Trust Doctor (eqv to ST7+) in Structural Heart Intervention

The post is ideally suited to an adult congenital heart or interventional cardiology trainee who has already gained significant experience in cardiac catheterisation and interventional cardiology and wishes to supplement this training with a further period of dedicated training in structural heart intervention. MRCP (or equivalent) is essential. The successful candidate can expect to receive first operator training in many of these procedures, with additional exposure to novel and experimental technologies and techniques.

The main responsibilities of this post are:

1) To work as part of a team to support all the Structural Heart Intervention Program activities, including outpatient clinics, ward rounds, invasive procedures and multidisciplinary team meetings.

2) Subject to competency assessment, the successful candidate will receive training in all relevant interventional procedures.

The post will be based at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. The Structural Heart Intervention Program at the Barts Heart Centre is the largest in the UK, with more than 700 interventions per year, and access to many cutting-edge technologies. For the successful candidate, this is an exciting opportunity to receive advanced first-operator training in all aspects of structural heart intervention, including TAVI, mitral and tricuspid interventions, other valvular interventions, PFO/ASD closure, and the treatment of complex congenital heart defects. There will be an expectation that the successful candidate makes a significant contribution to the department's audit and research efforts., Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

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