Employer: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Across All Trust Sites
Town: Prescot
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 04/12/2024
Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist - Echocardiography
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge?
An opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist – Echocardiography to join the Cardio-Respiratory Department.
The successful candidate will be an RCCP registered Physiologist with sufficient years of post-qualification experience. It is important that the candidate can demonstrate flexibility, good communication skills, and the ability to work as a team member.
This post is based in Southport & Ormskirk and requires that you work flexibly across all sites.
An Enhanced DBS Certificate with both the Adults’ and Children’s Barred Lists is required for this position.
Main duties of the job
* Provides comprehensive, unsupervised reports of a highly professional standard in a range of procedures.
* Uses clinical judgements to act on reports in an unsupervised way.
* Has highly specialised knowledge and skill in at least one specialist area and is responsible for the development and delivery of that service.
* Clinical supervision of testing in this area.
* Developing and implementing relevant policies and procedures.
* Producing costs for each procedure.
* Implementing staff training programs for all levels of staff.
* Peer evaluation of competency levels.
* Stock control and consumable costs in this area.
* Maintain optimal functioning and regular servicing of equipment.
* Initiation of research and audit programs to review services and monitor capacity.
* Provide regular updates to manager on service progress and re-design.
* A commitment to setting up new services and expanding the Physiologist role into areas traditionally covered by doctors.
* Deputise for other service leads in their absence.
* Participate in out of hours sessions when required.
* May be called upon to participate in a 24hr on-call emergency rota covering a range of invasive and non-invasive tests.
* During out of hours or on-call sessions, together with clinical responsibilities, the Physiologist will take on a level of managerial control of departmental issues.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Clinical Physiology or equivalent qualification/experience.
* RCCP Registration.
* ILS Qualification.
* MSCST/master’s level qualification/equivalent qualification/experience within a specialised field (BSE/NASPE/BPEG/ARTP).
* IT Qualification.
* ALS Qualification.
* Managerial Qualification.
Skills
* Good communication and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in addition to working independently.
* Ability to work in a pressurised environment using highly technical equipment safely, producing complex unsupervised reports.
* Ability to work with patients and provide high-quality care, imparting information, instruction, and results in a sensitive manner.
* Excellent organisational skills.
Knowledge & Experience
* Sufficient number of years post-qualification.
* Experience in a broad range of respiratory tests.
* Specialist knowledge in a range of respiratory tests.
* Supervision of staff.
* Participate in on-call/out of hours service.
* Managerial experience.
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. We encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is especially important to us; we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), and access to a range of NHS discounts.
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