Locum Consultant Cardiologist: Heart Transplantation

We are seeking a Locum Consultant Cardiologist in Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplantation.

You will work within a highly skilled and collaborative Cardiothoracic Transplant team, contributing to a wide range of specialist services including advanced heart failure, short and longer-term mechanical circulatory support, peri-operative medicine, intensive care medicine and immediate and life-long post heart transplant care including management of complex co-morbid patients.

The role offers opportunities to shape your job plan, pursue specialist interests, and collaborate with experts from across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus -- home to Cambridge University Hospitals, Cancer Research UK, AstraZeneca, and the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute., Care of transplant patients in conjunction with the other transplant physicians throughout the assessment process, immediate post-transplant care and life long follow-up.

Provide ward and intensive care management for patients with advanced heart failure, heart transplant recipients and patients supported on MCS. Provide cover for lung transplant patients during on-call weekends.

To ensure that national heart failure and transplant standards are maintained and developed through clinical audit, evidence-based practice and appraisal.

Contribute to the training of junior doctors in accordance with standards required by the Royal Colleges, Postgraduate Dean and hospital.

Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development.

6. Expand Advanced Heart Failure, MCS and Transplant-related research as part of an agreed research plan.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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