Consultant Cardiologist interest in Structural Intervention

Applications are invited for the appointment of Consultant Cardiologist with an interest in structural and coronary intervention at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a permanent position, to support the well-established structural and interventional services at King's.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust's sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients.

The successful applicant will join a team of 16 cardiologists and 6 cardiothoracic surgeons who deliver a broad range of specialist services.

Applicants should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT in Cardiology or eligibility for specialist registration (CESR) or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from date of interview. They will be expected to be fully trained in trans-catheter aortic valve implantation, as well as coronary intervention. They will participate in the (1 in
8) on call rota so experience in primary PCI is essential.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.