Main area: Cardiac Physiology
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Aintree base, but cross site working)
Job ref: 287-AMED-75-25
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree University Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/04/2025 23:59
Echocardiographer / Highly Specialist Clinical Physiologist
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Echocardiographer or Highly Specialist Clinical Physiologist specialized in Echocardiography.
You will be based on the Aintree Hospital site but will provide services to Broadgreen and Royal Hospitals. Given the nature of the department, a flexible working pattern is required.
Applicants must be BSE accredited, have completed either a BSc in Healthcare Science or PGCert in Echocardiography. Applicants must have RCCP or be working towards RCCP registration [If an ETP candidate].
Main duties of the job
We are a busy and dynamic department providing Cardiology services to Liverpool and the surrounding regions.
1. To provide Echocardiography to inpatients and outpatients.
2. To perform Echocardiography independent to BSE dataset guidelines.
3. To report and analyse Echo results in line with BSE guidance.
4. To successfully line manage staff within your team with the assistance of the department manager.
5. To perform advanced techniques such as TOE, Exercise/ Dobutamine Echo, Bubble studies, Contrast studies, and more.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Performs echocardiograms autonomously on outpatient and inpatients to a high standard.
2. Reports complex clinical data obtained by echocardiography in a timely manner and produces an accurate report to BSE standards.
3. Practises the standards as outlined by the British Society of Echocardiography in both image acquisition and reporting.
4. Highlights abnormalities to the referring medic/clinical team.
5. Organise work at the start of every session by assessing mode of patient transport and any infection control precautions.
6. Act to the level of professional standards as outlined by the RCCP.
7. Aims to complete RCCP accreditation as soon as possible.
8. In order to obtain RCCP accreditation is willing to undertake training in other areas of clinical physiology as required.
9. Becomes compliant in advanced echocardiographic techniques including TOE, Bubble, Contrast and stress echocardiography.
10. Is ILS trained.
11. Liaise with Lead Clinical Physiologist to maintain appropriate level of resources.
12. Responsible for the safe use of all the equipment within the department and specific areas.
13. Recognise equipment faults and ensure details are documented and appropriate steps taken for their correction.
14. Responsible for maintaining own Continuing Professional and Personal development.
15. Ensure clean and tidy procedure environments are maintained.
16. Ensure up-to-date information bases for patient and other activities are maintained.
17. Self-motivation to ensure completion of individual and overall workloads.
18. Contribute to meetings with other staff relating to changes within the working area.
19. Assist with maintenance of local risk management policies.
20. Understands and uses Cardiac/Respiratory Information systems and their application within Cardiac/Respiratory Physiology.
21. Engage in audit, research and development relevant to the Cardio respiratory Department.
22. Comply with Trust and local policies.
23. To be responsible for the care of patients when performing examinations.
24. The post-holder will liaise with physiology, medical, technical, nursing, portering, domestic, clerical, administrative and other staff as necessary within this Trust.
25. The post involves direct contact with patients, relatives, and carers.
26. Communication with manufacturers is also necessary.
27. A responsible, professional relationship must be maintained at all times.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Undergraduate honours degree [1st or 2.1 class] in cardiac physiology or a relevant scientific subject.
* PG cert in Echocardiography or Clinical Physiology Degree.
* BSE accreditation.
* Will obtain RCCP accreditation as soon as possible.
* RCCP accreditation.
* ILS.
Experience
* Able to work autonomously performing and reporting echocardiograms.
* Has an understanding of the role of an Echocardiographer in healthcare and disease and its application in a healthcare setting.
Knowledge
* Ability to work autonomously in the planning and execution of their own work and under the guidance of their Departmental Supervisors.
* Knowledge acquired through study and experience to formulate appropriate advice and judgments, including clinical judgments involving facts or situations that impact on patients.
* Good understanding of ethics and professional practice, the NHS constitution and the importance of patient-centred care.
Skills
* Highly developed coordination skills with good dexterity and hand-eye coordination and those skills required for the performance of fine analytical techniques.
* Good IT skills and knowledge of common computing packages for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and databases.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both writing and speaking in the English language.
* Effective team worker.
* Good active listening skills to build rapport with the listener to encourage an open discussion.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisation's safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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