Resident Doctor in Cardiology (Core Medical Trainee or Above)

Resident Doctor in Cardiology (Core Medical Trainee or Above)

**Resident Doctor in Cardiology (Core Medical Training Level or Above)
Cromwell Hospital, London, SW5 0TU**

Salary: £85,000 a year - full time equivalent

2-3 x 12-hour shifts per week

Shift Pattern: 12-hour shift starting at 09:00 and finishing at 21:00 the same day or starting at 21:00 and finishing at 09:00 the next day.

We make health happen.

Cromwell Hospital is home to world renowned private cardiologists, based in London, specialising in every aspect of cardiovascular and heart disease, including coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, electrophysiology and congenital heart defects. You will work together with specialist nurses and technicians, and private cardiologists as part of a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care.

You'll need to have a good knowledge of dealing with medical emergencies and be able to recognise and escalate complications following cardiac procedures, recognise the abnormal ECG and have a low threshold for escalating to the cardiology consultant in charge of the patient or the on call cardiologist

You will be expected to:

• • Conduct a daily ward round in collaboration with the nurse in charge, for all patients that have not already been seen by a consultant.
• • Complete any jobs at the request of the consultant.
• • Be the first point of contact for consultants and nursing staff caring for cardiology patients.
• • Clerk patients admitted under a cardiologist
• • Clerk in any other patients admitted as an emergency to the first floor, if the Medical Resident doctor requires support.
• • Work closely as a team with the other RMOs (oncology, surgery and ITU), asking for assistance where necessary.
• • Effectively hand-over with RMOs at the end of shift, particularly regarding those patients giving cause for concern.
• • Review any ECG performed for emergency purposes within 15 minutes

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

Essential Skills:

• • Analytical skills
• • Ability to work as part of a team
• • Ability to develop personal research projects and exercise initiative
• • Ability to present at conferences and seminars with authority and coherence
• • Attendance at internal seminars clinical audit, mortality and morbidity meetings
• • Excellent written communication skills and the ability to write technical reports clearly and succinctly for publication
• • Ability to demonstrate innovative and original thinking
• • Ability to organise and prioritise work with minimal supervision
• • Ability to meet deadlines
• • Ability to be flexible according to the needs of the service and support all members of the MDT

Qualifications:

Essential

• • Degree in Medicine MBBS or equivalent
• • Full Registration with GMC
• • Trained in medicine to core medical trainee level or equivalent
• • Up to date ALS certificate
• • Experience of Cariology and Medicine in Independent Sector or NHS services

Desirable

• • Database literate with knowledge of statistics
• • Evidence of research publications, awards, posters presentations
• • Full MRCP