Consultant Cardiac Surgeon | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS teaching trust in the UK is seeking a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon to join their team at the Oxford Heart Centre. The role involves providing surgical services, participating in teaching, and maintaining clinical governance. Applicants must be qualified medical practitioners with expertise in cardiac surgery. This full-time position offers supportive mentorship and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Mentorship from senior consultants

Opportunities for training and professional development

Qualifications

• Must be a registered medical practitioner with current GMC registration.
• Experience in adult cardiac surgery is essential.
• Participation in clinical governance activities required.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to adult cardiac surgical provision, including clinics and operations.
• Provide on-call emergency cover for adult cardiac surgery on a 1:6 rota.
• Participate in teaching students and training junior doctors.

Skills

Surgical expertise in cardiac procedures

Teaching and mentoring skills

Strong communication

Education

Medical degree and surgical training

Fellowship in Cardiac Surgery

Job description

We are recruiting a substantive Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the Oxford Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital. The Oxford Heart Centre is a busy tertiary cardiac centre, offering cardiology and cardiothoracic surgical services to all the surrounding districts. The post-holder will contribute to adult cardiac surgical provision within the Trust.

The post-holder will be provided with appropriate office facilities and secretarial support to fulfil this role. This is a replacement post with an established referral base, but the post-holder will be encouraged and supported to develop new referral pathways.



The postholder’s duties will be primarily at the John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.

It is expected that the post-holder will contribute to adult cardiac surgical provision within the Trust including out-patient clinics, operating lists, and ward rounds. The post-holder will provide on-call emergency cover for adult cardiac surgery on a 1:6 rota including a regular weekend ward round. The post-holder will be provided with appropriate office facilities (shared office, networked PC) and secretarial support to fulfil this role. This is a replacement post with an established referral base, but the post-holder will be encouraged and supported to develop new referral pathways.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Clinical

It is expected that the post-holder will contribute to adult cardiac surgical provision within the Trust including out-patient clinics, operating lists, and ward rounds. The post-holder will provide on-call emergency cover for adult cardiac surgery on a 1:6 rota including a regular weekend ward round. The post-holder will be provided with appropriate office facilities (shared office, networked PC) and secretarial support to fulfil this role. This is a replacement post with an established referral base, but the post-holder will be encouraged and supported to develop new referral pathways.

Teaching/Research

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.

Clinical Governance

The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust and external accrediting bodies.

Personal and Professional Development

The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up to date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs. The post-holder will be offered the resources required to support their professional revalidation.

Mentoring

The post-holder will be offered personal and clinical mentorship by a senior consultant within the department according to their sub-specialty interest(s). Mentorship from a senior consultant will be available during the working week and over on-call weekday nights and weekends.

Management

The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. The post-holder will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of their patients, and the running of their clinical service under the direction of the lead clinician and/or directorate chair.


This advert closes on Saturday 16 Aug 2025