Consultant in Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist

Applications are invited for a Consultant in Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist with the role being located within the Cardiology Department at Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust and also at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. The post holder along with their fellow Consultant colleagues, will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive Cardiology service to the Trust and the local community, a 24/7 cardiology On-Call service which requires a 1 in 6 commitment and will contribute to the provision of a Dorset wide Electrophysiology service.

The post holder will have been extensively trained in clinical Electrophysiology and will be a third Cardiologist implanting complex devices  their capacity as visiting Consultant, there will be one day/week of procedural Electrophysiology at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital where the Dorset Electrophysiology service is based. In addition to Electrophysiology, the post holder will also undertake Ablation at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

The postholder will lead the Arrhythmia service at Dorset County Hospital, providing Arrhythmia specialist opinions with dedicated Arrhythmia clinics. Additionally there is a regular devices MDT which the post holder will chair. The post will also entail supporting the pacing and complex devise service at Dorset County Hospital. This is a substantive, full time (11 PA) post based at Dorset County Hospital with EP & Ablation sessions at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

This is a replacement post. The post holder, with their 6 Consultant colleagues, will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive Cardiology service to the Trust and the local community, a 24/7 cardiology On
- Call service and will contribute to the provision of a Dorset wide Electrophysiology service. The post holder will have been extensively trained in clinical Electrophysiology and will be a third Cardiologist implanting complex devices re will be one day/week of procedural Electrophysiology at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital where the Dorset EP service is based. The post requires a 1 in 6 commitment to a general Cardiology on-call rota.

The postholder will lead the arrhythmia service at Dorset County Hospital, providing arrhythmia specialist opinions with dedicated arrhythmia clinics. The postholder will also support the pacing and complex device service  a visiting consultant the postholder will undertake EP and ablation at University Hospitals Dorset (Royal Bournemouth site). University Hospitals Dorset (Royal Bournemouth Hospital) EP Service The post holder will work with the 4 Electrophysiologists based at the Dorset Heart Centre, and the other visiting Electrophysiologist (based at Salisbury District Hospital).

There are also 2 EP fellows, 5 arrhythmia nurses in addition to the cardiology junior doctors and physiologists who together all make up the EP team. The busy EP service covers Dorset, and adjacent parts of Hampshire and Wiltshire with a catchment of approx. 1 million. In 2021/22 707 EP & ablation procedures were performed. The EP labs have Lab System Pro EP recording systems (Boston), Carto 3, and EnSite mapping systems with image integration of CT or MRI scans.

Additionally, we use Cryoablation (Arctic Front) and Pulsed Field Ablation. In accordance with the Terms and Conditions of Service, the successful candidate will be appointed to a 11 PA clinical contract with 9.5 PAs of direct clinical care and 1.5 PAs of supporting professional activity. Further sessions of direct clinical care may be available to the successful applicant by mutual agreement with the Trust.

The on call commitment is band A and attracts a supplement of 5% of total annual salary. The successful candidate will be offered the opportunity of continuing professional development, including training in non-clinical aspects of the post. He/she will take responsibility for advising, counselling and agreeing training and development plans for junior medical staff and will be expected to participate in the training of junior medical staff as laid down in the Trust Education Contract.

The Cardiology department has six weekly clinical governance meetings. The…