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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.

About us

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.

Job description
Job 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 Trusts 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. Georges 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
Essential
Essential

• MRCP

Desirable

• Post-CCT fellowship in complex coronary intervention

Experience
Essential

• Comprehensive training on a recognised SpR programme in Pure Cardiology or equivalent SpR training.

Desirable

• High volume complex percutaneous coronary intervention

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