Job overview
Trust Doctor (eqv to ST7+) in Aortovascular Endovascular
The Aor tic fellowship will be a 12 month programme where an individual will be involved in both research and clinical duties including the day to day management of aortic patients at St. Bartholomew’s Trust. This will include ward and ITU management, participation in theatre, outpatient department patient management and decision making/graft planning with the Aortic team. This will not include on-call or after hours duties. The aortic fellows will be expected to bring a working knowledge of advanced aortic techniques to be able to participate in advanced cases. Meaningful experience in complex endovascular repair is mandatory.
The aortic fellows will be involved in research with the aortic team, and will be expected to have at least one project that is submitted and presented at an international level, and results in a peer reviewed publication. The project will be based on topics involving care of the aortic patient, genetics of aortic disease, imaging aortic patients, or other topics that might be of interest to the fellow. This will be discussed prior to starting the post so that preparations can be made for the fellow to proceed with this research. Protected nonclinical time will be ensured. This will be organized as a block or one day per week depending on the arrangement with each fellow.
Main duties of the job
In designing this fellowship, we aim to attract individuals who have completed or are near completion of vascular or cardiac surgical/anaesthetic training. Ideally, they should be licenced to, or eligible to, practice medicine in the UK, but this designation can be pending at the time of starting the fellowship depending on the overall skillset of the applicant. The Surgical candidate should be able to demonstrate basic endovascular skills and ideally be have meaningful experience with advanced aortic endovascular techniques.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Aortic Team in North East London is built on a foundation of evidence and expertise to identify, investigate, and treat disease of the whole aorta using a patient-centred approach, committed to ongoing inquiry and excellence. We are creating a new model of Aortic Care to lead the field in the treatment of aortic disease, by combining surgical expertise in a unified environment not common in the United Kingdom. This includes the complementary work of both open and endovascular surgery at a national centre of excellence in complex aortic disease. This fellowship is primarily for Endovascular Expertise.
The goal of the aortic fellowship will be to fulfill our mission of education by providing well-qualified individuals with a 1 year intensive experience in the care of the patient with aortic disease in an academic setting, using both open and endovascular techniques. This will have both complementary clinical and research components, and be in the disciplines of both Vascular and Cardiac Surgery.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Finished vascular surgery training
2. MSC or advanced research qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Basic endovascular skills
4. Complex endovascular skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. Details of complex endovascular repair
Skills
Essential criteria
6. Catheter and wire skills
7. Should be able to do an EVAR independantly and demonstrate case series
Other
Essential criteria
8. Team player able to develop a culture that values colleagues and enables them to engage in problem solving and decision making
9. Provides a role model for clinical leaders