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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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We are one of London's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a strong profile of local services primarily serving the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.

Our specialist services are available to patients across a wider catchment area, providing nationally and internationally recognised work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology and foetal medicine.

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Address
King's College Hospital
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 9RS
Contact Number
0203 299 9000

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Ref: 213-MED-PRUH-7999973 Vacancy ID: 7999973

Consultant Cardiologist

Accepting applications until: 28-Jun-2026 23:59

Open

Accepting applications until: 28-Jun-2026 23:59

Location

princess royal university hospital
Farnborough Common
Locksbottom
BR6 8ND
London

Contract type & working pattern

Permanent
Full time - 40 hours per week (10 Sessions per week)

Salary

£113,565 - £150,569 Excluding London Allowance
Yearly

(NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)

Specialty

Cardiology
Interview date
18/08/2026

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements. 

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Job overview

This is a General Cardiology Consultant post.  The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients and to provide and develop in-patient and out-patient cardiac services to the Trust’s.  In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff. 

There maybe a contribution to the acute medical rota.

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The post will be based at the Princess Royal University Hospital and the proposed Job Plan (10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post. 

In-patient duties presently consist of 1 joint rota carried out on a weekly basis (Cardiology Consultant of The Week). This supports the 20 bedded cardiology ward, acute Cardiology admissions and acute referrals as well as an advice and guidance service and referral triage for General Practitioners.

 The Cardiology Consultant of the Week (CCOW) commitment is for a 1:7 rota, which is job planned and does not attract on call supplement. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us. 

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon. 

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year. 

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:

  1. Brilliant People
  2. Outstanding care
  3. Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
  4. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.    Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients.  This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.

2.    Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis.  Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.

3.    Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.

4.    Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.

5.    Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.

6.    Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.

7.    Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.

8.    Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan.  This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.

9.    Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s). 

10.  Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty.  This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained. 

11.  Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced.  This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.

12.  Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.

13.  Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. 

14.  Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.

15.  King’s is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications & Higher Education

Essential criteria
  • Registerable medical qualification
  • Full MRCP
Desirable criteria
  • Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)
  • BSE accreditation in echocardiography or equivalent

Registration & Interview Eligibility

Essential criteria
  • Full Registration with GMC
  • Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
  • On the day of interview applicants must be within 6 months of CCT or must have fully completed CESR application and be fully registered on the GMC Specialist Register. Any applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered

Training and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Wide experience in all aspects of general and acute cardiology, culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)or award of Certificate of Eligibility for Specialty Registration (CESR) by GMC
  • Good knowledge and experience in GIM
Desirable criteria
  • Special interest in echocardiography, stress echocardiography and cardiac pacing
  • Special interest and experience in other cardiac imaging modalities e.g. Cardiac CT

Administration

Essential criteria
  • Experience in day-to-day organisation of cardiology services in a busy Teaching Hospital
  • Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
  • Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
  • Management course and/or qualification

Research and Publications

Essential criteria
  • Experience of clinical research
  • Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of cardiology

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching skills course/qualification

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Mohammad Albarjas
Job title
Cardiology Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02077940500
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