Consultant in Cardiologist - Specialist in Heart Failure

Consultant in Cardiologist - Specialist in Heart Failure

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is excited to invite applications for an enthusiastic and motivated Consultant Cardiologist with a special interest in Heart Failure. You will join a dedicated team of five cardiology consultants, working within a dynamic and expanding department that prioritizes innovation and patient-centered care.

As part of a well-established regional model of care, Rotherham has been commissioned as the second centre for complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up in South Yorkshire. Our Cath lab regularly collaborates with visiting consultants from across the region, including Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, ensuring access to the latest expertise and shared learning.

In this role, you will take the lead in shaping and developing our heart failure service, working closely with a skilled multidisciplinary team. You will have the opportunity to drive service improvement and innovation, making a real impact on patient outcomes. Additionally, the post offers flexible working arrangements and a supportive, forward-thinking environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance.

If you are passionate about delivering high-quality cardiology care and contributing to the development of services, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be fully supported by the Cardiology consultants within their area and will work closely with the on call medical team and Heart Failure nursing team.

Friendly and dedicated nursing colleagues will also support new colleagues throughout their time at the Trust.

The department offers the opportunity to gain excellent experience within the Cardiology service, the management of a wide case mix of acute cardiac admissions across ward A1, Coronary Care Unit (CCU) and the Cardiac Catheter Suite (CCS).

You will work within an inpatient bed base over 2 wards, including a CCU, which are home to friendly and engaged nursing teams. You will be supported by 5 consultant colleagues, 2 Specialty Doctors, 1 Higher Level trainees, 5 Resident doctors, an advanced nurse practitioner, a clinician scientist, heart failure and arrhythmia nurse specialists, and highly trained physiologists.

About us

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham.

As a Trust we are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a place to work? and were one of the most improved for staff engagement overall.

But dont just take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making.

All of our 5,100 colleagues are key to our improvement journey and we are continuing to improve our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together. If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us on our journey to excellence.

All Consultant interviews will be performed in person (face to face). If there are any exceptional circumstances as to why a candidate cannot attend in person then a possible virtual interview will be considered by the Executive panel but is not guaranteed.

Job responsibilities

The Department

This post is for a full-time Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in Heart Failure.

The post will be based mainly at Rotherham General Hospital. You will join a well-established Cardiology unit with the opportunity to develop and deliver state of the art services in a tailor made Cardiology suite including purpose built catheterisation laboratory. We have a recently installed state of the art Philips Azurion C12 cardiac catheterisation laboratory dedicated for Cardiology. The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has been commissioned as the second centre for complex cardiac device implantation and follow-up in South Yorkshire as part of a regional model of care in contractual agreement with Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 2018.

The precise job plan of this post will be tailored to the skills of the applicant alongside the needs of the Department. You will be joining a team of five other Consultant Cardiologists, including one with sub-specialty interest in cardiac device therapy, two imaging specialists, one interventional cardiologist and one general cardiologist.

We also have visiting Consultants undertaking complex device implantation at Rotherham from the regional network. The resident Cardiology doctor team also includes two speciality doctors, one Higher Level trainee from the South Yorkshire and Humber training programme, a part-time hospital practitioner, and 4-5 resident doctors plus a Consultant radiologist with specialist interest in cardiac imaging. A large dedicated team of Cardiology nurses, nurse specialists and highly skilled cardiac physiologists supports the department.

Locally available imaging includes myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, CT coronary angiography and echocardiography/TOE/Dobutamine stress echo service. Our echocardiography department provides full range of service with four machines, including two Philips ie33 and one new Philips Epiq 5 with 3D TTE and TOE.

The Cardiology Suite at Rotherham Hospital, adjacent to the 8 bedded Coronary Care Unit, comprises a dedicated cardiac day case ward, state of the art catheterisation/pacing laboratory, echocardiography rooms, rapid access chest pain clinics, exercise treadmill testing, tilt-table testing and full ambulatory ECG monitoring fitting and analysis, as well as consultant offices and secretarial support. Nearby to the main cardiology suite is a brand new Cardiac Devices Suite from which a physiologist-led loop recorder service is run, and permanent pacemaker, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and internal cardioverter defibrillator patients are pre-assessed and followedup with full optimisation service.

The Department has close links with other cardiovascular departments in Sheffield and holds a fortnightly MDT meeting with cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology and weekly cardiac rhythm management MDT with the tertiary centre.

There is no commitment to General Medical on-call. There are plans for local Cardiology weekend services to provide specialist review of cardiology inpatients on CCU and Cardiology wards as well as other Medical wards.

For interested candidates there is the opportunity to develop research interest and time for this can be factored into your job plan. We have a successful portfolio of research studies within the cardiology unit supported by a research nurse from the Trust R&D Department.

The Post

Consultant Cardiologist with an Interest in Heart Failure, this is a full time post. The primary clinical responsibilities of the post-holder are:

To take a leadership role in providing care for Heart failure patients including Heart failure clinics and patients been admitted through emergency department with Heart failure.

To work closely with the TRFT Heart Failure nurses and community in providing excellent patient care

To be part of future plans in implementing consultant of the week model and weekend ward cover.

To have the opportunity to be part of the Cath Lab activity for Inpatients and outpatients procedures which will include angiograms and pacemakers.

Person Specification Education and Teaching

• Proven ability to teach and train others

Ability and Skills

• Specific skills required to undertake the role above those required to achieve CCT

Research and Audit

• Evidence of audit and the implementation of change following the audit
• Relevant research published in peer review journal

Qualifications

• Full registration and a licence to practise with the GMC
• Please confirm your GMC Registration number
• On specialist register or eligible to be included on the Specialist register - CCT / CESR expected within 6 months of interview date

Experience

• Experience in heart failure
• Angiogram / pacemaker

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.