About the role
Salary: Negotiable
This is a replacement post for a consultant interventional cardiologist with a special interest in Coronary Intervention. The appointee will be expected to have significant experience in the performance of all aspects of modern cardiac coronary intervention. The appointee would also participate in the development and introduction of new interventional procedures, subject to Trust policy.
This is a post for a constant cardiologist with a specialist interest in coronary intervention. The main duties of the role are:
The appointee will be joining a team of ten full time in-house interventional cardiologists, and six joint appointees in intervention. This is a replacement post for an interventional consultant with an interest in coronary intervention. The interventional cardiology team currently consists of 18 interventional cardiologists, supported by imaging cardiologists, dedicated nurse specialists, cardiac and vascular surgeons. 16 of our interventional cardiologists participate in coronary intervention at LHCH. There are a number of dedicated coronary interventionalists, combined with those also undertaking structural intervention, and those in joint appointments at other hospitals around the region. We offer the full range of coronary interventions including coronary physiology, coronary imaging with IVUS and OCT, complex calcium modification with intravascular lithotripsy, rotational atherectomy and LASER atherectomy. In addition there are regular CTO lists with cases discussed through a dedicated MDT. We have both registrars training in coronary intervention, a a Fellowship training programme with our previous Fellows obtaining consultant posts in tertiary centres in the UK and abroad.