Trust Locum Consultant Cardiologist (YC72)

The expanding Consultant Cardiologist team provide both an acute and elective cardiology service. Heart Failure and cardiac imaging or pacing sub-specialities are particularly desired to develop the service.
We are committed to inclusion, equality and diversity and taking positive steps to address inequalities in the workplace, including the gender pay gap.
Please provide the requested information within your application form:
+ Current or most recent designated body (DB)
+ The name and contact details of the current/most recent Responsible Officer (RO)
+ Date of last revalidation/expected date of next revalidation
Your employment as a doctor brings with it an obligation to engage with all the processes of revalidation, job planning and appraisal. Please ensure when nominating references at the end of your application form that you include referee details for your current Medical Director or Clinical Director to comply with Trust requirements.
Please be aware that we will also approach your current or most recent Responsible Officer for a reference. If this information is not provided and you are shortlisted, the HR department will request this information from you prior to an interview., The successful candidate will join the existing Consultant Cardiologists in providing a comprehensive general Cardiology service to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and its users. The post will be based at Airedale General Hospital. Heart failure and cardiac imaging or pacing sub-specialities are particularly desired to develop the service.

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust., The successes of our Trust are proof that fantastic quality of life can go hand-in-hand with consistent high quality patient care. Our award winning hospital is in a location providing genuine opportunities for a great work-life balance. Our local town of Skipton has been voted as the best place to live in the UK by the Sunday Times, commending its top class schools, great transport links, low crime and beautiful surrounding countryside.

If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £41.90, Standard £21.90 or Basic £21.90) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year.
We encourage applicants to receive the Covid-19 vaccination but this will not be a condition of deployment with the organisation. We will be asking applicants to share their vaccination status as part of our normal pre employment screening but this will not affect their employment status with the Trust.