Fixed Term Consultant Cardiologist with an Interest in Heart Failure

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group are looking to recruit a Consultant Cardiologist with a special interest in heart failure. Are you looking to make a lasting impact on cardiac care? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team in a brand-new post dedicated to further developing the Heart Failure Service in Lincolnshire . This role offers a unique blend of clinical leadership, advanced diagnostics, and community-integrated care.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract based at Lincoln County Hospital. We are open to doctors who are looking for more of a longer term contract.

This role includes participating in the trust-wide, non-interventional cardiology on-call rota on a 1:8 frequency .

Main duties of the job

Pan-Trust cardiology at ULHT provides comprehensive cardiac services for the county for a population of around 750,000. This includes both a busy 24/7 PPCI and PCI service and a well-established Cardiac MRI service. The successful candidate would join 7 Interventional Cardiology, 8 non-interventional Cardiology colleagues, an Associate Specialist, Staff Cardiologist and 3 Nurse Consultants in Cardiology across the Trust. There is a nurse-led in-patient heart failure service on both the Lincoln and Pilgrim hospital sites and good links to the community heart failure team.

The Complex Device service at ULHT started in October 2018 and we have performed over 150 implants in the last 12 months with one device consultant. The purpose of this post is to support this rapidly expanding service.

About us

We are one of the largest Trusts in the UK and provide a comprehensive range of health services to the local population. With its open spaces and plenty of green countryside, Lincolnshire remains largely unspoiled with less hustle and bustle that grips so much of the rest of the county. It remains a place where people can live and work in comfort. Lincoln scores highly when it comes to education from nursery through to secondary school and has a growing university culture. In your free time there are many places of interest to visit in Lincolnshire with motor racing at Cadwell Park, lakes for sailing, some of the best coarse fishing in the course and horse racing at Market Rasen, not to mention Lincoln Cathedral and Castle, and the food balance of traditional eateries throughout the county.

For more information on what it's like to live and work in Lincolnshire please see the link below.

We offer the following unique only to Lincolnshire

Direct links to the new £21 million Lincoln Medical School via Lincoln University

The facility includes:

• 2 x 120 capacity lecture theatres
• Seminar space
• Caf and social learning space
• Library, Science Library and Project Library
• Anatomy Suite and Clinical Skills Suite
• The entire building is designed to meet BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method)

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

If you are considering making the move give us a call, we are more than happy to arrange a visit and show you what we have to offer.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCP (UK) or equivalent
• Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practice

Desirable

• MD or PhD

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Wide experience in general Cardiology and acute assessment environment, in particular the management of patients with heart failure / accreditation
• Substantial experience of working in clinical cardiology in a UK setting

Desirable

• Additional subspecialty interest in Cardiac Imaging
• Interest / Experience in Inherited Cardiac Conditions

Management & Administrative

Essential

• Ability to manage and lead junior medical staff
• Evidence of working effectively as a part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to initiate and lead service developments.
• Willingness to be involved in departmental management
• Evidence of initiating, progressing and completing audit
• Direct and extensive working knowledge of the UK National Health Service

Desirable

• Completed basic training in management skills

Audit

Essential

• Commitment to an understanding of the principles of audit.
• Experience in organisation and undertaking audit.

Desirable

• Publication of audit and service improvement projects, locally and nationally.

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