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Senior Clinical Fellow in Adult Cardiomyopathy

Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London
Salary
£51,970 to £53,132 a year .
Closing date
1 Jun 2023

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Job summary

Job title: Senior Clinical Fellow in Adult Cardiomyopathy

Location: Royal Brompton Hospital

Job Summary

This is a 12-month post is for a Clinical Fellow working in Adult Cardiomyopathy (40 hours per week) within Inherited Cardiac Conditions (ICCs). The post-holder will contribute to the cardiomyopathy service across the full range of conditions.

Location

This is a Trust appointment working at both Royal Brompton Hospital (6 sessions) and Harefield Hospital (4 sessions) and is created in order to support rapidly expanding clinical services in Cardiomyopathy. In addition, the Trust is in a state of transition, and staff may in the future have to change their main base of operation. The post holder may be required to work at any of the Trust's sites, and any associated sites, as required.

Main duties of the job

Professional and Clinical Duties of the Post

The post is full time, with a provisional job plan outlined in appendix 1.

The principal role of this post is to provide clinical care of patients with adult cardiomyopathy (outpatients).

To provide care to both inpatients and out-patients to ensure that patients are provided with the highest possible standard of diagnosis, treatment and care in the most effective and timely way.

The post holder will train and manage junior medical staff and research fellows working within ICCs, to ensure high standards of clinical practice and efficient use of resources.

Examples of training and service development opportunities include those in neuromuscular or metabolic disease, sports cardiology, and inflammatory or infiltrative heart muscle disease.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy's and St Thomas' in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. Weprovide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.

Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Professional and Clinical Duties of the Post

The post is full time, with a provisional job plan outlined in appendix 1.

The principal role of this post is to provide clinical care of patients with adult cardiomyopathy (outpatients).

To provide care to both inpatients and out-patients to ensure that patients are provided with the highest possible standard of diagnosis, treatment and care in the most effective and timely way.

The post holder will train and manage junior medical staff and research fellows working within ICCs, to ensure high standards of clinical practice and efficient use of resources.

Examples of training and service development opportunities include those in neuromuscular or metabolic disease, sports cardiology, and inflammatory or infiltrative heart muscle disease.

Research and Audit Responsibilities

The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust along with Imperial College School of Medicine at the National Heart & Lung Institute undertake research of the highest quality in heart and lung disease, which is of relevance to patient care and public policy. Further information about the research activities in the Trust can be found on http://www2.rbht.nhs.uk/rd .

The applicant will have experience and enthusiasm in pursuing research. This post can be considered at a later phase to provide the applicant with time available for research activities. The post holder will be given the opportunity to develop and pursue research of a high calibre to meet the Trust objectives. Implicit in this is the need to attract peer-reviewed grants and to contribute significantly to the scientific literature.

No research project can commence until it has been properly costed and agreed by both the Research Office and an appropriate Clinical Director, nor, for a project involving patients, without Ethics Committee approval.

The post holder will actively conduct/ participate in audits related to both clinical and non-clinical aspect of the work and participate in Hospital audit programmes, including mortality meetings.

Teaching

Teaching junior staff working directly with him/her is part of the responsibilities of the post-holder.

Administration

The applicant will need to have the necessary skills in time management and administration related to the clinical work.

Office Accommodation and Secretarial Support

Office accommodation and secretarial support will be provided

Computer and IT support will be available.

Staff Appraisal & Revalidation

The Trust approach is based on the principle that appraisal and revalidation is an essential part of good practice in managing people. It enables the organisation to ensure employees are able to assist in meeting organisational aims through the process of managing performance and identification of development needs. It also gives staff the opportunity to discuss their performance and development needs with their manager and ensures that they are clear about what they are trying to achieve both in their current role and for the future.

The organisation therefore has a basic requirement of such good practice, which can be audited to ensure that it is achieved. This standard is outline below:

Managers will meet with staff they directly manage, at least once per year on a formal basis, with informal progress reviews at least every six months.

A record of the discussions will be made using the online Equniti Appraisal Software.

There is a clear and current agreement about the job plan the employee is expected to do covering the purpose, aims, responsibilities and tasks. Every member of staff will have work-based objectives which link to organisational standards and the business plan of their directorate/department.

Every employee should have a Personal Development Plan (PDP) outlining short and long-term learning and development aims and actions to meet these. The Head of Department, who will also ensure fairness and consistency, will appropriately monitor appraisal to ensure all staff in their area are having an appraisal. The Human Resource department will be responsible for monitoring compliance across the Trust. All staff who carry out appraisal will be given support and training as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MRCP, or equivalent


Experience

Essential

  • Considerable experience in cardiomyopathy clinical services
  • Cardiac imaging
  • Understanding of basic genetic test results


Desirable

  • Advanced cardiac imaging
  • Understanding of advanced genetic testing
  • Participation in a recognised scheme of continuing medical education
  • Research experience
  • Teaching experience
  • Advanced life support training


Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

  • Good knowledge of the spectrum of cardiological disease
  • Managing patients with progressive chronic cardiac disease
  • Good interpersonal and communications skills in line with the Trust's Core Behaviours (see appendix 2)
  • IT skills and computer literacy


Desirable

  • Ability to conduct research and teaching


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196-RBH-SCF-ACM-0523

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