Trust LED ST- Senior Interventional Fellow

Position: Trust LED ST3+ - Senior Interventional Fellow
Trust LED ST3+ - Senior Interventional Fellow

NHS Medical & Dental: LED Trust Doctor MT04 Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people. We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries. We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.Job overviewThis is a full-time post in interventional cardiology for 1 year. There is no on-call commitment for the general cardiology rota. This post is ideally suited to a senior trainee in interventional cardiology (as part of an out of programme experience) or a candidate with post CCT/CESR in cardiology who wishes to consolidate their knowledge and increase their experience in PCI before taking up a consultant post.

Overseas candidates are also welcomed to apply for this post provided they have the required qualifications. The appointee will be expected to have good experience in the performance of modern cardiac interventional procedures, as well as extensive experience of basic cardiac catheterisation. The successful candidate will be expected to perform 350-450 PCI cases as first operator per year and will receive intensive training in all aspects of interventional cardiac intervention including complex PCI (unprotected LM, bifurcation techniques), rotational-atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy, intracoronary imaging, zero contrast/ ultra-low contrast PCI, intra-coronary physiology and microvascular assessment, and CTO.Main

duties of the jobThe interventional fellow will perform the following activities: (a) Attendance at interventional catheter lab 6 sessions per week. Further additional sessions may be allocated depending on the timetable. (b) Provision of ward round for PCI patients (interventional ward round). (c) Attendance at regular MDT and educational weekly meeting. (d) Dictation of discharge and procedural letters as required. (e) Participate in departmental interventional research, audits, and educational programmes, present at national and international conferences, and publish in peer-reviewed journals. There will be opportunity to join ACS PCI weekend lists alongside the interventional consultant. This is an optional commitment and will provide a valuable training opportunity.Working for our organisationThere are currently 8 substantive and 1 locum interventional cardiologists employed at the LCC. In addition, there are 4 visiting interventional cardiologists from surrounding trusts. LCC perform more than 1650 PCI procedure per year, including 24/7 primary PCI, and cover a full spectrum of coronary intervention. The department has OCT with Co registration, IVUS with Sync-vision co-registration, full range of intra-coronary physiology and microvascular assessment capability (we are the first centre in England to recruit for iCORMICA study), rotational atherectomy, Orbital atherectomy, intracoronary lithotripsy and Impella programme.

We are well renowned for performing Zero contrast/ ultralow contrast complex PCI procedure across UK with multiple national and international…