An opportunity has arisen to appoint a Locum Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in Coronary Intervention to join our Cardiology team based at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals and University Hospitals of North Midlands. You will be supported by a team of junior doctors (of training and non-training grades), specialist nurses, advanced practitioners, nurses, therapists, and in reach of specialists across the hospitals.
The post involves working across two sites, providing general cardiology at Shrewsbury and Telford and coronary intervention at the University Hospitals of the North Midlands (UHNM), with an on-call commitment on the primary PCI rota. This post brings the opportunity to work collaboratively between secondary and tertiary care, with two days per week spent on site at UHNM. There is an expectation that the post holder will support the joint site MDT for both cardiology and cardiothoracic cases and be integral to ongoing service developments between both sites.
1. Diagnosing and treating a wide spectrum of cardiological problems.
2. Provide continued care both in the inpatient and outpatient setting for this patient group at both Trusts.
3. Supporting a complex patient MDT.
4. Managing patients with coronary artery disease including providing coronary intervention.
5. On call commitment at UHNM to Primary PCI rota (1/10 on call commitment).
6. Supervision of Higher Specialty Trainees in Internal Medicine, IMT stage one trainees and Clinical fellows working towards CESR in GIM.
7. To have excellent team-working skills with the abilities and professional attitude to work well in a multi-professional team.
8. To deliver clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locally with clinical teams and commissioners.
9. To follow patients throughout their clinical pathways.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) - all beautiful and unique.
Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes' drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.
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