Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
Town Blackpool
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 29/04/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage applications from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining a healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as part-time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is a tertiary cardiac provider for the people of Lancashire & Cumbria. The centre has a well-established invasive and non-invasive services covering a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services, these include:
Cardiac angiography & intervention, device implants & follow-ups, EP simple and complex, and Echocardiography. All these areas are constantly evolving and developing as new technologies are introduced.
Due to vacancy, an opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 6 Cardiac Physiologist in the Cardiac Investigations Unit. Candidates should have good experience in cardiology procedures and be willing to progress their career in either Pacing and Electrophysiology or Echocardiography.
We are looking for Physiologists who will relish the challenge of being part of the team that will be taking our department forward into the future. The post holder will possess a BSc in clinical physiology or equivalent and be looking to develop their knowledge and skills.
As a multidisciplinary department, the successful candidate will be expected to work unsupervised in most areas and develop in the field of their specialty. Candidates who may lack experience in some areas will be provided with training plans devised by our training manager to address their training needs.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Cardiac Physiologist, you will be required to work autonomously as a competent practitioner within the CIU department. Duties will include specialised cardiac investigations such as diagnostic and interventional cardiology, permanent pacemaker implants & follow-ups, and routine non-invasive investigations.
Participation in an out-of-hours on-call service for emergencies is an obligation for this post.
You will be expected to develop your knowledge & skills into a specialist area of cardiac rhythm management or echocardiography as part of this role.
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
* BSc Clinical Physiology or equivalent
* Active Membership of one of the following: British Cardiac Society(BCS), Society of Cardiological Technicians (SCST)
* Voluntary Registered with Register Cardiac Clinical Physiologists (RCCP)
* Immediate Life Support or Advanced Life Support (within last 12 months)
* IBHRE Exam in Pacing +/- EP and/or HRUK exam in Pacing/EP BSE Adult Proficiency Accreditation
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
* Competent to perform full range Invasive procedures
* Extensive post graduate experience in technical cardiology
* Competent to perform full range Non-Invasive procedures
* Good IT knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and database input.
* Basic knowledge in performing and reporting echocardiography
SKILLS AND ABILITY
* Keen to develop personally & professionally
* Ability to work accurately to a reasonable deadline
* Experience of teaching & supporting junior staff
* Ability to work autonomously
* Dynamic and enthusiastic
* Team worker
* Ability to work flexibly to complete tasks required
* Knowledge of national professional and NHS guidelines relating to service provision and quality.
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