Assistant/Associate Professor in Cardiology (Honorary Consultant) (Fixed Term)

Assistant/Associate Professor in Cardiology (Honorary Consultant) (Fixed Term)

Department/location: Office of the School of Clinical Medicine

Salary: £109,725 - £145,478

Reference: RA48305

Closing date: 18 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new University of Cambridge - Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Assistant/Associate Professor in Cardiology. We are seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified cardiologists with a focus on clinical, translational or population health research and clinical subspeciality expertise in the fields of coronary intervention, structural cardiac intervention, cardiac rhythm management, echocardiography, inherited cardiac conditions or cardiomyopathy.

Royal Papworth Hospital (RPH) is the UK's leading cardiothoracic hospital, treating approximately 100,000 patients each year and is currently rated 'outstanding' in all domains by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). RPH is the Regional Heart Attack, electrophysiology, cardiothoracic surgical and Comprehensive Valve Centre. It also provides supra-regional services such as cardiac and lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension treatments and structural heart disease treatments.

Our patients and staff benefit from a newly built 'state of the art' 300-bed cardiothoracic centre opened in 2019 with six catheter labs, six operating theatres and a 44-bedded cardiothoracic intensive care unit.

The University of Cambridge (UoC) is one of the world's oldest and most successful universities. We are a renowned centre for research, education, and scholarship that makes a significant contribution to society. The University is consistently ranked amongst the top universities in the world.

The University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine aspires to change the practice of medicine and improve biological understanding in a wide range of clinical specialities and scientific disciplines. Collaborative research, both within biomedicine and crossing the boundaries to the mathematical, physical and social sciences, is key to our approach. The School also supports key enabling technologies and facilities in imaging, bioinformatics and biological systems. The School aims to provide leadership in education, discovery and healthcare through inspirational teaching and training, outstanding basic and clinical research, and integration of these to improve medical practice for both individual patients and populations.

Opening in 2022, the Victor Phillip Daldaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute (VPD-HLRI) is a new joint venture between the NHS (Royal Papworth and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts) and the University of Cambridge that draws together the NHS, academia, commercial, and charitable organisations to create a world-leading research environment aiming to improve cardiovascular and lung health across the world. The VPD-HLRI is adjacent to RPH on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest biotech cluster outside the United States. The VPD-HLRI hosts >450 research staff from eight different University departments and the NHS, and currently holds >£250 million in active research funding.

In addition to wet and dry laboratory research space, the institute houses an NIHR-accredited Clinical Research Facility with the ability to support experimental medicine and early- and late- phase clinical trials. The VPD-HLRI also hosts other important research infrastructure, including a BHF Centre of Research Excellence, the Cambridge Baker Systems Genomic Initiative, and the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, alongside space for education and training, and the RPH R&D Department.

To find out more about our work, please visit www.hlri.cam.ac.uk

The move of RPH to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus has provided a once in a generation opportunity for RPH to invest in research, and this post is the first of five clinical academic appointments being made across the breadth of RPH's clinical domains. RPH has also invested in new posts to improve our capacity to deliver clinical research.

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The post-holder will be expected to lead and deliver a program of cardiovascular research with an emphasis on clinical, translational, or population health science at a level commensurate for the appropriate university appointment. The successful post-holder will have a strong track record of attracting competitive research grant funding and supervision of graduate research students. The postholder will be expected to contribute to the growth of cardiovascular research by working collaboratively with university and NHS colleagues, and to contribute to the activities of the Cardiology Department and the VPD-HLRI more broadly through education, public engagement, and institute management in collaboration with the VPD-HLRI Director.

As a clinical academic, it is anticipated that 50% of the post with be dedicated to research and 50% to clinical work at RPH. The postholder will be expected to integrate seamlessly into the established clinical cardiology services at RPH, and will be expected to have a collaborative and flexible approach to working within a busy clinical department with dynamic and variable requirements.

For further information, please contact: Prof Charlotte Summers (Director of VPD-HLRI, University of Cambridge) via cs493@cam.ac.uk or 01223 762007.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 5 years in the first instance. Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a standard Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Please ensure that you upload a covering letter and CV in the Upload section of the online application. The covering letter should outline how you match the criteria for the post and why you are applying for this role. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Please include details of your three referees, including email address and phone number, one of which must be your most recent line manager.

Closing date for all applications is Sunday 18 January 2026, with interviews to be confirmed soon after. Please quote reference RA48305 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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