Associate Practitioner (XR04)

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an Associate Practitioner in cardiology. The role involves supporting non-invasive cardiac physiology services, monitoring ECGs, and assisting with various cardiac tests. Candidates should have clinical experience, excellent communication skills, and relevant certifications. This position offers flexible working arrangements to support a balance between work and personal life, making it ideal for both full and part-time applicants.

Qualifications

• Experience in performing, analyzing and reporting ECGs, recognizing normal and abnormal rhythms.
• Understanding the role of the Associate Practitioner in service development.

Responsibilities

• Support non-invasive cardiac physiology services, including monitoring and reporting ECGs.
• Assist with exercise tolerance testing and calibrating complex medical equipment.

Skills

Clinical experience in cardiology

Communication skills

Ability to interpret ECGs

Ability to work autonomously

Education

GCSEs grade A-C in Maths and English

Certificate in Electrocardiography

SCST Diploma in ECG

Job description

Doyou want to expand your existing clinical skills and knowledge of cardiologyand work within a large and friendly team at one of the largest cardiacdepartments in the country?

Weare looking for people who enjoy working with others, motivated to learn newskills and provide the best care to our patients. We welcome applicationsfrom those seeking both full and part time work and can offer flexibleworking and condensed hours to support a work life balance.

TheCardio-Respiratory department at Leeds Teaching Hospitals is looking torecruit an Associate Practitioner to support the non-invasive cardiacphysiology services. The successful candidate will work closely with theCardiac Physiologists/Scientists and assist them with high qualitydiagnostics including ambulatory analysis, exercise tolerance testing,cardio-pulmonary exercise test and tilt table services.

Main duties of the job

Weare looking for individuals with clinical experience and knowledge incardiology. Applicants should have the ability to record, interpret andreport ECG's as a minimum and hold certification. The SCST ECG diploma isdesirable.

Thesuccessful applicant will support the ambulatory cardiac monitoring services,analysing and reporting ECG recordings from cardiac monitors and escalatingabnormal findings to the senior clinical team. The successful applicant willalso assist the Cardiac Physiologists/Scientists with performing exercisetolerance tests and full cardiopulmonary exercise tests. They will play a keyrole in non-invasive services and support our ECG team with some leadershipresponsibilities such as co-ordinating daily tasks for Senior AssistantTechnical officers and Assistant Technical Officers alongside the seniorleadership team.

Inaddition, the role will include administrative duties such as stock levelmanagement and ordering. Applicants should possess excellent communicationskills, be a role model to others and have the ability to demonstrateexemplary patient centered care. .

About us

AtLTHT, we aim to be a fair and supportive hospital with positive, caring teamswho are champions of the Leeds Way values. Our values are part of what makeus different from other Trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as aresponsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what theysee as important to how we work. Ourfive values are:

Accountable

Empowered

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

PRINCIPALDUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

ClinicalDuties

Carries out all aspects of clinicaland administration work as approved by their line manager, working withinestablished codes of practice and local departmental standard operatingprocedures.

To be professionally and legallyaccountable for all aspect of own work, including the management of patientsin your care and dealing with their specific needs.

Routinely undertakes assessment ofboth in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of investigations and usesown discretion in order to ensure the patient is suitable for theinvestigation.

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

Communicates sensitive informationabout routine and complex investigations to patients and relatives/carersincluding children and those with learning and/or physical disabilities.

Calibrates and manipulates a widerange of complex, expensive, technical equipment which process, create,update and store information. Identifies any automatically generated reportsthat are false and or inaccurate, escalating any errors to the appropriatemember of LTHT staff.

Performs / provides factual reportson a number of investigations on a region-wide range of patients includingacutely ill paediatric and elderly patients and those with a range ofphysical and learning disabilities.

Clinical investigations would bedependent on the applicants skill set and area of clinical focus and mayinclude but are not limited to:

• Ambulatory and remotemonitoring analysis and reporting
• Perform, interpret and report 12lead electrocardiographs (ECG)
• Assist with exercising testingprocedures
• Assist with Tilt testing procedures
• Assist with invasive procedures

Demonstrates personal duty of carefor safe use of expensive and highly complex equipment. Is responsible forensuring that others are fully trained in the safe use of such equipmentwithin their specialist area.

Responsible for maintenance ofstock levels and consumables and for day to day security of expensiveequipment, e.g. portable devices. Reporting equipment faults in accordancewith departmental policy.

Professional

Responsible for maintaining owntechnical proficiencies and competencies in clinical areas.

Maintains and develops currentknowledge of evidence based practice in each clinical area.

Responsible for reporting clinicalincidents and adverse events to the appropriate Team Manager / ServiceManager.

Responsible for formal mentorshipand input into coordination of training of designated junior staff andstudents.

Be an active member of thein-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 infundamental cardiac techniques to trainees and junior staff members.

Undertakes Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) in accordance with Personal Development Plan (PDP) asdeveloped with Line Manager.

Attends and participates indepartmental staff meetings.

Frequently undertakes collection ofdata for use in audit, research projects and equipment testing.

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

Organisational

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

Demonstrates the ability toprioritise and organise the clinical caseload within a designated area ofcardiology.

Responsible for obtaining,transmitting and storing information relating to the delivery of a careservice.

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

Other

Communicates with all members ofthe multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for the patient.Including giving detailed advice to other specialist professions which willinfluence patient care/outcomes. Communication skills including:

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

Immediate Life Support trainingessential during procedures performed on acutely ill patients and those atvery high risk of sudden cardiac death.

Expected to undertake informaltraining by means of periodic in-house assessments.

To comply with the Trusts manualhandling policy at all times.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSEs grade A-C in Maths and English, or equivalent.
• Basic Life Support and a willingness to undertake Immediate Life Support
• Certificate in Electrocardiography or equivalent, or experience and competency in performing, interpreting and reporting ECG
• Immediate Life Support Training
• SCST Diploma in ECG

Experience

• Theoretical knowledge of a broad range of fundamental cardio-respiratory investigations
• Maintains own continued professional development
• Experience in performing, analysing and reporting ECGs, recognising normal and abnormal rhythms.
• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Associate Practitioner in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role contributes to service development.
• Existing skills in Cardio-Respiratory departments

Skills & behaviours

• Listens to, communicates with, values, encourages and acknowledges contributions from others.
• Provides leadership, support and guidance to other team members
• Able to communicate sensitive information in a variety of forms to patients, relative and carers including children and patients with learning or physical disabilities
• Able to work autonomously, co-ordinate, plan and prioritise workload

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.