TAVI Clinical Fellow in Cardiology (Basé à London)

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

Main area TAVI Clinical Fellow in Cardiology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow Contract Fixed term: 12 months (On Call Commitment) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (on call commitment) Job ref 213-CAX-7080823

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Kings College Hospital Town London Salary £61,825 - £70,425 per annum Plus London allowances Salary period Yearly Closing 31/03/2025 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

The TAVI fellow will be responsible for the medical co-ordination of the percutaneous valve programme and will work closely with the two TAVI Clinical Nurse Specialists. This will involve arranging admissions for assessment/treatment, attending outpatient clinics in which these patients are assessed and seeing patients daily on the ward. The Fellow will be trained in TAVI and TEER procedures according to their level of expertise. The successful appointee will also be expected to co-ordinate and perform research into TAVI and structural heart disease and to lead on pre-defined studies on this subject. We would anticipate that this will result in presentations at national/international meetings and peer-reviewed papers. The TAVI fellow will maintain/develop the detailed database which already exists on these patients.

Main duties of the job

The TAVI fellow will also be involved in coronary intervention and will have some training in PCI during the tenure of the post. He/she will undertake PCI lists with consultants and gain experience in complex PCI and adjunctive technology. The appointee will be expected to contribute to PCI-based research. This will involve data collection, provision of information to patients, acquisition of informed consent and assisting during research study cases. In this capacity, the fellow will become familiar with data acquired with IVUS, virtual histology, OCT, pressure wire and quantitative coronary angiography.

Working for our organisation

King’s Health Partners is a pioneering collaboration between King’s College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. This unique combination brings together one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. The driving purpose behind King’s Health Partners is to continually seek and bring about swifter and more effective improvements in health and well-being for patients and people everywhere, by combining the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver ground-breaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Much of the week will be spent in the catheter lab and the fellow will also undertake high volume invasive diagnostic work. The successful candidate will do one outpatient clinic per week, concentrating on pre- and post-TAVI patients. The post is ideally suited to a trainee who is fully competent in diagnostic angiography and is in training in PCI. The fellow will gain experience in managing patients undergoing trans-catheter aortic valve implantation. He/she will participate in the frequent national training days that are held in the department. The department also holds frequent ‘Live Case’ days for a variety of meetings.

Person specificationEducation/Qualifications

• Full registration with the GMC
• Substantial experience in general medicine
• Extensive experience in cardiology
• Research experience, presentations, publications
• ALS (or equivalent) within 2 years

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

• Evidence of competence in care of cardiac patients at StR level.
• Fully competent in diagnostic cardiac catheterization and transthoracic echocardiography
• Competent to work without direct supervision where appropriate
• The ability to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority
• Understanding of NHS, clinical governance & resource constraints; mgmt/financial awareness exp of committee work
• Enthusiasm for teaching; exposure to different groups/teaching methods

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