Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St. George's Hospital Town London Salary £27,948 - £29,468 Per Annum including inner london HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/06/2024 23:59
Assistant Practitioner (Cardiac Physiology)
Band 3
Job overview
We are seeking a motivated Assistant Practitioner to join our non-invasive cardiac diagnostic team. The successful candidate's main site of work will be the St. George's, Tooting Hospital site.
The primary focus of the role will be to perform 12 lead ECGs and the fitting and removal of ambulatory ECG monitors, supporting the cardiac physiologists as required and to perform clinical administration and support the reception area (as required).
Main duties of the job
This post will work with a team of Cardiac Physiologists to support and provide a non-invasive diagnostic cardiology service. These tests include 12 lead electrocardiography (ECG), Exercise ECG stress tests, ambulatory ECG monitoring and event recorders. The services operates both a walk-in and pre-booked service.
Working for our organisation
With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the main duties and responsibilities with this role
Person specification
Experience
* Work Experience involving contact with people
* Some knowledge and experience of performing and/or interpreting ECGs
* Hospital or community care work experience or part-time employment
Qualifications
* 2 or more A levels in Science subjects or equivalent
* BSc degree in science or human physiology-related subject discipline or Foundation Degree of Science
Knowledge
* General understanding of the health service
Skills
* Demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills.
* Good inter-personal skills
* Knowledge of basic computer skills including use of mouse, keyboard and data entry
* Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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