Heart Failure Fellow

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Job Description

The successful candidate will receive advanced training in acute and chronic heart failure in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Duties include the assessment and management of patients presenting with acute heart failure, regular heart failure clinics, assessment of potential candidates for complex devices, and device implantation and follow-up. The successful candidate will also work within, and lead, the multi-disciplinary team and closely support the inpatient heart failure nurse specialist team, who are involved in the care of patients with heart failure across all specialties within the Trust.

During a typical week the Fellow will contribute to

• 1-2 heart failure clinics: new and follow patients
• Referral management (electronic triage and advice and guidance to primary care)
• 2 Heart failure MDT meetings
• 2 Device therapy MDT
• 1 ITU / heart failure MDT
• Monthly cardiorenal MDT
• 2 device list sessions for pacing and complex device implantation
• Monthly pacing/device follow-up clinic
• Review of ward patients and emergency acute heart failure presentations in ED and MAU as appropriate
• Heart failure ward rounds and supporting heart failure nurses

Research/Service Development

Cardiology ward cover (1 full week every 10 weeks)

Opportunities to participate in coronary angiography, echo, stress echo, TOE, cardiac CT or MRI will be scheduled into the timetable if required but are not expected.

The post will include a contribution to the cardiology middle grade out of hours service on a 1:10 basis. Out of hours ward cover includes some general medical inpatient ward cover.

We have an excellent track record and reputation for training. Our previous fellows give uniformly positive feedback on the quality of training, have consistently published abstracts and papers, delivered presentations at national meetings, and have gone on to secure prestigious consultant posts.

Qualifications

Essential

Professional qualifications:-

MRCP

Full GMC registration with licence to practice

Desirable

BSc

MD/PhD

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.