Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
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Principal Duties & Areas of Responsibility Clinical Duties Carries out all aspects of clinical and administration work as approved by their line manager, working within established codes of practice and local departmental standard operating procedures.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspect of own work, including the management of patients in your care and dealing with their specific needs.

Routinely undertakes assessment of both in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of investigations and uses own discretion in order to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation.

Communicates with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for patients, including:
negotiating, reassurance, empathy, and persuasiveness.


Communicates sensitive information about routine and complex investigations to patients and relatives/carers including children and those with learning and/or physical disabilities.

Calibrates and manipulates a wide range of complex, expensive, technical equipment which process, create, update and store information.

Identifies any automatically generated reports that are false and or inaccurate, escalating any errors to the appropriate member of LTHT staff.

Performs / provides factual reports on a number of investigations on a region-wide range of patients including acutely ill paediatric and elderly patients and those with a range of physical and learning disabilities.


Clinical investigations would be dependent on the applicants skill set and area of clinical focus and may include but are not limited to: - Perform, interpret and report 12 lead electrocardiographs (ECG) - Application and downloading of ambulatory ECG, BP and Sleep monitoring equipment - Perform basic spirometry respiratory testing Demonstrates personal duty of care for safe use of expensive and highly complex equipment.

Is responsible for ensuring that others are fully trained in the safe use of such equipment within their specialist area.

Responsible for maintenance of stock levels and consumables and for day to day security of expensive equipment, e.g. portable devices.

Reporting equipment faults in accordance with departmental policy. Professional Responsible for maintaining own technical proficiencies and competencies in clinical areas. Maintains and develops current knowledge of evidence based practice in each clinical area. Responsible for reporting clinical incidents and adverse events to the appropriate Team Manager / Service Manager.

Responsible for formal mentorship and input into coordination of training of designated junior staff and students.

Be an active member of the in-service training programme by attendance at, and participation in, in-service training programmes, tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review.

Regularly provides training in fundamental cardiac techniques to trainees and junior staff members. Undertakes Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in accordance with Personal Development Plan (PDP) as developed with Line Manager.

Attends and participates in departmental staff meetings. Frequently undertakes collection of data for use in audit, research projects and equipment testing.

Works in close liaison with other staff members to ensure efficient and effective delivery of service, contributing to maintaining a friendly and welcoming working atmosphere.

Organisational Responsible for ensuring the Leeds Way Values and LTHT vision is integrated within the Cardio-Respiratory CSU.

Demonstrates the ability to prioritise and organise the clinical caseload within a designated area of cardiology. Responsible for obtaining, transmitting and storing information relating to the delivery of a care service.

Keep accurate and timely records, inputting accurate data into the departmental databases allowing for the production of statistical resource information for accurate billing.

Other Communicates with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for the patient.

Including giving detailed advice to other specialist professions which will influence patient care/outcomes


Communication skills including:

  • Negotiating, e.g. with physicians who demand investigations not achievable within the service limitations.
  • Reassurance, e.g.
to patients who are anxious about their clinical findings. - Persuasiveness, e.g. to young children who are scared to undergo clinical procedures.

Immediate Life Support training essential during procedures performed on acutely ill patients and those at very high risk of sudden cardiac death.

Expected to undertake informal training by means of periodic in-house assessments. To comply with the Trusts manual handling policy at all times.
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