Job responsibilities
Barts Health is looking to appoint a locum Consultant in Cardiac Surgery with a Specialist Interest in Septal Myectomy. This is an exciting new position with the opportunity for the successful applicant to join the already successful multidisciplinary septal myectomy team, and to develop the program. This will be one of a number of areas of specialist expertise to which the new surgical department is committed. The successful candidate will be based at the Barts Heart Centre, in the KGV building at St Bartholomews Hospital.
The Barts Heart Centre is the merged cardiothoracic units of Barts Health (London Chest and St Bartholomews/QE II site) and the cardiac unit at the Heart Hospital. The Heart Centre performed 2000 adult cardiac surgical cases in the first year and has a projected case load of 3000 cases within 5 years. In its current capacity, it is the largest cardiac surgical unit in the UK. There is currently a team of 15 substantive consultant cardiac surgeons. This workforce includes 2 consultant congenital surgeons in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital who deliver the Grown Up Congenital Heart (GUCH) surgical service which currently performs around 100 cases per year.
The co-located and expanding Thoracic surgical department now performs over 1000 cases per year.
The final two theatres of ten opened in November 2016 and offer additionally a state of the art hybrid theatre and a further theatre to accommodate robotic cardiac and thoracic surgery.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to direct and participate in cardiovascular academic research at the William Harvey Institute.
The advertised consultant cardiac surgical post attracts 10 PAs which will be 8 DCCs and 2 SPAs. The on-call commitment will be a 1:10 adult cardiac surgical rota and an aortic dissection rota of 1:7.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate professional excellence, leadership and the ability to deliver effective care. He/she will need to agree levels of activity and throughput with the Clinical Director of Surgery.
The successful candidate will be required to adhere to the Trusts policy on Maintaining Medical Excellence and to be committed to maintaining their standard of performance by keeping their knowledge and skills up to date.
- Key Working Relationships
Cardiothoracic consultant staff is comprised of:
- Mr Stephen Edmondson (Clinical Director)
- Mr Kulvinder Lall (Clinical Lead- cardiac surgery)
- Mr Kelvin Lau (Clinical Director- thoracic surgery)
- Prof Rakesh Uppal
- Mr Alex Shipolini
- Mr Phooi Wong
- Mr Wael Awad
- Mr Shirish Ambekar
- Mr Ben Adams
- Mr Amir Sheikh
- Mr Neil Roberts
- Mr John Yap
- Mr Carmelo Di Salvo
- Mr Shyamsunder Kolvekar
- Mrs Henrietta Wilson
- Prof Aung Oo
- Mr Steven Stamenkovic
- Miss Anna Lopez Marco
- Mr Dincer Aktuerk
General duties
Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care.
- Leadership, development and organisation of the services in his/her charge in line with the Trusts business plans. Liaison and communication with the Clinical Director, the General Manager and the CAG Group Director.
- Corporate and individual responsibility for the professional management of doctors in training.
Specific duties of this post
- The post holder will, together with consultant colleagues, be responsible for the provision of cardiac & septal myectomy surgical services to Barts Health.
- To enhance and further develop a world class septal myectomy service
- Participate in the multidisciplinary Inherited Cardiovascular Disease team, contributing to the development of complex treatments, innovations and research
- To undertake 2 days of operating.
- The consultant clinical responsibilities which are involved in patient care including participation in the Consultant of the Week rota.
- Once clinic per week with new and follow-up outpatients.
- To provide diagnosis and treatment of patients in hospitals and clinics within the Trust
- To provide evidence-based care for all patients.
- 9. To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with colleagues, managers, general practitioners, community services, and all healthcare agencies.
- 10. To maintain and promote team and multi-disciplinary work, working particularly closely and regularly with existing post-holders
- 11. To participate fully in the management of the department and to liaise closely with the general manager and the Clinical and CAG Group Director and management team.
- On-call commitments
General cardiac surgical on-call is currently performed by 14 of the cardiac surgeons. The successful post holder will be expected to undertake on-call cover usually for 1 day in a 2 week cycle and 1:12 weekends. There is a separate on-call aortic dissection rota which currently has a frequency 1:10.
Trauma services at the Royal London are covered by dedicated trauma surgeons and if there is a need for cardiothoracic surgery, this will, ordinarily, be covered by the thoracic surgeons working from the Thorax Centre also located in the KGV building.
- Accountability
The appointee will have full professional independence on medical matters but will be managerially accountable to the Trust and Hospital Chief Executive, through his/her Clinical Director /Divisional Director.
- Clinical Governance
The post holder is expected to participate in the Trusts clinical effectiveness activities, and to encourage and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services. The post-holder will assist with the safeguarding of high standards of care by participating in the creation of an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.
- CPD/ CME
The Trust supports the requirements for Continuing Professional Development and Continuing Medical Education activities, in line with the requirements of the GMC and Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.
The post-holder will be expected to be committed to the concept of lifelong learning and produce and maintain a Personal Development Plan in agreement with the Clinical Director /CAG Director.
Study leave is available as provided for under the Terms and Conditions of Service for Hospital Medical and Dental staff, subject to the approval of the Clinical Director /CAG Director.
- Revalidation
The Trust supports activities and processes required to be undertaken by the surgeon to demonstrate to the GMC that they are up to date and fit to practise. The Trust has the required arrangements in place to ensure that all surgeons have an annual appraisal with a trained appraiser and supports surgeons going through the revalidation process, for which time will be scheduled in the job plan.
- Mentoring
The Trust will offer every new consultant a mentorship scheme to help the consultant settle into work as easily as possible, particularly, if the consultant wishes to develop a super specialty interest. The department has surgeons with interests in all super specialties and there are already existing mentorship schemes in various super specialty interests.
- Teaching and training
The Trust is committed to sustaining and advancing the provision of medical, dental, nursing and other professional education and to the delivery of high quality postgraduate and undergraduate training.
The post-holder will be expected to participate fully in the education of undergraduate medical students, health professionals and postgraduate doctors across the Trust. This will involve specific timetables and regular teaching commitments agreed with the Lead Surgeon/CAU Director, and supervised by the Unit Training Director and Educational Supervisors.
- Research and development
The post holder will be expected to help develop the clinical research portfolio and a culture of cardiac surgical research in the department, with collaboration and active engagement of the local and regional research networks and institutions.
Research will be carried out under the guidance of the Research and Development department and in line with Trust policies.
- Equal opportunities
The post holder must at all times carry out responsibilities and duties with due regard to the Trusts Equal Opportunities Policy.
- Health and safety
The post holder is expected to undertake the appropriate management responsibilities, and be aware of individual responsibilities in accordance with the Trusts Health and Safety policy and report as necessary, any untoward accident, incident or potentially hazardous environment. The post holder will promote and implement the Health and Safety Policy. The Trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
- Infection prevention and control roles and responsibilities
- To adhere to Trust policy and infection control principles and standards to minimise patient risk and ensure high quality patient care.
- Undertake appropriate training and practice to ensure you (and your teams) have the right skills and are competent.
- Are responsible for keeping the environment clutter free, clean and raising issues of concern in the interest of staff and patient safety.
- Ensure high cleaning standards to prevent infection and increase patient's confidence.
- With others, support and develop evidence based clinical practices consistent with national guidance.
- Advise and support the Director of Infection Control and Prevention (DIPC), Deputy DIPC and infection control team in achieving their objectives and fulfilling their responsibilities
- Advise and support Divisional and CAU Infection Control leads
