Locum Consultant Cardiologist

Job summary

The Cardiology Service has recently undergone a major Service Re-design and we have secured funding from the Trust Board to substantially increase staffing, including the appointment of two new Consultants. This post will offer flexibility to support an additional subspecialty interest such as heart failure, complex devices or cardiac imaging.

The job will be based at Russells Hall Hospital and most of the direct clinical activity will take place there. In addition, contribution to the MDT process will be expected, involving collaboration with interventional colleagues and Cardiac Surgeons at the Wolverhampton Heart and Lung Centre. If the successful candidate has an interest in heart failure, there is an expectation that you will supervise the community heart failure team and have at least one community session, as well as partaking in the weekly heart failure MDT.

There is a General Cardiology on-call commitment at Russells Hall Hospital (see below).

There is no on-call commitment for Acute medicine.

The Trust is committed to providing you with mentorship in your first year as a Consultant

Main duties of the job

Consultant duties in the Specialty of Cardiology. To provide a wide range

of high-quality general cardiology services to the local population

Working collaboratively with colleagues to further develop and improve all

other aspects of General Cardiology

Participation in 1:8 Cardiology on-call rota

Assessment and investigation of emergency and elective patients.

Implementation of Chest Pain Assessment and Heart Failure pathways

within the Trust and protocols agreed across The Black Country

Cardiovascular Network (ACS, STEMI, PPCI)

Administrative duties as required within the Directorate

About us

At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.

We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.

Dudley Group offer many opportunities for our staff to develop and grow within their roles through our Learning & OD department. These include topics such as communication, wellbeing, team development, cultural competency, and values, plus much more. For those in a Management/Leadership role, there are additional programmes to support you to develop the skills you need. These include our Managers Essentials Programme and a Leadership Programme that all managers will attend as part of your Dudley Managers Induction.