Job Description

Provision of Interventional Paediatric and Adult Cardiology Services within the Hospital with responsibility for the prevention, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of illness within the Congenital Cardiology department. Ward and on-call work including care of Paediatric Cardiology inpatients. Close working with medical, nursing and allied health professionals to assist in providing high quality patient care. The post holder will be given an educational supervisor from within the interventional cardiology consultant team.



They will also be accountable to Dr Dominic Hares as clinical supervisor and as clinical training lead of the department. Induction: The candidate will undergo hospital induction immediately on taking up the post. Further local induction to the ward and addressing issues specific to the role will be provided following completion of the hospital induction. Orientation: The successful candidate will undergo a period of orientation.



This will include observing consultants in clinic and in the cardiac catheter lab. Candidates will take clinical responsibilities and be placed on the on call rota only after the supervising consultant deems them competent to do so. To be on the cardiac arrest rota, the candidate will need to have received APLS/EPLS certification. The period of orientation will generally be for a period of up to 4 weeks (although given the level of applicant experience expected for this role, it is likely to be much shorter than this).



This will be decided by the educational supervisor and departmental clinical lead. The post holder should meet with the educational supervisor to discuss personal development plans within the first two weeks of commencing the post. Clinical: The Interventional Training Fellow will be responsible, together with SpR colleagues, for both inpatient and outpatient work. 1.

Interventional Cardiology:

The post holder will be expected to prepare cases for the cardiac catheter lab, including involvement in the planning of intervention, consent of patients and their family for the procedure, performing the procedure under appropriate supervision and all appropriate post procedure review and follow-up. These duties will all be supervised by a designated interventional consultant cardiologist. 2. Inpatient: The post holder will be expected to attend consultant ward rounds (up to 5 / week during planned ward service weeks) and will perform personal ward rounds on the patients admitted on call under the supervising consultant(s).

3. Outpatient:

The post holder will perform 1 interventional cardiology clinics / week under supervision. They will discuss patients seen in clinic with the supervising consultant. 4.

On call rota:

The post holder will be on call rota 1:7 non-resident, Administration Duties: These include responsibility for inpatient discharge summaries, outpatient letters etc and the management of other resident medical staff on the team.