Locum Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Locum Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area cardiology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Fixed term: 6 months (This post will be for a duration of 3-6 months) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 197-AA8387

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole‑life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three‑quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough‑based boards of the ICs in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Consultant Cardiologist with a special interest in Coronary Intervention. The post holder will be working at the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). They will participate in all the activities of a busy cardiac Department and contribute to the expansion of the current Cardiology service.

The post involves supporting the primary angioplasty service based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT).

The job will include supporting professional activities of revalidation and education.

Main duties of the job

• 2 Out‑patient clinics (5 new patients, 7 follow up)
• Cardiac Catheter Laboratory (QEH) – This will consist of lab sessions (2 sessions per week and providing cross‑cover)
• 7 sessions per year – Cardiologist of the Week
• Supporting Professional Activities
• Cardiologist of the Week (9am‑5pm, Monday to Friday)
• Review of in‑patients including on Cardiac Ward (including CCU patients)
• Daily AMU/A&E and ward new patient referral rounds
• Telephone advice via Consultant‑Connect to local General Practitioners
• Coronary intervention on‑call (Currently 1 in 10) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
• There is no on‑call commitment or weekend work at QEH although it is envisaged that a weekend rota will be introduced with allocation of PAs and time off in lieu as appropriate. Out of hours support is provided by Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and their Clinical Director, on behalf of the Medical Director, three months after the commencement date of the appointee.

The Job Plan will then be reviewed annually, following the Appraisal Meeting. This will be a prospective agreement that sets out a consultant’s duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year. It should cover a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities, providing a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. It should include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives. The annual appraisal process will inform the revalidation process.

The job plan will schedule details of the clinical activity and clinically related activity components of the job plan which occur at regular times in the week. Agreement should be reached between the appointee and their Clinical Director with regard to the scheduling of all other activities, including the Supporting Professional Activities.

Person specification

• Medical degree (MBBS or equivalent)
• Full and Specialist registration (with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
• UK-trained applicants must hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview
• Non‑UK trained applicants must show evidence of equivalence to UK CCT and be on the GMC Specialist Register or applying via CESR
• Experience delivering high-quality clinical care while maintaining patient safety and adhering to national standards (e.g., GIRFT, NHS performance targets).
• Proven track record of leading or contributing to clinically driven service improvement or transformation initiatives.
• Training and experience in optimising theatre utilisation, patient flow, and perioperative efficiency.
• Broad experience of working within the NHS
• Strong commitment to delivering change and high performance through effective collaboration with management and clinical teams
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
• Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
• Experience in conducting and supporting audits, improvement and service transformation projects
• Knowledge of national targets linked to the NHS performance
• Experience using clinical data, benchmarking, and audit findings to drive improvements and reduce unwarranted variation.

Clinical Audit

• Active audit interest demonstrated by at least one completed clinical audit in the last 12 months.
• Understanding of NHS systems and audit processes
• Evidence of service improvement projects and audits
• Publication of audit results.
• Evidence of embedding governance processes to monitor outcomes, safety, and service performance.

Teaching Experience

• Experience and interest in undergraduate teaching
• Skill and ability in formal and informal teaching for both undergraduate/postgraduate students and nursing/midwifery staff
• Educational supervision accreditation
• An understanding of current issues in medical education and training
• Previous experience in trainee supervision
• Higher teaching qualification
• Presentations at National or International meetings
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Management and Administrative Experience

• Understands the management structure of the NHS
• Ability to use Microsoft office packages, e.g. MS Word, Excel, Access & PowerPoint.
• Ability to use patient information systems

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.