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 have a UK CCT or equivalent 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.
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.
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)
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
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.
Job description
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
Essential
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
- 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
Desirable
- Higher Degree
- Special skills training in the specialty
- Experience in a unit delivering advanced heart failure management
Clinical Experience
Essential
- 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
Essential
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
Essential
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Research/critical review of literature
- Publications in the last five years
Desirable
Audit
Essential
- Evidence of participation in audit
Desirable
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's values.
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential
- Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
- 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
Desirable
- Higher Degree
- Special skills training in the specialty
- Experience in a unit delivering advanced heart failure management
Clinical Experience
Essential
- 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
Essential
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
Essential
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Research/critical review of literature
- Publications in the last five years
Desirable
Audit
Essential
- Evidence of participation in audit
Desirable
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's values.
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
