Consultant Cardiologist

We are looking for an experienced well-established Interventional Cardiologist to provide general and interventional services and provide corporative leadership for the cardiac medical team to facilitate high quality care to patients.

The successful applicant will be involved in facilitating the development of a regional PCI service, as well as provide diagnostic and treatment services for patients in the central region.

The role holder will be expected to encourage innovation and quality in the development of services and to provide a strategic view of the direction for future service development.

To this end, they will be expected to undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects as well as clinical research.

They will engage with other providers, consumers, and health organisations to improve the quality and responsiveness of services and should possess highly developed relationship and communication skills, a sound understanding of clinical governance and the ability to work within the multi-disciplinary model.

Main focus of the role is on
Coronary intervention including the interventional treatment of stable coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndromes and their complications.

Experience in the treatment of structural heart disease is desirable but not mandatory for the role, including experience in obtaining and assessing associated cardiac imaging.

They will provide medical practice that delivers a sustainable high quality cardiology service meeting the needs of the department and region.

The Cardiology Network is a secondary and tertiary service provided for Capital and Coast and Hutt Valley hospitals and those of the central region of New Zealand.

The Cardiology Network at Capital Coast and Hutt includes Outpatient Clinics - Cardiac Diagnostic Testing, the Heart and Lung Unit at Wellington Hospital and the Coronary Care Unit at Hutt Hospital and the Cardiac Interventional Suite.

• Vocationally registered in Internal Medicine (Cardiology) with the MCNZ
• FRACP or equivalent qualification and be able to register for with the MCNZ
• Should meet the minimum requirements set in the Cardiac Society's "Position Statement for Competency in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
• Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary team
• Interventional Cardiologists, other medical, nursing and technical staff
• Able to provide consistently high standards of medical care
• Participate in an oncall roster
• Relevant experience and training

Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley district is located centrally in Wellington and has over 6,000 full-time equivalent staff, making us one of the major employers in the Wellington region.

We operate three hospitals - Wellington Regional Hospital in Newtown, Hutt Valley Hospital and Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua - as well as the Kāpiti Health Centre at Paraparaumu.

• Your safety and that of our patients is important to us. It is our expectation that you will be fully vaccinated against COVID 19, having received two doses of an approved COVID 19 vaccination._