Chief Cardiac Physiologist Band 7

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in North London seeks a Chief Cardiac Physiologist to lead echocardiography services. The role requires a BSc in cardiac physiology and experience in both adult and paediatric echocardiography. Successful candidates will perform diagnostic tests and train junior staff, contributing to a high-standard service environment. Competitive salary range of £56,276 to £63,176 annually.

Benefits

Continuous Professional Development funding

Qualifications

• Degree in cardiac physiology or relevant qualifications.
• Experience in adult and paediatric echocardiography.
• BSE or equivalent echo accreditation is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Perform and report adult and paediatric Echocardiograms.
• Perform and report cardiac exercise testing.
• Train physiologist and medical staff in cardiac physiology.

Skills

Recognise situations requiring medical involvement

Ability to analyse & interpret data

Up to date knowledge in echocardiography

Knowledge in Paediatric echocardiography

ILS certified

Education

BSc cardiac physiology or equivalent

BSE accredited or equivalent

At least 2 years experience in NHS or equivalent setting

Job description

An opportunity has arisen to join our small friendly team in the Cardiac Investigations at Whittington Health NHS Trust, North London

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and knowledgeable Cardiac Physiologist to work as a Chief Cardiac physiologist specialising in Adult and Paediatric echocardiography.

You will have a degree in cardiac physiology or other relevant qualifications plus relevant experience in adult and paediatric echocardiography.

BSE or equivalent echo accreditation is highly desirable.

The cardiac investigations department is a small busy department and comprises of a team of cardiac physiologists providing full non-invasive diagnostic investigations to inpatients and outpatients across the wider community.

We currently run 2 adult echo lists per day, including stress echo, contrast and bubble echo, and have 2 portable machines for the inpatient lists. We also provide support to the Paediatric department and provide a paediatric echo list once a week, therefore paediatric experience is essential.

There is further scope for training in pacemaker follow up for the right candidate. The post holder will also be involved in training junior physiologist and medical staff. The trust is committed to funding CPD.

Over the past 15 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.

Main duties of the job

To conduct routine procedures include:

Echocardiography (performing and reporting adult and paediatric echos)

And from time to time conducting:

Electrocardiography

Holter monitoring including ECG, BP and Event recording.

Over the past 15 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 full 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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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.

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.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

• BSc cardiac physiology or equivalent
• BSE accredited or equivalant
• At least 2 years experience in NHS or equivalent setting

Skills & Abilities

• Recognise situations requiring medical involvement.
• Ability to analyse & interpret data to standard consummate with the grade of post
• Up to date knowledge in the preforming and reporting of adult and paediatric Echocardiography
• Knowledge in Paediatric echocardiography
• ILS certified

Knowledge & Experience

• Performing and reporting adult Echos
• ECG performance & interpretation
• Analysis of Holter recording
• Performing and reporting paediatric Echos.

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.

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearPer annum, (pro rata) including HCAS