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 an 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 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.
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Main duties of the job
This post is an opportunity to gain experience in TAVI in a high-volume UK centre, aiming to achieve independent level by the end of the fellowship. This post would be suitable for a candidate who has high level interventional training and poses the required inter-personal skills to support the TAVI service at the Freeman Hospital.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Dr Richard Edwards via email at richard.edwards21@nhs.net / Professor Azfar Zaman via email at azfar.zaman@nhs.net / Dr Mohammad Alkhalil via email at mohammad.alkhalil@nhs.net / Dr Mohamed Farag via email at mohamedfarag@nhs.net or Professor Rajiv Das via email at rajiv.das1@nhs.net
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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:
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. There will support one dedicated TAVI clinic per week. They 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 TAVI specialist nurse about the TAVI service.
Research and Teaching:
There will be opportunity 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 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:
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. There will support one dedicated TAVI clinic per week. They 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 TAVI specialist nurse about the TAVI service.
Research and Teaching:
There will be opportunity 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 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 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 process.
- 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.
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 process.
- 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.
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
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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).
