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About
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Contact
- Address
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Queen Victoria Road
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne and Wear
- NE1 4LP
- Contact Number
- 0191 282 0999 option 2
Clinical Fellow in Interventional Cardiology (ST3+ equivalent)
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Postcode
- NE7 7DN
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (ASAP for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (no on-call)
Salary
- Salary
- £67,325 - £76,582 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4 (MT04))
Specialty
- Main area
- Cardiology
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
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, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
Candidates should be nearing the end of their specialist training in cardiology, be proficient in coronary angiography and have solid proficiency in coronary interventions.
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.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Advert
This post is an opportunity to gain experience in interventional cardiology in a high volume UK centre including primary PCI service. This post would be suitable for a candidate post-CCT in cardiology, or with equivalent experience, aiming for appointment as a consultant specialising in interventional cardiology. The appointee would gain a large volume of practical experience in percutaneous coronary intervention including PPCI, IVUS, rotational atherectomy, pressure wire assessment, laser catheters, percutaneous treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and transcutaneous aortic and mitral valves intervention.
Professor Mohaned Egred, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist on 0191 9330210 or via e-mail at [email protected] or Dr Bilal Bawamia, Consultant Interventional cardiologist 0191 2139423 or email [email protected]
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
The successful appointee will work with all the interventional consultants. Duties will include multiple weekly lab sessions working alongside consultant staff. There will be responsibility for the management of patients undergoing interventional cardiology procedures. There will be occasional out-patient commitment.
Administrative:
Responsibility for recording the procedural report and completion of BCIS and MINAP data collection after each case, writing discharge summaries, communication with General Practitioners will be necessary.
Other:
Attendance and participation at the weekly cardiothoracic MDT, educational meeting and PCI quality assurance programme.
Emergency and On-call Responsibilities:
The Interventional Fellow will not be required to participate in the StRs out-of-hours rota. Attendance at out-of-hours PCI for further experience in emergency revascularisation will be offered.
Education and Training:
A named educational supervisor (Professor M Egred) will discuss the needs of the Fellow at the start of the job and review them regularly. The will be required to undertake recruitment into the departmental research studies and the administrative activities are opportunities for Audit, and the fellows will also be encouraged to develop an interest in the research activities of the department. The appointee will be involved as a sub-investigator for on-going clinical studies in the department.
Accountability:
The Clinical Fellows are accountable in their clinical duties to the consultants whose patients they are managing in the first instance, to the Clinical Director of cardiothoracic services and ultimately to the Medical Director of the Trust.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trust’s 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.
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB or Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration or eligibility to obtain this within 3 months.
- MRCP or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Research degree and record of publications
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of competence in care of cardiac patients at StR level.
- Fully competent in diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and transthoracic echocardiography
- PCI experience as first operator.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced PCI experience
Maintaining Clinical Competence
Essential criteria
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.
Desirable criteria
- Any objective evidence of competency in teaching. ALS instructor status
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects.
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills.
- IT literate.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Scorfield
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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