Consultant in Cardiology - Cardiac Imaging

Consultant in Cardiology - Cardiac Imaging

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is excited to invite applications for an enthusiastic and motivated Consultant Cardiologist with a special interest in Cardiac Imaging.

This post is for a full-time Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in Cardiac Imaging, specifically Cardiac MRI and Nuclear Cardiology.

The post will be based mainly at Rotherham General Hospital. You will join a well-established Cardiology unit with the opportunity to develop and deliver state of the art services in a tailor make Cardiology suite including purpose built catheterisation/pacing laboratory dedicated for Cardiology use.

You will be joining a team of four other Consultant Cardiologists with sub-specialty interests including cardiac device therapy, heart failure, and coronary intervention. There is a plan to advertise for a second imaging consultant, with sub-speciality interest in advanced echo and cardiac CT, later this year. We also have visiting Consultants undertaking complex device implantation at Rotherham from the regional network.

Local procedures include left and right heart catheterisation, simple and complex cardiac device implantation, transthoracic echo, transoesophaegeal echo, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and cardiac CT imaging.

You will be level 3 competent and experienced in cardiac MRI and have a vision for developing this service locally. You will also lead on reporting myocardial perfusion scintigraphy scans alongside a medical physicist.

You will have had training and obtained full competency in all aspects of general Cardiology.

You will undertake two outpatient clinics per week. You will participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, the clinical and educational supervision of trainees and support our physiologists and specialist nurses.

There is no commitment to general medical on-call. Weekend review of cardiology inpatients and admissions to Rotherham Hospital is to be developed and the post holder will contribute to this activity. This duty will attract additional contracted programmed activity payment.

For interested candidates there is the opportunity to develop research interest. We have a successful portfolio of research studies within the cardiology unit supported by a research nurse from the Trust R&D Department.

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham.

As a Trust we are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a place to work? and were one of the most improved for staff engagement overall.

But dont just take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making.

All of our 5,100 colleagues are key to our improvement journey and we are continuing to improve our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together. If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us on our journey to excellence.

All Consultant interviews will be performed in person (face to face). If there are any exceptional circumstances as to why a candidate cannot attend in person then a possible virtual interview will be considered by the Executive panel but is not guaranteed.

The Department

This post is for a full-time Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in Cardiac Imaging, specifically Cardiac MRI and Nuclear Cardiology.

The post will be based mainly at Rotherham General Hospital. You will join a well-established Cardiology unit with the opportunity to develop and deliver state of the art services in a tailor make Cardiology…