Consultant Cardiologist with an interest in complex devices (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant) [...]

Consultant Cardiologist with an interest in complex devices (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant) - Medical and Dental - Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust – High Wycombe, South East

A full-time (10 PA) post as a consultant cardiologist with a specialist interest in complex implantable devices and imaging is available at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. The post will be based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Wycombe Hospital. The successful candidate will join a consultant workforce of other substantive consultants and two visiting substantive consultants. The position comes with secretarial support.

The consultant will be expected to provide bradycardia pacing internal cover during working hours if required on non-lab days and device management advice to the physiology team.

The consultant will see patients in an outpatient clinic as well as wards.

The consultant will have educational duties including supporting the cardiac rehabilitation and virtual ward teams.

The consultant will have electronic referral service duties (advice and guidance, triage).

The on-call rota is 1:8 with internal cover starting at 1800-0800. The expectation is that the consultant should be available to provide telephone advice and to return to the hospital within 40 minutes if required.

At weekends, on-call begins 1800 on Friday through to 0800 Monday. A full cardiology ward round is expected on Saturday with a morning review of any acute admissions on Sunday.