Consultant in Cardiology

The Department This post is for a full-time Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in Cardiac Imaging/Echocardiography. 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, one imaging specialists, one heart failure specialist, 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.
**The primary clinical responsibilities of the post-holder are**: -To take a leadership role in providing Echocardiography and Transoesophageal Echocardiogrophy services at the Trust. -To have the opportunity to perform Dobutmaine Stress Echocardiography, Cardiac CT or Cardiac MRI. -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.