24 Oct
Royal Brompton hospital
London
Main area
CARDIOLOGY
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (With possibility of further extensions)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
196-MED4606
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Brompton Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£70,425 Per Annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/11/2024 23:59
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve,
working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners,
one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success.
We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Job Summary
To work alongside the heart failure team and existing specialist registrars in the Heart Division. To undertake clinical work in the heart failure and Cardiology department. Clinical activity will include heart failure outpatient and inpatient care and when on call for general cardiology. There is opportunity to perform research and audit.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities
To be part of the cardiology service at Royal Brompton Hospital in collaboration with medical and surgical colleagues and other departments and services.
Participate in new patient and follow-up consultant-led outpatient clinics mainly focused on heart failure
Provide inpatient services to cardiology patients particularly for heart failure patients
Participate in an on-call rota covering inpatient activity and emergency work.
Supervise and train junior staff allocated to cardiology.
To work as a full member of the multi-disciplinary heart failure team, including participation in the rota and the attendance and presentation at weekly MDTs and meetings.
To undertake regular ward rounds to ensure effective management during the in-patient stay and early discharge of patients whenever possible.
Participate in audit within the department.
Participate fully in the service and training programme of the clinical group.
Perform routine transthoracic echocardiography and perform and interpret echocardiograms. There is opportunity to learn and perform trans-oesophageal echocardiography
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions,
offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
To be part of the cardiology service at Royal Brompton Hospital in collaboration with medical and surgical colleagues and other departments and services.
Participate in new patient and follow-up consultant-led outpatient clinics mainly focused on heart failure
Provide inpatient services to cardiology patients particularly for heart failure patients
Participate in an on-call rota covering inpatient activity and emergency work.
Supervise and train junior staff allocated to cardiology.
To work as a full member of the multi-disciplinary heart failure team, including participation in the rota and the attendance and presentation at weekly MDTs and meetings.
To undertake regular ward rounds to ensure effective management during the in-patient stay and early discharge of patients whenever possible.
Participate in audit within the department.
Participate fully in the service and training programme of the clinical group.
Perform routine transthoracic echocardiography and perform and interpret echocardiograms. There is opportunity to learn and perform trans-oesophageal echocardiography
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.
Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now."
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.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Ali Ahmed Job title Cardiology Deputy Service Manager Email address **********@rbht.nhs.uk
▶️ Senior Clinical Fellow in Heart Failure- Royal Brompton Hospital
🖊️ Royal Brompton hospital
📍 London