Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiographer)
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Harefield Hospital Echocardiography Department
Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiographer) Band 7
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We are seeking to recruit a qualified echocardiographer to join our renowned and expanding department. We have a strong record in research and developing new clinical services and patterns of working. We have been instrumental in developing national standards for echocardiography and for developing the new clinical scientist discipline. At an individual level we focus on role development with physiologist-led valve clinics and our own TOE and bubble lists. Opportunities for continuing professional development are excellent and studying for postgraduate qualifications is encouraged. We are actively encouraging our echocardiographers to seek equivalence via the Academy for Healthcare Science and become registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as Clinical Scientists.
Main duties of the job
Our working days run from 8am until 5pm and Saturday working lists are routine. Successful candidates will be based at Harefield Echo Department.
This position would suit an echocardiographer with a good grounding in transthoracic echocardiography and an interest in developing their skills within a specialist area. The successful candidate will be expected to motivate, develop and lead a small team within their area, be responsible for specialist training and service development and to work closely with the Head of Echocardiography to achieve this. BSE accreditation or an equivalent qualification is essential.
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
This position is for a BSE accredited (or equivalent), independently reporting echocardiographer. The post holder will perform their own transthoracic echo lists and provide reports and expert opinions to other health professionals. The post holder will perform studies within a specialist area of echocardiography (e.g. stress echo, bubbles, or TOE) and will be expected to contribute to non-clinical projects as required (e.g. QA and audit, infection control, machine and IT maintenance or stock control).
Key Relationships
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of physiologists, echocardiographers, consultant cardiologists, junior doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, clerical and administrative staff and our porter. The post will involve training physiologists and doctors and the post holder will be expected to act as a role model and mentor to the trainees.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Perform transthoracic echocardiograms to a high standard in accordance with BSE guidelines and department minimum standards.
* Identify and advise when transthoracic echocardiography is insufficient to answer the clinical question and proactively suggest and arrange alternative/additional investigations.
* Produce an accurate and comprehensive report for each study.
* Ensure that personal knowledge base is current to reflect change in clinical echocardiography.
* Depending on previous experience or agreed internal training programme and sign off, perform specialist echo to a high standard as follows: Assist with transoesophageal echocardiograms, perform stress echocardiograms, perform 3D echocardiograms, perform contrast/bubble contrast echocardiography, perform complex dyssynchrony studies, perform complex adult congenital studies, perform research studies as required.
* To assist in protocol development and maintenance to agreed national, international or local standards.
* Teach physiologists, cardiology registrars, and general practitioners to BSE individual accreditation standard.
* Manage own workload and assist in managing the workload of other staff members when necessary.
* Use Trust and department software to analyse, report, and archive studies appropriately.
Person Specification
Experience
* Demonstrable practical experience of performing & reporting of echocardiograms.
* Knowledge and practical experience of at least one specialist area of echo e.g. 3D, bubbles, stress or TOE.
* Experience in leading a small project within your team e.g QA, audit or service review.
* Previous experience of clinical or academic teaching.
Skills
* Broad knowledge of echocardiography and multi vendor echo machines.
* Able to deliver teaching and training on complex investigations to other professional groups.
* Cannulation.
Knowledge
* Relevant BSc Cardiac physiology degree or BHF training.
* BSE accreditation or equivalent (e.g. EACVI or ASAR).
* ILS certification.
* Evidence of post graduate study in clinical or management area.
* HCPC registration as a clinical scientist.
* Accreditation in TOE, ACHD or stress echo.
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.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
£51,883 to £58,544 a year p.a inc. Outer London HCA
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