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    Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Worcester, United Kingdom - Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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    Job summary

    Due to the expansion of our cardiac rhythm management services with are seeking a full-time, highly skilled cardiac physiologist with extensive knowledge and experience to join our team. We are a supportive team that aim to always provide high quality patient focused service whilst supporting our staff needs.

    Main duties of the job

    Assist the Cardiologist on the insertionPermanent Pacemaker, implantable loop and complex devices and be responsiblefor checks in the pacing follow-up clinic, this will require the post holder toanalyse complex data and recognise when to re-programme parameters as permanufacturer and departmental procedure and protocols.

    Work towards assisting the cardiologist during Electrophysiology procedures including ablation, permanent pacemaker, implantable loop and complex device implants

    Work in the invasive Cardiac CatheterLaboratory service, performing unsupervised monitoring of invasiveintra-cardiac pressures, ECG intracoronary imaging on clinically high-riskcardiac patients. Alerting Physician immediately of any changes in parameters.

    Act in the lead role during simple and complexdevice follow up clinics, optimising devices and escalating findings wherenecessary.

    Responsible for ensuring patients are monitored appropriatelyduring investigations and procedures. Awareness of adverse clinical conditions/clinicalevents during the investigations and ensuring swift and appropriateaction is taken to minimise life threatening or significant medical events.

    To perform a supervisory / lead role and providetechnical support in Technician Led Cardiac Exercise Tolerance tests (ETT).Without supervision, analyse and report the results of the procedure, inaccordance with National and Departmental protocols and procedures.

    About us

    Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

    Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

    The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

    Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

    We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

    Our objectives are simple:

  • Best services for local people
  • Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
  • Best use of resources
  • Best people
  • Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

    We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    To be Acredited with British HeartRhythm Society (BHRS), EHRA AP or International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners(IBHRE).

    To be fully competent andresponsible for performing a wide range of complex and highly specialised non-invasiveinvestigations, including analysis, reporting and clinical interpretation ofresults for their own patient workload and that of junior members of staff includingverifications of written reports from junior members of staff.

    Oppurtunity to work towards supportingthe invasive electrophysiology service at Worcestershire Royal Hospital,assisting the EP Cardiologists during complex procedures and support juniormember of the team in training and development

    To support the permanent pacemaker,implantable loop and complex devices services assisting in implants as well as follow-upclinics and support junior member of the team in training and development.

    To be fully competent inhaemodynamic monitoring in cath lab procedures ideally diagnostic, PCI and CTO.

    To provide high technical expertise,supervision, support and training to technical and medical staff.

    To produce technically satisfactoryresults in accordance with national and departmental standards.

    To communicate complex instructionsand clinical information effectively to all categories of patients, ensuringco-operation and compliance to obtain accurate technical and clinical data.

    To analyses clinical information andclinical conditions during procedures, whereby judgement is required todetermine the appropriate course of action

    To visual and verbal risk-assessevery patient prior to carrying out any clinical investigations.

    To ensure patients are monitoredappropriately during investigations and ensuring swift and appropriate actionis taken to minimise life threatening or significant medical events.

    To initiate Basic Life Support andImmediate Life Support when required.

    To ensure safe use of specialist /expensive equipment used by self and others.

    To report all untoward events oruncertainties to the Head of Department.

    To work at all times in a safe andresponsible manner

    To plan and prioritise personalworkloads according to daily staffing levels.

    To advise junior medical staff onthe availability, selection and appropriateness of test procedures

    This post has no budgetary responsibility

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Degree in Clinical Physiology or equivalent
  • British Heart Rhythm Society (BHRS), EHRA AP or International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) accredited.
  • ASCST (parts 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • ILS certificate
  • Desirable

  • ALS
  • A1 Assessors award
  • Registration for RCCP


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