implemented change.

Teaching

Essential

• Experience of supervising junior staff.
• Ability to teach clinical skills.

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

Essential

• Experience of audit projects and Clinical Governance.
• Understanding of research principles.

Desirable

• Publications in interventional research.

Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues

Essential

• Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team.
• Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Alignment with the Trust’s Values.
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
• A commitment to personal/unit CPD.
• Time management skills.
• Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality.

Desirable

• Evidence of leadership skills.
• IT literate.

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

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