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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiology
Closed for applications on: 7-Feb-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 7-Feb-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- ST THOMAS’ HOSPITAL
- Address
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed-term - 6 months)
- Hours
- 40 hours per week (Full time - 40 hours per week)
Salary
- Salary
- £55,329 p.a. excl. of LZ
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Nodal Point 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Cardiology
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Title of Post: Clinical Fellow in Cardiology (Non-Invasive)
Nature of Appointment: Fixed term contract – 12 months
Grade: Nodal Point 4
Hours: EWTD compliant, Full Time
Responsible to: Dr Jane Hancock and Camelia Demetrescu joint clinical leads for outpatients and non-invasive investigations
Accountable to: Professor Gerald Carr-White and Professor
Mark O’Neil - Clinical Directors
The Cardiovascular directorate at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is a large, tertiary centre for acute referrals, providing highly specialised treatments to patients of South East London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The three departments of Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery have 132 beds at the St Thomas’ hub site, 5 cardiac catheter laboratories, 4 dedicated operating theatres and a vascular hybrid facility with integrated imaging.
The senior clinical teams in the directorate provide some of the most advanced treatment options available, including TAVIs, complex EVARs, TEVARs and MVRs.
The Clinical Director for the directorate are Dr Gerry Carr-White and Dr Mark O’Neill and the General Manager is Mr Charlie Winstanley. Each of the departments has a Clinical Lead, with consultants in each team organised into firms based on specialist interest.
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The main responsibility will be to assist in providing the non-invasive cardiology service, but in particular the stress echocardiography and transoesophageal echo service. The post holder will be responsible for the clinical supervision of non-invasive clinical activity of inpatients and outpatients, including stress echocardiography, echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, exercise testing and open access electrocardiography.
They will be expected to provide general cardiology/medical supervision of the outpatient clinic and may be asked to give a cardiology opinion for non-cardiac inpatients.
They will be expected to be involved in stress echocardiography and will be trained appropriately, if necessary. It is expected that the doctor will, eventually, perform these procedures independently. If desired, there will be opportunities for further training in higher level echocardiography and the possibility of training in other imaging modalities, particularly cardiac CT.
The doctor should have significant training in, and will be expected to perform, trans-thoracic echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography with a view to gaining BSE or European accreditation in Transoesophageal echocardiography (if not already accredited).
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The list of duties and responsibilities given above is not an exhaustive list and you may be asked to undertake other duties in line with the overall purpose and nature of the post as may be required from time to time.
This job description reflects core activities of a post at a particular time. The trust expects that all staff will recognise this and adopt a flexible approach to work.
All staff are expected to contribute to the smooth running of their clinical service as required; in particular, to comply with the policies and procedures, Standing Orders and Financial Regulations of the trust.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications and Training:
Essential criteria
- MRCP completed
- Full GMC Registration.
- Valid ALS
Desirable criteria
- CCT in Cardiology
Clinical Experience:
Essential criteria
- Clinical Experience: Appropriate experience in Cardiology At least level 2 competency in one of: Transthoracic echocardiography Cardiac MRI
Knowledge and Skills:
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Competent in general medical procedures
- Good communication skills
Research
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical research
Teaching:
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate teaching qualification
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Camelia Demetrescu
- Job title
- Consultant Cardiac Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information please contact Dr Camelia Demetrescu
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