Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Transplant Cardiology

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Main area: Transplant, Cardiology
Grade: MT04
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week (1 in 5 on-call)
Job ref: 349-WTWA-

Site: Wythenshawe Hospital
Town: Wythenshawe
Salary: £61,825 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/04/:59

Job overview

This post can be tailored to suit either:

• Senior trainees wanting specialist experience of advanced heart failure prior to applying for a consultant post, OR
• More junior doctors who have completed general medical training (or equivalent experience) and wish to develop unique skills and experience in order to pursue a career in cardiology.

This is a unique job that offers experience in managing patients with cardiogenic shock, end-stage chronic heart failure, heart transplantation, and ventricular assist devices.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical assistance to the current team, with the main focus on supporting the heart program under the supervision of Dr. Steve Shaw, Dr. Jacqueline Hooper, and Dr. Paul Callan.

You will attend the heart failure clinic with supervision of cardiopulmonary exercise tests, the transplant outpatient clinic, VAD outpatient clinic, and the catheter lab for invasive haemodynamic assessments.

You will be required to help with inpatient management on the wards through dedicated ward rounds, performing inpatient transthoracic echos, central line insertions, and coordinating the admission of assessment patients - both acutely unwell HF patients and chronic stable HF patients.

During on-calls, you will be responsible for dealing with inpatients on the transplant ward, including lung transplant patients, as we run a cross-cover service out of hours.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan, which will outline how MFT continues to make healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. To be more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at .

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

• GMC Registration
• Membership to Royal College of Physicians
• General medical training, with exposure to Cardiology
• Able to work and communicate with a multidisciplinary team
• Experience in echocardiography
• Experience in cardiac catheterisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.