Consultant Cardiac Surgeon Transplantation and Organ Retrieval

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading heart and lung hospital in Cambridge is seeking a substantive NHS consultant surgeon. You will play a key role in adult cardiac surgery and organ retrieval, joining a team dedicated to education and research. The position offers a flexible job plan and opportunities for involvement in training and clinical standards. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in cardiac surgery and a commitment to maintaining high practice standards.

Qualifications

• Proven ability in all aspects of adult cardiac surgery.
• Participation in team education and training.
• Experience with organ retrieval and transplantation processes.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat adult cardiac surgery patients.
• Cover organ retrieval rota and manage machine perfusion.
• Train and supervise junior doctors.

Skills

Adult cardiac surgery

Transplantation and organ retrieval

Clinical audit

Participation in education programs

Supervision and assessment of junior doctors

Job description

We are excited to advertise for a substantive NHS consultant surgeon post at the Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ("Royal Papworth Hospital"). The post-holder must have a proven ability in all aspects of adult cardiac surgery, with a sub-specialty interest in transplantation and organ retrieval.

This full-time post will join the existing team of 18 cardiothoracic surgery consultants while supporting education and research as part of Royal Papworth Hospitals' Tripartite Mission.

The post will have a flexible job plan for operating sessions and outpatient clinics. There are regular in-patient ward rounds in the critical care area and on the surgical wards. The post-holder will be required to join the transplant team, including attendance at the transplant patient listing, inpatient MDT and review of organ donor offers.

Main duties of the job

• Provide assessment and treatment for adult cardiac surgery patients, including patients undergoing transplantation.
• Provide cover for the organ retrieval rota, as well as being involved in machine perfusion technologies, both at donor site and at Royal Papworth hospital.
• Contribute to the training, supervision, assessment and appraisal of junior doctors in accordance with standards required by the hospital, Royal College and Postgraduate Dean.
• Participate in the training of other members of the surgical team.
• Participate in the education programme for medical students attached to Papworth.
• Ensure that practice standards are maintained and developed through clinical audit, evidence-based research and appraisal.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state‑of‑the‑art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission – a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day‑to‑day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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