Leeds General Infirmary

Consultant in Paediatric Cardiology with a special interest in Inherited Cardiac Conditions

Required to fill this new post within the congenital cardiology department. We serve a population of approximately 5.5 million in Yorkshire, Humberside and Northern Trent. Services include all aspects of specialist tertiary care of cardiac patients with the exception of transplantation. The annual workload of the department includes over 10,000 outpatient consultations, approximately 500 catheterisations per year, (diagnostic, therapeutic, and electrophysiology studies/ablations), and approximately 500 congenital cardiac operations. 

The congenital cardiology department has office space and outpatient clinics situated in the Jubilee Building at the Leeds General Infirmary. The inpatient department within Leeds Children’s Hospital (based in the Clarendon wing) includes a dedicated 16 bed paediatric cardiac ward, (of which 6 beds are designated as high dependency) and a paediatric intensive care unit with 16 beds. There is a recently developed hybrid catheter lab specifically for the care of congenital cardiac patients. There are obstetric, neonatal and all sub-specialty paediatric services on site.

For further details of this position and to apply on-line, please click the apply button. If you have any queries, please contact Lynn Lindley on (0113) 2064895 or email LynnLindley@nhs.net

Also attached please download the attached document for further information regarding the post.

Closing date: 15th July 2021.