- The Lead Cardiologist will provide strategic, clinical, and operational leadership for AMCE's cardiology service to advance the hospital's cardiovascular programme. The role holder will lead the delivery of high-quality, safe, evidence-based, and patient-centred cardiology care, while driving service development, multidisciplinary collaboration, clinical governance, quality improvement, teaching, research, and innovation across AMCE's cardiovascular programme.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities
Clinical Care and Leadership
- Provide expert clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management for patients with complex cardiovascular conditions.
- Lead consultant-level decision-making across outpatient clinics, inpatient reviews, emergency consultations, and multidisciplinary case discussions.
- Provide clinical oversight for non-invasive and invasive cardiology services, ensuring appropriate escalation, referral, and continuity of care.
- Communicate clearly with patients and families on diagnosis, treatment options, risks, benefits, and expected outcomes.
- Review and approve clinical reports, treatment plans, discharge summaries, and follow-up recommendations where required.
Strategic Development and Service Excellence
- Develop and implement strategic plans, clinical pathways, and service improvement initiatives for AMCE's cardiology service.
- Strengthen integration between cardiology, cardiac diagnostics, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, intensive care, emergency medicine, and other relevant specialties.
- Drive improvements in access, patient flow, turnaround time, patient experience, and clinical outcomes across the cardiology service.
- Support the development of advanced cardiac programmes, including preventive cardiology, heart failure, cardiac imaging, rhythm management, and multidisciplinary cardiac care.
- Contribute to workforce planning, equipment planning, and resource optimisation for sustainable service growth.
Governance, Quality Assurance and Patient Safety
- Ensure compliance with applicable clinical guidelines, regulatory requirements, professional standards, and AMCE policies.
- Lead clinical audit, morbidity and mortality review, incident review, and quality improvement activities within cardiology.
- Monitor service performance indicators, patient outcomes, safety standards, and documentation quality.
- Promote safe use of cardiology equipment, infection prevention standards, medication safety, and effective clinical risk management.
- Support accreditation readiness and continuous improvement across the cardiovascular service.
Leadership, Teaching and Research
- Provide clinical leadership, mentorship, and supervision to consultants, fellows, residents, cardiac physiologists, nurses, and allied health professionals.
- Facilitate teaching, case reviews, grand rounds, clinical training, and continuing professional development activities.
- Promote a culture of teamwork, accountability, ethical practice, compassion, and patient-centred care.
- Lead or participate in cardiology research, innovation, publications, and collaboration with AMCE's clinical and academic partners.
- Support performance management, capability development, and succession planning within the cardiology team.
- Medical Degree (MBBS, MBBCh, MD, or equivalent) from a recognised medical school.
- Completed specialist fellowship, residency, or equivalent postgraduate training in Cardiology from a recognised institution.
- Valid medical licence and specialist registration with the appropriate national or international regulatory body.
- Certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is essential.
- Additional qualifications in clinical leadership, healthcare management, cardiac imaging, interventional cardiology, heart failure, or related subspecialty areas will be an added advantage.
- Minimum of 10 years' Consultant-level experience in cardiology practice.
- Demonstrated experience leading cardiology services in a tertiary hospital, advanced cardiac centre, academic medical centre, or international hospital environment.
- Strong expertise across non-invasive and invasive cardiology, with demonstrable competence in complex cardiovascular case management.
- Proven track record in clinical governance, quality improvement, service development, multidisciplinary collaboration, and team leadership.
- Experience with electronic medical records (EMR), cardiac imaging/workflow systems, clinical audit, and outcome reporting is highly desirable.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is essential
- clinical leadership, healthcare management
- interventional cardiology, heart failure