Locum Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist (Heart Failure & Transplant)

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee in Paediatric Cardiology and shown a commitment to advanced heart failure (including ventricular assist devices) and transplant during their training and worked units delivering this subspecialty. The candidate will be able to run a busy general paediatric cardiology on call as well as transplant on call. The candidate will demonstrate an ability to assess children with end stage heart failure from all causes for high-risk conventional surgery, mechanical support and cardiac transplant. The candidate will be keen to be integrated into all aspects of the department and show enthusiasm to develop the advanced heart failure management service in children. It is envisaged that the role will include a commitment to working with other paediatric cardiac centres, consolidating referral pathways, and provision of virtual and face to face clinics with those centres. In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit., To work with the current team of consultants to provide tertiary cardiac care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the Northern region and patients referred from other regions for ongoing management. To work within the paediatric heart failure / transplant team to provide and develop this service for regional/ supra regional patients referred for advanced heart failure management. For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.