Job summary
Job Title: Highly Specialised Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist - Cardiac Rhythm Management
Hours per week: hours per week (4 day week Monday - Friday)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £43,742- £50,056 per annum (dependant on experience)
Closing Date: 20th December 2024
Interview Date: 8th January 2025 (subject to change)
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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Main duties of the job
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Cardiac Physiologist or Clinical Scientist to join our growing invasive team.
The post holder will be expected to work as an independent practitioner in to provide specialist skills and leadership within a team offering diagnostic angiography and pacing implant and follow up services.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
E ffective Open Communication
e x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To improve patient care by optimising pacemaker and ICD prescriptions with ongoing assessment of patient symptoms.
To ensure adherence to clinical guidelines and pathways of Physiologists undertaking device follow up and implantation.
To be responsible for the safe use of complex and expensive equipment.
To assess and adapt clinical techniques following assessment for each procedure to meet the individual needs of the patient.
To undertake duties as an autonomous practitioner.
To analyse and interpret data, using specialist theoretical knowledge and experience, to produce procedure results and reports, which contribute to patient diagnosis and treatment.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, full details are in the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualification and Professional Traing
Essential
1. BSC in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent APEL and ONC, plus HNC in Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement (MPPM)
2. Master level degree or equivalent qualification in Healthcare Science
3. Accreditation with IBHRE or HRUK
4. Part of the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology (MSCST)
Desirable
5. HCPC registered
6. Intermediate Life Support
7. Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
8. DClinSci or PhD
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
9. Extensive experience in a formal leadership role within an NHS Hospital Trust
10. Experience as an independent practitioner across a broad range of cardiac procedures with acquired highly specialist knowledge and experience in cardiac rhythm management devices
11. Evidence of clinical research and audit
12. Developing and implementing training packages
13. Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
14. Experience with governance, QA and/or complaint management
15. Experience of planning and developing specialist services including contributing toward local and national policies
Desirable
16. Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process
Skills and Abilities
Essential
17. Day-to-day local rota management
18. Comprehensive leadership and management abilities
19. Self-disciplined and self-motivated
20. Ability to manage and lead team in emergency situations
21. Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
22. IT competency
23. Evidence to demonstrate continual professional development
24. Excellent communication skills written and verbal
25. Excellent analytical and influencing skills
26. Able to prioritise workload as changes occur and to simultaneously focus on a particular task to meet set deadlines
27. To be able to assist patients to dress and undress
28. To be able to push, maneuver and assist patients to transfer from wheelchair to examining couch
29. To be able to deal sensitively with anxious patients and relatives attending the department for tests and to answer patient complaints/ queries.
30. To be able to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances
31. To be able to deal with and advise on personal and professional staff issues.
32. To be able to apply concentration in the interpretation and analysis of test data and results, together with a high level of concentration during patient test procedures.
33. To be able to concentrate for prolonged periods when producing service reports, business cases and planning.
Personal Qualities
Essential
34. Professional manner
35. To demonstrate the ability to lead and organise a team of staff
36. To be able to combine the demands of leading a team with the commitment to clinical input
37. Ability to form positive working relationships
38. To demonstrate the ability to facilitate changes in practice
39. Flexible and reliable
40. Good previous health record