Cardiology Fellow (Interventional)

Location:  Wellington Regional Hospital, Kenepuru Hospital, Hutt Hospital

Service:    Cardiology

Contract:  Full time, 12 months fixed term (1 February 2027 - 4 February 2028)

Salary:      As per ASMS SECA

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of TeTiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence. 

About the role

This Fellowship offers advanced, hands-on training in invasive diagnostic cardiac procedures and coronary intervention within a high-volume cardiac catheterisation laboratory environment. The Fellow will develop expertise as a primary operator in diagnostic angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention, with exposure to contemporary interventional techniques and technologies including FFR/resting indices, IVUS, OCT, IVL, orbital atherectomy and rotational atherectomy.

The Fellow will gain broad experience across the full spectrum of coronary disease, supported by an extensive primary PCI network for the Central New Zealand Region. This includes chronic stable coronary artery disease, chronic total occlusions, calcified lesions, bifurcation disease, acute coronary syndromes and ST-elevation myocardial infarction, as well as ethanol septal ablation. There may also be exposure to structural heart interventions, including TAVI, left atrial appendage closure, ASD/PFO closure and mitral valvuloplasty.

The role is predominantly laboratory-based, with the Fellow expected to spend around nine sessions per week in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory and one session in an outpatient clinic. Over the course of the Fellowship, Fellows are expected to be involved in more than 500 PCI procedures, 300 intravascular imaging studies and selected structural interventions.

Depending on Medical Council of New Zealand registration status, there may be opportunities to contribute to either the RMO roster or SMO roster cover. The Fellowship also includes an expectation to participate in research, with opportunities across translational and clinical science projects. Fellows are supported with mentoring in study design, grant writing, ethics and institutional review processes, and in presenting and publishing their work.

About the Team/Service/ Location

The Wellington Cardiology Department provides secondary and tertiary care for patients with cardiac health problems. Secondary services are provided for people living in the Wellington Region, Porirua Basin and Kāpiti Coast with tertiary referrals accepted from Hutt Valley, Palmerston North, MidCentral, Wairarapa, Whanganui, Hawke’s Bay and Nelson Marlborough.

Our department offers most modern cardiac services, excluding cardiac transplantation and complex paediatric procedures. Services include outpatient and specialist clinics across several hospital sites. The department also provides cardiac rehabilitation, diagnostic monitoring and acute cardiac care. They also provides advanced cardiac imaging and has strong links with the Wellington School of Medicine and University of Otago.

Our procedure suite includes three catheter laboratories offering diagnostic, interventional, electrophysiology and structural heart procedures.

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.

About you

• Vocationally registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)
• Able to register for vocational registration with the FRACP
• FRACP written and clinical exams or equivalent, and preferably completion and approval of the RACP advanced training in cardiology
  
• Relevant experience and training

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How to apply

To apply please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers’. 

If you have any questions about the role, please email sandra.tam@ccdhb.org.nz

We are not accepting recruitment agency’s applicants.

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