Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Locum Consultant to join our Cardiology Team



This post is for a Locum Consultant in Cardiology with a subspeciality interest in heart failure that gives the opportunity to help developing the heart failure service in the trust. The department is seeking a full-time 12-month fixed term Locum Consultant Cardiologist with additional weekend on-call 0.5 PA. The vacancy will offer an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.



Suitable candidate will be supported to develop and maintain their subspecialty skills.



The work schedule will be based on a standard 40-hour contract of 10 Programmed Activities (PA's), with 7.5 clinical sessions. (a minimum of 2 of these are non-direct clinical: nDCC, i.e., admin, MDT, M & M etc).

There will therefore be 2.5 SPAs, including 1.5 for revalidation and 1 to be developed over the first 6 months of the post appointment.

Additional 0.5 PA is added for contribution to weekend Rota (currently 1:10). Out of hours work outside weekends ward rounds is mainly that of telephone advice with very infrequent hospital attendance. Current compensation for this element is 5%.

The clinical timetable has been designed to attract the best candidates to this Trust. It is however; open to discussion and alteration with the aims of being in the best interests of the service and meeting individual needs:

The exact allocations for consultant's sub-specialty interests and invasive cardiology will be arranged for each consultant according to competencies and coordinated with further new sessions created as required.



Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.



We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

Acute Care



Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.



Primary Care



Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.



Community Services



Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.



Specialist Regional Services



We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme



The post holder will take an equal share of the cardiology ward inpatient beds on a rotational basis.

During CCU usual fixed commitments will be cancelled or covered by another consultant cardiologist.

During the cardiologist on call week, the consultant cardiologists undertake daily ward rounds on the CCU including weekends and provide out-of-hours consultant cover the phone with a frequency of 1 in 10 weeks.

In addition to CCU ward rounds the on-call consultant see inpatients consultation referrals from other wards.

On call commitments also involve weekend attendance to the cardiology ward to post-take new patients and review patients who requires senior review from previous handover.

The post holder will provide out of hours 5pm-9 am normal days and all weekends advice to the on-call team. Telephone advice is not frequent based on our experience and rarely require attendance to hospital out of hours, for example for temporary pacing wire insertion.

In addition to 0.5PA for weekend ward rounds a supplement of 5% is paid for on call availability. They are not involved in the General Medicine on call rota. There is no commitment to General Internal Medicine on call or GIM post take ward rounds.