Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
WAHT have an exciting opportunity for an 18-month fixed term full-time training post in Echocardiography. This is part of the Echocardiography Training Programme developed by the National School of Healthcare Science and funded by Health Education England. Successful candidates will be trained to perform and report adult transthoracic echocardiograms to BSE accreditation level 2 standard and awarded a Post-graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography. For more information, please see the NSHCS website: NSHCS Echocardiography Training Programme.
Main duties of the job
The Trainee Echocardiographer will be employed for a fixed term of 18 months during which time they will work through a programme of learning. Supported by their mentor and other senior BSE accredited staff, the Trainee Echocardiographer will be responsible for their own progression through the training programme, completing a mixture of work based competences and experience in NHS scientific departments, completing the learning outcomes as outlined in the Curriculum Library, undertaking the complementary academic Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography, and preparing for and completing the BSE Transthoracic Accreditation process. A major part of the training and development will take place within the hospital setting and is integrally linked to the knowledge and applied learning that forms part of the nationally recognised BSE accreditation programme. Post holders will also be expected to undertake mandatory training as deemed necessary by their host NHS Organisation.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
1. Best services for local people
2. Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
3. Best use of resources
4. Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities
You will be trained to perform Cardiac Ultrasound examinations to diagnose Cardiac abnormalities. To provide clinical interpretation and high technical expertise on Cardiac Ultrasound scans in accordance with the British Society of Echocardiography standards, guidelines and departmental protocols and policies.
Person Specification
Experience
* Previous NHS or patient facing experience.
* Previous NHS experience within a cardiology department.
Qualifications
* A 1st or 2:1 in either an undergraduate honours degree (including an integrated masters degree) in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject (examples include Pure or Applied Physics, Biology or Human Biology, or Sports Science if significant scientific content).
* An alternative or vocational qualification plus sufficient and relevant experience and appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills in cardiology, as evidenced by registration on the Academy for Healthcare Science Accredited Healthcare Science Practitioner Register, and approval from the relevant HEI.
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.
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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