Cardiac Physiologist Band 6 - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Cardiac Physiologist - Band 6

Contract - Permanent. Full-time 37.5 hours per week

To conduct routine cardiac diagnostic procedures:
Electrocardiography, echocardiography (performing and reporting adult echos), exercise tolerance tests.

Holter monitoring including ECG, BP and Event recording

Pacemaker checks.

Over the past 17 years the Clinical and Academic Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Whittington Health has consistently been awarded a customer excellence award, the national standard for customer service excellence.

The department is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team including five Cardiology Consultants providing a diagnostic cardiovascular service to the hospital and local general practitioners.

Over many years, our department has pioneered services that have bridged the divide between different parts of the National Health Service.

This opportunity has become more apparent with the establishment of Whittington Health as an integrated care organisation following the merger of the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust with Islington Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Haringey PCT, becoming the first integrated care organisation (ICO) in the United Kingdom.

Perform and report adult and paediatric Echocardiograms.

Perform, supervise and report Cardiac exercise testing as a service to the hospital consultants and open access GP requests.

In addition patients must be examined with relation to the contraindications of exercise testing especially when performing GP open access assessments.

Perform and report pacemaker checks.

Sometimes perform 24 hours Holter ECG, BP and event recorder monitoring, both procedure and analysis.

Record pressures and ensure the patients wellbeing during diagnostic procedures.

Train physiologist and medical staff in all areas of cardiac physiology.

Clinical admin work.

Working for your organisation should read: Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

The physiologist will need to perform and report adult Echocardiograms. Perform, supervise and report Cardiac exercise testing as a service to the hospital consultants and open access GP requests.

In addition patients must be examined with relation to the contraindications of exercise testing especially when performing GP open access assessments.

Perform and report pacemaker checks.

Perform 24 hours Holter ECG, BP and event recorder monitoring, both procedure and analysis.

Train physiologist and medical staff in all areas of cardiac physiology.

Clinical admin work which involves maintaining the diagnostic data bases.