Locum Consultant Cardiologist Interest in Cardiac Electrophysiology

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This is a locum appointment, intended to maximise utilization of the infrastructure.  The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for adult patients with cardiac arrhythmias from King's, the local community, and referring hospitals.  In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.   The post-holder will be asked to participate in the EP on call rota and may be expected to undertake outreach clinics. The post-holder will be expected to part-take in the consultant-of-the-week in-patient ward cover.

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The post will be based at both Denmark Hill. The proposed Job Plan is outlined in the Job Description.   There will be an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care, with the remainder being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities.   There is no on-call commitment for general cardiology, but the post-holder will participate in an out of hours arrhythmia on-call service (currently 1 in 6). 

As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.   Integral to these responsibilities is the following: 

• The provision of a first class clinical service
• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
• Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London
• Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies
• Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans
• Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 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 Bromley. 

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. 

In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.