Key Responsibilities
1. Leadership and Management:
Provides leadership to the designated team. Investigates and responds to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents, and other significant events. Ensures the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies within the team. Takes responsibility for setting, monitoring, and seeking to continuously improve standards and the quality of care delivered to patients.
Promotes evidence-based practice, wherever possible. Implements policies and proposes changes to practice for own specialist area. Contributes to the development of specialist protocols for the specialist area. Engages users on service delivery and development.
2. Clinical Skills:
Acts in accordance with the Professional Code of Conduct. Maintains a safe working environment. Works as a specialist practitioner within established Trust and departmental policies. Acts as a source of expertise within their designated area.
Undertakes clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required and performs a broad range of highly specialist and complex investigations, providing accurate factual reports following analysis and interpretation of physiological data. Routinely undertakes assessment of both in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of cardio-respiratory investigations and uses own discretion to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation. Supervises and assesses the work of others within the designated team. Works within and towards national guidelines and directives, e.g., NICE, NSF.
Reports clinical incidents and adverse events to the Service Manager and external agencies as required. Provides clinical leadership and acts as a role model to the designated clinical physiology team by delivering high-quality care as an expert practitioner. Gives lead specialist advice as required. Applies and uses technology consistent with evidence of good practice.
Prepares and maintains specialist equipment, ensuring overall functionality and comparing overall performance with standardizations. Participates in Clinical Research Trials as directed by the lead Physician.
3. Analytical Skills:
Interprets and presents findings and outcomes of all diagnostic procedures undertaken. Makes recommendations based on valid interpretation of available information.
4. Teaching/Training/Assessing:
Takes responsibility for own continuing professional development, identifying own development needs in relation to current practice, and attending relevant courses. Applies own learning to the future development of service. Contributes to and supports the learning and development of others, accessing appropriate learning opportunities, and encouraging professional development. Actively participates in training of trainees and other staff, with specialist training for clinical staff, including planning and delivery of training activities.
Objectively assesses the work of individuals within areas of specialization, providing clear and constructive feedback, and agreeing courses of action to address issues, raising issues and related risks with relevant people.
5. Planning & Policy:
Evaluates own and teamwork, making constructive suggestions as to how services can be improved, seeking appropriate support for recommended/necessary changes, and implementing change.
6. Administrative:
Maintains accurate patient records. Inputs data, test results, and reports into the computerized system.
Ensures others are processing data accurately, with an appropriate level of detail and in the agreed format, making amendments and highlighting problems as necessary. Investigates and takes appropriate action when there are problems with processing data, identifying sources of error and taking appropriate action to implement change. Develops the structure of systems/databases enabling others to input data more effectively.
7. Communication:
Maintains accurate clinical and other records in accordance with Trust policy.
Ensures appropriate clinical record keeping within the designated team. Supports patients and their families, communicating sensitive information about routine and complex investigations, ensuring they receive the required information to enable them to participate in their care delivery. Communicates effectively with technical, nursing, medical, and allied health profession colleagues, providing technical advice relating to specific patient care. Communicates effectively with manufacturers and technical specialists.
8. Patient/Carer Contact:
Able to treat patients and relatives/carers with respect and consideration, maintaining emotional awareness in distressing circumstances. Communicates effectively with patients and relatives/carers, using verbal and non-verbal communication, ensuring understanding of what is being communicated, and taking into account patient communication problems, difficulty in understanding, stressful situations/aggression, and requirement for persuasion/reassurance.
9. Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults:
The postholder has a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
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