Consultant Cardiologist

Transformationunitgm; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Cardiologist specializing in Heart Failure. The role involves providing inpatient care, participating in multidisciplinary team meetings, and contributing to the development of heart failure services. Candidates should have MRCP and relevant fellowship training, with a focus on patient management and research.

Qualifications

• MRCP required for the role.
• Post-CCT fellowship in complex coronary intervention is essential.
• Comprehensive training in Pure Cardiology or equivalent SpR training.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient care in the Heart Failure Unit.
• Attend Heart Failure MDT meetings for complex case reviews.
• Guide management of heart failure patients in the community.

Skills

Cardiology

Heart Failure Management

Research Development

Education

MRCP

Post-CCT fellowship in complex coronary intervention

Job description

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St George's Hospital Town London Salary £105,504 - £139,882 PA Salary period Yearly Closing 22/06/2025 23:59

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Job overview

Applications are invited for a post of Consultant Cardiologist in Heart Failure with a subspecialist interest in cardiometabolic syndrome, based at St George’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the Cardiology Department. The consultant is expected to work with the dedicated Heart Failure team at St Georges to provide inpatient care on the dedicated Heart Failure Unit and for outlying patients. There is a weekly CMR/Heart Failure MDT for complex case review. The post holder will join Dr Anderson, Dr Shanmugam, Dr Ray and Dr Jouhra in the heart failure consultant team.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work with the Heart Failure Consultant team to continue to meet the NICE target of review within 2 weeks for all newly referred outpatients at high risk and 6 weeks for all other patients. The NICE quality standard is for heart failure patients to be reviewed within 24 hours of admission. The post-holder will attend the Heart Failure MDT meeting with nurses, therapists and the extended team. Responsibility for supervision of the Community Heart Failure Nurses is also shared between the Heart Failure Consultants and as a result, the post holder will also be responsible for guiding the management of a large cohort of heart failure patients in the community.

A key responsibility of this role is to contribute to continued development of heart failure services locally and the heart failure unit. The post holder will be expected to act as PI in International HF Trials and would be encouraged to develop their own Research proposals.

Working for our organisation

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George’s Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London (details below). St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages. These services are provided from Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, 11 health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries, patients' homes and Wandsworth Prison.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

§ To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirement of the Health and Safety Regulations.

§ To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.

§ To work in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.

§ To ensure skills are up-to-date and relevant to the role, to follow relevant Trust policies and professional codes and to maintain registration where this is a requirement of the role.

§ To be trained in and demonstrate fair employment practices, in line with trust policies)

§ To comply with St. George’s Healthcare No Smoking Policies.

§ To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.

Job description currently pending RCP approval.

Person specification

• MRCP
• Post-CCT fellowship in complex coronary intervention

Experience

• Comprehensive training on a recognised SpR programme in Pure Cardiology or equivalent SpR training.
• High volume complex percutaneous coronary intervention

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email or via NHS Jobs.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image

As part of you pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require atleast one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.