Specialist Cardiac Physiologist - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

NHS AfC:
Band 6

Main area

Technical Cardiology

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Grade

NHS AfC: Band 6

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time hours per week

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Job ref

Site

Nottingham University Hospitals Trust

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Town

Nottingham

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Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

07/06/2023 23:59Job overview

Nottingham University Hospitals Trust are looking for qualified cardiac physiologists to join our non invasive team.

If you are an experienced echocardiographer or newly qualified physiologist with a desire to expand your skills in a large tertiary centre then we may have the job for you.

We are looking for enthusiastic team members with a passion for echocardiography who can help us in our provision of outstanding patient care.

In return we can offer you a well established training program in echo and experience in a variety of specialist areas such as physiologist led valve services and ICC clinics, multidisciplinary heart failure clinics, contrast echo, stress echo and adult and paediatric congenital assessments.

Main duties of the job

We provide out of hours provision for emergency echo and suitably qualified physiologists will be required to assist with this service.

You will also work in our ambulatory service analysing ECG recordings and supervising junior colleagues. Experience of treadmill stress and head up tilt table testing will also be an advantage.

Please note:
This is a non invasive post only.

Working for our organisation

We are a large department of friendly physiologists who work across our two hospitals.

Over recent years we have developed our staff training program and this has resulted in a team of physiologists who are highly skilled and motivated and very adept at supporting others to develop their particular areas of interest and skills.

We hold BSE departmental accreditation for TTE, Stress echo and TOE. We have a successful history in supporting physiologists to obtain personal BSE accreditation. The echo team is led by a BSE assessor and supported by highly trained band 7 physiologists.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Performing and reporting adult transthoracic echo to a high standard.

Assisting consultant cardiologists to perform transoesophageal echo.

Leading exercise tolerance tests and head up tilt table testing.

Analysing and reporting ambulatory ECG tests.

Supervising and supporting junior team members.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working within a cardiology department

Desirable criteria

Independent in TTE
Working towards or achieved BSE accreditation
Independent in reporting ambulatory ECG
Independently performing ETT and HUTT

Education

Essential criteria

BSc in Clinical Physiology or equivalent

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Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience.

Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.

Salary:
The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence:

All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy:

NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate all ID and right to work documentation such as passports, visa's and driving license through a system called Trust ID.

NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment.

The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation.

The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service
I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the
Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.