Locum Consultant in Cardiology (Specialist Interest in Cardiac MRI) inWakefield inWakefield PUBLISHED TUE 22 OCT 2024

Our Cardiology team is made up of a wide range of enthusiastic and passionate individuals including 14 consultants, 3 Specialty Doctors, 4 Specialty Registrars, 3 core trainees and 3 Foundation trainees. We have invaluable support from a team of specialist nurses based both in our trust and in the community.

We invite applications for consultants in cardiology with a specialist interest and formal training in CMR (Cardiac Magnetic Resonance). An interest in an additional non-invasive subspecialty, or general medicine would also be welcomed.

Our vision is to deliver patient centred, accessible and integrated services, as seamlessly as possible with primary care. With 11 Coronary Care and 26 Cardiology beds, new diagnostic facilities, and access to a full range of non-invasive and invasive cardiac facilities our team has access to exceptional, modern facilities as well as general imaging, including TTE and TOE, CTCA, CMRI (including stress MR) and Interventional radiology services. We have a fully established bradycardia pacing, complex device, and PCI service (excluding PPCI provided in the Tertiary centre). We have an established Nurse-led heart failure service with community integration.

The main duties of the post will include:

Providing, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, an acute cardiology service to the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Inpatient cardiology work including the 11 bedded CCU and 28 bedded cardiology ward

Urgent and Emergency Care duties for cardiology at Pinderfields out of hours is currently assessed as 0.45PA per week, with local weekday on-calls (1:12), and weekend on-calls (1:10). This equates to an 3% availability supplement

The Department runs 2 cardiologist of the week rotas on a 1 in 13 basis;

o One for the 11 bedded CCU (which includes accepting referrals from the Acute Admissions Unit and from inpatients elsewhere in the hospital)

One for the 28 bedded cardiology ward.

Participate in and help further develop the cardiac MRI service. A second non-invasive subspecialty, (which can include general internal medicine) is welcomed.

The CMR service currently scans about 1000 patients per year including stress perfusion, inpatients, and cardio-oncology surveillance. Demand for CMR continues to increase and we anticipate this number will continue to grow. We scan across all three sites (Pontefract, Pinderfields and Dewsbury). Ideally the successful candidate would have level 2 or 3 CMR reporting experience and be able to supervise and report at least one list per week.

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This post is offered on a full time (10 PA) basis although less than full time applications will be considered.

Duties will be based primarily on our Wakefield (Pinderfields) site although all our medical staff are involved in delivering care to patients on all our three sites (Pinderfields General Hospital, Pontefract General Hospital and Dewsbury District Hospital). The main duties of the post will include:

Providing, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, an acute cardiology service to the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Inpatient cardiology work including the 11 bedded CCU and 28 bedded cardiology ward

Urgent and Emergency Care duties for cardiology at Pinderfields out of hours is currently assessed as 0.45PA per week, with local weekday on-calls (1:12), and weekend on-calls (1:10). This equates to an 3% availability supplement

The Department runs 2 cardiologist of the week rotas on a 1 in 13 basis;

One for the 11 bedded CCU (which includes accepting referrals from the Acute Admissions Unit and from inpatients elsewhere in the hospital)

One for the 28 bedded cardiology ward.

Participate in and help further develop the cardiac MRI service. A second non-invasive subspecialty, (which can include general internal medicine) is welcomed.

The CMR service currently scans about 1000 patients per year including stress perfusion, inpatients, and cardio-oncology surveillance. Demand for CMR continues to increase and we anticipate this number will continue to grow. We scan across all three sites (Pontefract, Pinderfields and Dewsbury). Ideally the successful candidate would have level 2 or 3 CMR reporting experience and be able to supervise and report at least one list per week.

Participate in outpatients (general and specialist) including providing advice to primary care colleagues via e-consultation on our shared care referral pathway.

Supervision and teaching of the junior staff (SPA time allocated according to the roles commissioned)

Supporting the development of the cardiology services in line with developing local and national requirements (with time allocated according to role and requirement)

Contributing to the departments audit and research portfolio (time according to role commissioned)

Administrative duties, for which appropriate Consultant office space and secretarial support and IT facilities are provided