Consultant Cardiologist (Echocardiography and ACHD) - 9PAs

Integrated Care System; North East; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the UK seeks an experienced Consultant Cardiologist with subspeciality in echocardiography and adult congenital heart disease. The candidate will provide complex echocardiography services and support acute cardiology. This position offers a commitment to teaching, research, and flexible working hours to accommodate the needs of the service and patients.

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner with full GMC registration.
• Eligible to join the GMC Specialist Register within six months.
• Subspecialty training in advanced echocardiography required.

Responsibilities

• Provide complex echocardiography services.
• Contribute to acute cardiology on a 1:12 basis.
• Supervise postgraduate doctors in training.

Skills

Echocardiography

Clinical governance understanding

Management and administration

Research methodology

Education

MRCP or equivalent

Primary Medical Qualification

Higher Degree

Job description

Go back The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Cardiologist (Echocardiography and ACHD) - 9PAs

The closing date is 06 August 2025

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

We are seeking to appoint a Consultant Cardiologist with a subspeciality interest in echocardiography, and with experience in adult congenital heart disease to provide complex echocardiography services in the Trust. The successful applicant will perform on average 2 complex echo lists per week covering a range of procedures (TOE, pharmacological and exercise stress echo and contrast echo). The appointee will be expected to contribute to TOE provision for structural intervention procedures and to provide imaging support to the complex valve MDT meetings. There are currently two valve related MDTs per week each of one hour duration with additional bi-monthly regional valve interventional structural planning meetings.

There will be a commitment for 1:12 basis for acute cardiology, with no overnight cover.

Support for complex echo and adult congenital heart disease is an essential requirement of this post.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

Strengthen the Cardiac imaging department and the provision of specialist ACHD echocardiography.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Tim Irvine (0191 223 1459 option 3) or Dr Alexandra Thompson (0191 282 0168), Consultant Cardiologists with subspecialty interest in echocardiography, Dr David Crossland (0191 213 7484) and Dr Kristian Bailey (0191 282 0168), Clinical Director Cardiology and Respiratory.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teachingNHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

Imaging support to cardiothoracic MDTs

General Acute Cardiology take (1:12 Consultant of the week) with no overnight commitment

1 General cardiology outpatient clinic

1 Adult Congenital Heart Disease clinic

Administrative:

Review and Triage of referrals to outpatient clinics

Review and report investigations

Assist with prioritisation and planning of complex echo procedures

Research:

To be agreed individually with the successful applicant

Teaching:

Contribution to departmental teaching of postgraduate doctors in training, undergraduate medical students and specialist nurses

Formal teaching roles to be agreed with successful applicant depending upon experience

Flexibility:

In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC Registration
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• MRCP or equivalent
• Subspecialty Training in advanced echocardiography
• Higher Degree.
• Subspecialty training in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
• Ability to manage General Cardiology inpatients and outpatients.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre

Management and Administration Experience

• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance
• Involvement with unit management and project leadership
• Proven management and administration ability and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership and project management
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
• Ability to review clinical guidelines,

Teaching

• Experience of supervising postgraduate doctors in training.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
• Ability to teach clinical, technical and practical skills

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Higher degree. Research/critical review of literature
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit.
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the Trust's values.
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
• Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota.
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work

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.

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