Clinical Fellow - Cardiology

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS service provider in Birmingham seeks a Clinical Fellow GP to join their Cardiology service. The role focuses on patient assessment and management within community settings, emphasizing continuous improvement and innovation in patient care. Candidates must have GMC registration and a relevant specialist diploma. This position offers a salary of £10,250 per session, along with benefits including NHS pension enrolment and minimum annual leave of 27 days.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Annual leave - minimum of 27 days plus bank holidays

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Well-being support

Qualifications

• Experience in community/secondary care.
• Strong understanding of out of hospital care.
• Driving licence and ability to travel.

Responsibilities

• Undertake postgraduate specialist diploma qualification.
• Assess, manage, and follow up patients in the service.
• Support quality improvement through audits and research.

Skills

Problem solving

Teamwork

Adaptability

Education

Professional GMC registration

Specialist diploma in specialty area

Tools

SYSTMONE

Job description

Modality LLP is a large-scale provider of Specialist NHS Services, renowned for its innovative approach to delivering efficient pathways for patients requiring specialist care, leading to high quality patient outcomes. We work in partnership with a number of hospitals across the country to collaboratively redesign outpatient services with more care being delivered in community settings.

We are looking to expand our specialist team by recruiting a Clinical Fellow GP within our Cardiology service. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is £10,250 per session.

This job is suitable for individuals who have a passion for working in an agile manner ensuring a high-quality service is provided. The postholders will be committed to undertake any other duties commensurate with the role, within the bounds of their own competence.

As an employee with us you can benefit from:

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

Enhanced Family friendly policies

Wellbeing support and initiative

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Fellows will be supported to undertake a postgraduate specialist diploma qualification together with protected time. They will build a portfolio of evidence including in the day-to-day assessment, management, monitoring and follow up of patients referred to the service. The Clinical Fellow will support continuous improvement of standards and the quality of patient care delivered through the service, through audits, MDTs, research, and other modalities.

Please note that we require Clinical Fellows to sign up to a 2-year commitment contract with Modality LLP in order to be eligible for these roles. The 2-year commitment contract requires candidates to repay costs associated with the Clinical Fellowship programme i.e. education and training costs, should they leave the organisation within 2 years post-completion of the clinical fellowship.

About us

Modality LLP is a provider of NHS community outpatient services within a number of regions across the UK.

Our service offer and expertise include:

• Over 15 years of experience of delivering community outpatient services
• Contracts with ICBs and hospital providers
• A diverse clinical workforce of consultants, GPs with extended roles, specialist nurses and allied health professionals
• Delivery of over 120,000 patient consultations per year
• Delivery of 1st consultations within a maximum of 4 weeks from referral from a choice of community locations, 7 days per week

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

You will love this job if you have a passion for patient care and for developing and delivering new and innovative patient pathways.

If you feel this is the ideal career and looking for a daily challenge, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of like-minded people.

Please note Modality LLP reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Pre-employment

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional GMC registration and appropriate qualifications.
• Specialist diploma within specialty area.
• Experience of working within community/secondary care.
• A strong understanding and experience of out of hospital care/community specialist services.
• Experience of working between primary and secondary care settings.
• Full driving licence and the ability to travel between service locations.

Skills

• Able assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Able to work unsupervised.
• Ability to be flexible with working hours to meet the needs of the service.

Knowledge

• Risk management awareness and able to assess clinical risk.
• Experience of using clinical systems such as SYSTMONE.
• Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.