Consultant Cardiologist Advanced imaging​/Echocardiography | Royal NHS Foundation Trust

This is a replacement post to deliver complex echocardiography and general cardiology services to the Royal Free, London NHS Foundation Trust. The post is based predominantly at the Barnet Hospital site.

To provide overall care for patients referred to and cared for by the cardiology services including inpatient, outpatient and echo diagnostic services at Barnet site, to support the development of a robust MDT oversight regime, to support the nursing and administration teams in delivering safe care and to support research in this field.

• Provide support to the echo department at Barnet Hospital (supervise lists, provide support and training, help develop service)
• Participate in advanced cardiac imaging (transthoracic echo, stress echo and TOE)
• Participate in weekly cardiac imaging MDT (cross site)
• Contribute to the general cardiology at the Barnet site as ‘Consultant of The Week’ providing daily CCU and cardiology routine and post-take ward rounds and providing a consult service for the acute medical take. Time will be given in lieu for working bank holidays
• Outpatient clinical care (average clinic template of 5 new patients and 4-5 follow up appointments with a mix of face-to-face and virtual appointment types)
• Support robust audit programme
• Support the department undergraduate teaching and educational supervision

• Stress Echo and TOE
• Out-patient clinics
• Ward rounds.
• Local echo lead at Barnet
• Local teaching and MDT meetings
• Develop advanced imaging

There is no general medical component to this post.

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