Consultant Cardiologist - Newport, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

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Newport, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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We are recruiting fora Consultant Cardiologistwho wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS.

You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients and staff receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values areCompassion,Accountable,Respect andEveryone counts.

Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

To share in the provision of a comprehensive inpatient and outpatient cardiology service including; supervision of inpatients on CCU and stepdown ward, with ward rounds as in Job Plan.
Contribution to the permanent pacing service, including implantation of new pacemaker systems and loop recorders, elective generator replacements and medical supervision of the technicianled device followup clinics.
Assessment of inpatients referred by other medical and surgical teams, including Medical Admissions Unit, Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department.
Clinical supervision of cardiac physiology staff and sharing overriding consultant responsibility for quality of reporting of noninvasive cardiac tests.
Provide consultant reporting of tests to other medical and surgical teams.
Liaison with anaesthetic and surgical colleagues for preoperative cardiac assessments, on request.
Develop subspecialty interest, as agreed with Cardiology Colleagues and Clinical Director.
Provision of outpatient clinics, including Rapid Access Chest Pain and Heart Failure clinics, as agreed in Job Plan, with appropriate investigation, followup and onward referral.
Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England.

We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde.

We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes.

London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Please note the Job Description for this role is pending Royal College Approval*This new 10 PA post Consultant Cardiologist will work alongside our Consultant Cardiologist and will join our team of Consultant Physicians of other General Medicine Services.

The post holder will be a key member of the Cardiology Department at St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight.

There will also be opportunity for the post holder to work at Portsmouth Hospital Trust if the individual wishes to do so.

The post holder will be responsible for providing outpatient and inpatient Cardiology services and if appropriately qualified/accredited in general medicine, to include a regular 1 in 11 commitments to the medical on-call rota.

The post will be based at St. Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight.

The Cardiology Service

Cardiology inpatient care at St Mary's revolves around the Coronary Care Unit and attached Stepdown ward, which are adjacent to the Cardiology Department.

Facilities are six acute beds, including a fully equipped side room and GE Medical central monitoring facilities. There is a dedicated pacing theatre/procedures room, with a Siemens C-arm image intensifier. The Stepdown ward has 12 beds, four of which are individual side rooms.

St Mary's offers a full range of non-invasive investigations on-site including transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, ambulatory ECG and BP monitoring, Cardiomemo and implantable loop recorders.

Diagnostic coronary angiography is undertaken at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.

A primary angioplasty service is also provided in Portsmouth for Isle of Wight patients, who are usually transferred directly by helicopter from point of presentation to the catheter laboratory during flying hours.

A well-established permanent pacing service is in place at St Mary's, Isle of Wight,