Highly Specialist Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist-CRM

Highly Specialist Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist-CRM

Highly Specialised Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist - Cardiac Rhythm Management

37.5 hours per week (4 day week Monday - Friday)

Permanent

Closing Date: 2nd May 2025

Interview Date: 23rd May 2025

This post may close early due to a high number of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

Main duties of the job

• We seek a skilled and motivated Cardiac Physiologist or Clinical Scientist to join our growing invasive team.
• The post holder will be expected to work as an independent practitioner, providing specialist skills and leadership within a team offering diagnostic angiography, pacing implants, and follow-up services.
• This post may be offered to the right candidate as a training progressional role in band 6, with progression to band 7 once specific competence has been achieved. The candidate would be expected to undertake in-house training and suitable external training programmes and undertake suitable examinations to achieve CRM accreditation.

Job responsibilities

• To improve patient care by optimising pacemaker and ICD prescriptions with ongoing assessment of patient symptoms.
• To ensure adherence to clinical guidelines and pathways of Physiologists undertaking device follow up and implantation.
• To be responsible for the safe use of complex and expensive equipment.
• To assess and adapt clinical techniques following assessment for each procedure to meet the individual needs of the patient.
• To undertake duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To analyse and interpret data, using specialist theoretical knowledge and experience, to produce procedure results and reports, which contribute to patient diagnosis and treatment.

Person Specification

Qualification and Professional Training

• BSC in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent APEL and ONC, plus HNC in Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement (MPPM)
• Master level degree or equivalent qualification in Healthcare Science
• Accreditation with IBHRE or HRUK
• Part of the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology (MSCST)
• HCPC registered
• Intermediate Life Support
• Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
• DClinSci or PhD

Experience and Knowledge

• Extensive experience in a formal leadership role within an NHS Hospital Trust
• Experience as an independent practitioner across a broad range of cardiac procedures with acquired highly specialist knowledge and experience in cardiac rhythm management devices
• Evidence of clinical research and audit
• Developing and implementing training packages
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience with governance, QA and/or complaint management
• Experience of planning and developing specialist services including contributing toward local and national policies
• Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process

Skills and Abilities

• Day-to-day local rota management
• Comprehensive leadership and management abilities
• Self-disciplined and self-motivated
• Ability to manage and lead team in emergency situations
• Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
• IT competency
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal
• Excellent analytical and influencing skills
• Able to prioritise workload as changes occur and to simultaneously focus on a particular task to meet set deadlines
• To be able to assist patients to dress and undress
• To be able to push, maneuver and assist patients to transfer from wheelchair to examining couch
• To be able to deal sensitively with anxious patients and relatives attending the department for tests and to answer patient complaints/ queries.
• To be able to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances
• To be able to deal with and advise on personal and professional staff issues.
• To be able to apply concentration in the interpretation and analysis of test data and results, together with a high level of concentration during patient test procedures.
• To be able to concentrate for prolonged periods when producing service reports, business cases and planning.

Personal Qualities

• Professional manner
• To demonstrate the ability to lead and organise a team of staff
• To be able to combine the demands of leading a team with the commitment to clinical input
• Ability to form positive working relationships
• To demonstrate the ability to facilitate changes in practice
• Flexible and reliable
• Good previous health record

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.

£37,338 to £52,809 a year per annum (dependant on experience)