Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Accepting applications until: 31-Oct-2025 08:00
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 31-Oct-2025 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
- Address
- St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Adult Cardiac Surgery
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
The Cardiovascular Directorate is seeking a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon with a Specialist Interest in Aortic Surgery (full-time 10 PA) to join a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking team. The post holder will be based predominantly at St Thomas’ Hospital, London (STH).
The Cardiac Surgery department at St. Thomas’ Hospital has two subspecialty teams, a Mitral Valve Team and an Aortic Surgery team. We are proud to be a model in that respect and we are following the GIRFT recommendations, with a specialist aortic dissection on-call rota. There is continuous collaboration with the Vascular Surgeons, dedicated aortic surveillance clinics, a comprehensive thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair programme, a weekly aortovascular MDT (joint with Vascular Surgery) and a monthly specialist aortic root MDT (joint with Cardiology).
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To provide a clinical Cardiac Surgical service for adult patients as part of the whole Cardiac Surgery team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. As a tertiary service, with the majority of referrals coming from District General Hospitals in Kent and South East England, this will include involvement in outreach clinics.
The clinical service consists of all aspects of elective and emergency adult cardiac surgery with the exception of transplantation. The majority of the work consists of coronary revascularisation and valve surgery. There is a well established Minimal Access Aortic Surgery programme and a Minimal Access Mitral programme. There is a major aorto-vascular service with a dedicated AAD on-call service.
To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
The post-holder will assist in providing cross-cover for inpatient care and picking up theatre lists during annual leave absences. On the weeks where the post-holder is Consultant of the Week, they will not have any scheduled theatre lists nor clinics. These theatre lists will be cross covered by colleagues. The fixed and flexible operating days will be defined – i.e. Wednesday fixed theatre list and alternative Monday flexible theatre list.
Working for our organisation
The Cardiovascular Centre at St Thomas' Hospital is one of the largest in the UK, with facilities including a six-bedded Coronary Care Unit, a cardiology ward with special expertise in adult congenital heart disease, a suite of five Catheter laboratories, four Cardiothoracic theatres, a state of the art hybrid theatre and a dedicated outpatient centre. There is excellent provision of the full range of non-invasive testing including cardiac MRI.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a first class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice.
• To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
• To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
• To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.
• To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.
• To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
• Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
• Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
• Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
• Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.
• The Trust will follow the GMC recommended procedures for revalidation.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of thorough and broad training and experience in relevant speciality
- Specialist training in Cardiac Surgery
- Experienced independent operator for cardiac surgery, especially for ‘routine’ CABG, AVR and AVR + CABG
- Able to take responsibility for delivering service without direct supervision
Desirable criteria
- Post-CCT fellowship experience in an area of sub-specialty interest e.g. mini-mitral, aorto-vascular
- Proven track record of research in cardiac surgery
- Leadership of care group/directorate (or equivalent)
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- FRCS or equivalent
- On the Specialist Register of The GMC or within 6 months of eligibility at the time of interview
- Holder of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Cardiac Surgery, or within six months of award of CCT or equivalent by date of interview
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (PhD, MD etc)
- Commitment to continuing Medical Education
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Technical and clinical skills required for Cardiac Surgery
- Evidence of active involvement in governance and audit /Ability to conduct clinical audi
- Broad range of IT skills
- Ability to initiate & supervise research (
Desirable criteria
- Understanding needs of service development
- Clinical leadership skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Kamran Baig
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Cardiac Surgery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071881057
- Additional information
Informal enquiries may be made to Mr Kamran Baig on 02071881077 or email: [email protected].
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