Junior Clinical Fellow in Cardiology
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
CQC: Requires improvementRotherham
Salary
£54,499 – £54,499
Posted
5 days ago
About the role
You will join a well-established cardiology unit within a tailor made cardiology suite including purpose built cardiac catheterisation laboratory. We have an 8 bed coronary care unit, 16 general cardiology beds, and a 6 bed cardiology day ward.
You will join a team of 6 consultant cardiologists with varying subspecialty interests including imaging, cardiac device therapy, and coronary intervention (PCI procedures are undertaken at Sheffield). We also have visiting consultants undertaking complex device implantation at Rotherham from the regional network. Local procedures include diagnostic left and right heart catheterisation, simple and complex cardiac device implantation, transthoracic echo, transoesophaegeal echo, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and cardiac CT imaging.
Other medical team members include two speciality doctors, two Cardiology SpR posts with training numbers, a foundation year doctor, three resident doctors in training, a part-time hospital practitioner in cardiology, a consultant cardiac clinician scientist, and a consultant radiologist with interest in cardiac imaging. We are supported by a hospital based heart failure nurse, arrhythmia nurse, an advanced nurse practitioner, and a team of highly specialised cardiac physiologists, echo-sonographers and ECG technicians. There is further team of cardiac specialist nurses and a cardiac physiotherapist based in the community for heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation.